Tuesday, September 8th 2020
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition Pictured in the Flesh
Here's one of the first clear pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition graphics card pictured in the flesh (that isn't an NVIDIA press-shot or render). A PC enthusiast in China with access to Founders Edition cards of all three RTX 3000 series cards announced on September 1, posted a family shot, which provides a nice size comparison.
The RTX 3070 Founders Edition is noticeably shorter than the RTX 3080 FE. Both cards are dwarfed by the RTX 3090 FE. Unlike the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, the RTX 3070 FE uses a more conventional approach to air-flow, with both of its cards on the obverse side of the card, even through the second fan still pushes some of its airflow through the PCB, through a partial cutout. All three cards use the 12-pin Molex MicroFit 3.0 power connector. The previous generation flagship RTX 2080 Ti is the butt of gamer memes thanks to the RTX 3070, as NVIDIA advertised it as being faster than the RTX 2080 Ti at half its price of $499 (starting price). This announcement has forced some RTX 2080 Ti owners to dump their cards on Ebay at throwaway prices.
Source:
David Eneco (Twitter)
The RTX 3070 Founders Edition is noticeably shorter than the RTX 3080 FE. Both cards are dwarfed by the RTX 3090 FE. Unlike the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, the RTX 3070 FE uses a more conventional approach to air-flow, with both of its cards on the obverse side of the card, even through the second fan still pushes some of its airflow through the PCB, through a partial cutout. All three cards use the 12-pin Molex MicroFit 3.0 power connector. The previous generation flagship RTX 2080 Ti is the butt of gamer memes thanks to the RTX 3070, as NVIDIA advertised it as being faster than the RTX 2080 Ti at half its price of $499 (starting price). This announcement has forced some RTX 2080 Ti owners to dump their cards on Ebay at throwaway prices.
50 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition Pictured in the Flesh
2070 is practically 3050 already.
Not what you are probably wanting as a buyer, mind.
Of course one possibility is that they use these to "claim" that their products have a certain price when in actual fact you never really see that in the real world.
seems they used this card instead of hammer; probably the new testing requirements ......
Until then, I think its a 'best case, might reach similar perf' scenario while the average perf is still some 10% lower. Which is still pretty good.
This is what AMD still fails so hard at. They think their ref cooler is just that, a product showing the world they have one, hopefully selling a few of them until AIBs can get their own versions out. They basically just release the chip and PCB, put a radial fan on it and hope things work out for the best. We know how that went.
Nvidia announcement day is usually a day where the company hijacks front pages entirely with a massive number of AIB announcements all presenting their versions of multiple SKUs. This is the case since Nvidia developed their NVTTM model/cooler introduced with the Titan - from the 700 series onward it was like this.