There's still the question of whether 8GB of memory is enough. These days, we'd say it's sufficient for any game you want to play, but there are definitely instances where you'll run into memory capacity issues. Not surprisingly, many of those come in games promoted by AMD, it's almost like AMD has convinced developers to target 12GB or 16GB of VRAM at maximum quality settings. But a few judicious tweaks to settings (like dropping texture quality a notch) will generally suffice.

MSI’s Gaming X Trio has proven itself to be quite the GPU model as it ran cool and quiet on both AMD and NVIDIA cards. Whether you used a 200W or a 350W card, it could handle it. This is what casts the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Suprim X in a good light, even before reviewing it. At the front, you’ll see a couple of slits between the fans that are dedicated to RGB lighting. The metal shroud surrounding the fans is a clean and metallic grey color. Ampere comes with the second-generation of NVIDIA's path-breaking RTX real-time raytracing technology that combines raytraced effects, such as reflections, shadows, lighting, and global-illumination, with conventional raster 3D graphics to increase realism. Ampere combines second-generation RT cores with third-generation Tensor cores that accelerate AI, and faster Ampere CUDA cores. While using the Gaming BIOS, the average temperature stays at just 66°C. With temperatures that low, you might assume that the fan curve would be pretty aggressive and result in very high noise levels. That isn’t the case here. Fans do jump up to 2000 RPM, but noise levels never exceed 37 dBA. As long as your case has clearance for 267mm x 112mm (L x W) with two expansion slots free it will be able to accommodate a Founders Edition RTX 3070 Ti. What brands of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti are available?It's not a great deal, however—I fear the days of manufacturers throwing pricing under the bus to screw with the competition are well and truly behind us. Priced more than the RX 6800 at launch and lumped right between the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, you pay what you might expect for the 3070 Ti's performance and possibly even a little more. I say that for obvious reasons: the graphics card market is anything but healthy today and finding any modern graphics card at MSRP is a struggle. That said, you will at least be able to find the RTX 3070 Ti for a brief moment in time at MSRP, which will inevitably end up as one of the cheapest prices for that graphics card you'll find for the foreseeable future. TORX Fan 4.0: A masterpiece of teamwork, fan blades work in pairs to create unprecedented levels of focused air pressure. Vereiste is op basis van een pc die is geconfigureerd met een Intel Core i9-10900K-processor. Afhankelijk van de systeemconfiguratie kan een lagere energiescore voldoende zijn.

Moving to the side, you will notice a long strip also dedicated to RGB. There is also Suprim and Geforce RTX branding which is RGB as well. There’s also a BIOS switch on the side of the GPU and the two 8-pin connectors. In memory terms, then, you have the speedier, smaller GeForce RTX 3070 Ti facing down the slower, more capacious Radeon RX 6800. The deciding factor is, of course, gaming performance, and once again there's plenty to talk about when comparing Nvidia Ampere and AMD RDNA 2. More on that in the performance section below. Importantly, though, these RT Cores are better suited for the task than AMD's equivalent Ray Accelerators, and that makes for a better ray tracing card in the RTX 3070 Ti than the Radeon RX 6800 by some margin. The RTX 3070 Ti's raw RT performance is actually superior to even the RX 6900 XT with 80 Ray Accelerators, although the rasterised performance of the RX 6900 XT will see it retain the performance lead in ray-traced games, as these blend both ray tracing and shader cores. DLSS often comes to the rescue of the RTX 3070 Ti, though. This feature is as much a boon as ever for GeForce RTX cards in supported games, although AMD will release something akin to the feature in FidelityFX Super Resolution later this month.The minimum required power supply for a RTX 3070 Ti is a 750W with 2x 8 pin PCIe connectors, although we do recommend a higher wattage supply for a comfortable overhead. What case is the NVIDIA GeForce 3070 Ti compatible with? Airflow Control: Don't sweat it, Airflow Control guides the air to exactly where it needs to be for maximum cooling. That's also two more RT Cores than the RTX 3070, although those don't count for a whole lot in ray-traced performance. The two perform near-enough identically in the DXR Feature Test. Nvidia told me the RTX 3070 Ti had one job to do: compete with the AMD Radeon RX 6800. It does just that, but it's not a comfortable win, nor is it the RX 6800 killer I had expected at first. Turning to the side, there’s a big opening, revealing the heatsink and a few of the copper pipes. Additionally, there’s Gigabyte branding on the side with colorful lighting.