Nvidia has announced the RTX 3070, a $499 graphics card that is faster than a 2080 Ti for far less cash.

With 20 shader TFLOPS, 40 RT TFLOPS, and 163 Tensor TFLOPS, the RTX 3070 is specced for high-end gaming. That's courtesy of the Ampere graphics architecture, and a whopping 5,888 CUDA cores. It's also equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

That's a touch less than the RTX 2080 Ti, which comes with 11GB of GDDR6 memory. However, according to Nvidia, that won't hamper its performance. The chipmaker reports performance somewhere in the ballpark of the RTX 2080 Ti, and significantly faster than the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Super.

You can check out the full RTX 3070 design above, complete with new 12-pin power connector.

30-Series confirmed specs

Graphics Card Name RTX 3090                 RTX 3080                 RTX 3070

GPU Name                 Ampere GA102-300 Ampere GA102-200 Ampere GA104-300

Process Node                 Samsung 8N                 Samsung 8N                 Samsung 8N

CUDA Cores                 10496                         8704                         5888

Boost Clock                 1700 MHz                 1710 MHz                 1730 MHz

Memory Capacity         24 GB GDDR6X         10 GB GDDR6X          8 GB GDDR6

Memory Bus                 384-bit                         320-bit                          256-bit

Bandwidth                 936 GB/s                     760 GB/s                          512 GB/s

Memory Speed        19.5 Gbps                         19 Gbps                         16 Gbps

TDP                         350W                         320W                         220W

Price                         $1,499                         $699                         $499

Release date September 24                                 September 17                 October

The RTX 3070 will be available for $499 this October, which is a little later than the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090—announced for September 17 and September 24 respectively.

source - pcgamer