GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Gaming OC 8G, 8GB GDDR6X, 2x HDMI, 2x DP (GV-N307TGAMING OC-8GD)

NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3070 Ti has launched earlier this month to augment its RTX 30-series "Ampere" graphics card family, particularly as it faced unexpected competition from rival AMD in the high-end with the Radeon RX 6000 series "Big Navi" graphics cards. The RTX 3070 Ti is designed to fill a performance gap between the RTX 3070 and RTX 3080, letting NVIDIA better compete with the RX 6700 XT and RX 6800, which posed stiff competition to the RTX 3070. Cards from this segment are expected to offer maxed-out gaming at 1440p with raytracing enabled while retaining the ability to play at 4K UHD with reasonably good settings.

'Moody' is the worst to describe the price level we're dealing with, see we like the 3070 Ti as a whole, as a product, and for its performance. Gigabyte did a really nice job with the Gaming OC model. However, the conundrum is the price, dragging it all down. We're talking about a 2560x1440 resolution targeted graphics card, now costing likely 699 USD or more. When you blindly stare at the marginal increase of 256 Shader cores you might feel indifferent in the fact that the product would not make enough difference. NVIDIA did make the right call to move the GDDR6X though, the overall performance is there as the older 3070 memory was somewhat bandwidth limited. We're just not sure it makes a substantial enough differential. It turns out that the reconfigured product yields suitable numbers, especially in the WQHD resolution domain where this card is targeted at. 8GB however is going to become more troublesome in Ultra HD, albeit that's still a relativistic statement to make as this card is not aimed at that monitor resolution. As an overall package of hard- and software the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti performs well on all fronts, performance, cooling, and acoustics as a dual BIOS option. Gigabyte did most things right, even manually tweaking brings on great results. The big enigma will remain to be availability and pricing. Acoustics are debatable at default OC mode as we hit 41~42 DBa, the silent mode is extremely comfortable at hardly any performance loss. We recommend that BIOOS setting TBH. The cooling performance itself remains excellent even in silent mode. So a desktop gaming graphics card pur sang, this product is very satisfying and gratifying and definitely a recommended product. We're not granting awards as the pricing and availability will likely be totally off.