The GeForce RTX 3070 is a great high-performance value product. Upcoming competition aside, in today's market the RTX 3070 is as good as it gets in terms of cost per frame and even performance per watt.
The GeForce RTX 3070 is a great high-performance value product. Upcoming competition aside, in today's market the RTX 3070 is as good as it gets in terms of cost per frame and even performance per watt.
Boy it would really be a winner with a little more vram for 4K.
Remember VRAM is both the most power hungry and most expensive part of the card; it's not the easiest to just increase it without driving up costs and power draw.
Even then...tbh, if AMD released a slightly respun and updated Navi GPU to cover the sub $100 market that would be nice. Entry level cards like the 1030 and RX550 are imho severely lacking. That would be something like the 5500XT though.5700 xt only needs to go down to $336 to match 3070's price to performance
Unless you really like upgrading every year or two or you are really bottlenecked at 4K, just wait for the next gen cards or the Ti?super variants. Maybe they'll come with more VRAM. The 2080 is still a high end card.I currently have a RTX 2080 and wow, the 3070 presents itself as the easier upgrade path on almost every cost and performance metric. With that, I expect these to be even more rare than the 3080 when they hit they become available.
Boy it would really be a winner with a little more vram for 4K.
Not really. Higher video ram might just add 2fps in flight simulator in 4K very high (which does not run well anyway at those setting). It might boost Doom performance by little when using nightmare textures at 4K but this game runs over 60fps anyway (most people with 4K display will have 60hz anyway). Also, 3070 did beats radeon VII and 1080 Ti in both min and avg fps. Which means that fast GPU with 8GB is still better than slower GPU with big vram even if the game can use over 8GB