RTX 3070 Delivers The Same Power As RTX 2080 Ti At Only $499?

Dhir Acharya - Oct 22, 2020

Photos show that the score of the RTX 3070 on GeekBench 4 implies the same power as the RTX 2080 Ti. But both of them are 32% weaker than RTX 3080.

Famous leaker TUM-APISAK recently posted a photo on Twitter showing the Xnxubd GeForce RTX 3070’s score on Geekbench 4, which registers around 350,000 points.

The Twitter leaker also shared the Geekbench score of the Xnxubd RTX 3080, all these data seem to come from Asus. To compare, RTX 3080-powered systems have scored 32% higher than those of running the RTX 3070. This means the RTX 3070 has similar power with the RTX 2080 Ti, which also has scored around 32% lower than RTX 3080.

Previously, users expected RTX 3070’s power to be the same or at least close to the RTX 2080 Ti’s power at a much lower price. Xnxubd Nvidia 2020 has pushed back the launch date of the RTX 3070 to October 29, after the launch date of AMD’s Big Navi, this could mean Nvidia is working on optimizing the driver or increasing the power for the RTX 3070.

In addition to the RTX 3070 8GB VRAM and RTX 3080 10GB VRAM, Nvidia may also introduce two more variants dubbed RTX 3080 20GB VRAM as well as RTX 3070 16GB VRAM. Next year, the tech giant will go back to using TSMC’s 7nm process on the RTX 3000 series GPUs, probably making their names a bit too confusing to remember.

Previously, Xnxubd Nvidia 2020 planned to release the RTX 3070 on October 15, but it decided to delay the launch to prepare a larger supply so more people can buy the GPU. The delay comes after Nvidia’s apology for the stock shortage following the launch of the RTX 3080 in September. The tech giant wasn’t prepared for such high demand for the GPU, which ended up sold out almost immediately.

On the other hand, the Xnxubd GeForce RTX 2080 Ti was launched on September 27, 2018, which became one of the most powerful graphics cards ever made. At the time, this was the only graphics card that could run true 4K gaming at 30 fps on average. It received a lot of power boosts compared with its predecessors RTX 1080 Ti and sibling RTX 2080.