PNY GeForce RTX 3070 XLR8 Revel Epic-X RGB

[W1zzard]

The PNY GeForce RTX 3070 XLR8 Revel Epic-X RGB comes with one of the longest product names ever. That aside, our review shows that its cooler is better than what Gigabyte, Palit, and Zotac offer. Temperatures are only 66°C, and performance higher than the RTX 2080 Ti.

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[Anymal]

Wtf, cooler is from Palit/Gainward?

 

[moshpit]

"PNY has been making NVIDIA graphics cards for many years and are one of the top providers for NVIDIA Quadro and Tesla Professional graphics solutions."

You are indeed new to reviewing PNY cards. PNY is the ONLY (not "one of") provider of Quadro, Tesla, and Titan cards. Also, Founders Editions are made at PNY for Nvidia (at least in the US).

Also, having the 3090 version of this card shipped straight to my door from the PNY factory on launch day (shipped on launch day, in my hands a few days later), and being one of two people who were able to order one on launch day from PNY, I can tell you that it's a perfect reference card, exactly as Nvidia intends reference cards. In fact, when Nvidia has a first reference card made up, it's made at PNY for Nvidia. PNY is the first board design partner of Nvidia. When Nvidia needs a circuit board attached to their chips, it gets made first at PNY.

Lisette from PNY went above and beyond the call of duty in ensuring that I got a card, and all of my friends got cards in short order and near MSRP price. Unfortunately, that MSRP thing is gone now due to even PNY having to lift prices, sadly. I bought my 3090 at exactly $1499.99 from PNY when they still only costed that, 2nd day shipping was free. Lisette is still running the "Interest List" and people can get on it still, but it's no longer base MSRP and the wait can be up to a month now for your order to get taken. It used to be under 2 weeks, and for me it was launch day of the 3090 (I was a lucky case).

 

[Lew Zealand]

Sounds like this PNY cooler is miles better than the crap one on my PNY XLR8 GTX 1080 OC, which can barely manage to cool the GPU at 150W, much less the 180W the 1080 is nominally rated for or it's 216W power limit. And then there's the rattling fan...

 

[Supercrit]

The card's model name gave me an aneurysm.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

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Still can't buy them.

 

[moshpit]

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Still can't buy them.

Yes you can. Email lgalloza@pny.com and ask her to put you on the Interest List. The wait is longer now than it was before, but it should still be less than a full month wait. Used to be <2 weeks average up until 3060 Ti launched. Now it's longer, and price is higher, but still not stupid high. And is PNY direct, so pretty awesome to have it shipped straight from manufacturer.

Edit: Unless you're in South Africa, LOL! My bad, thought you were USA. The list is USA only, my mistake.

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Yes you can. Email lgalloza@pny.com and ask her to put you on the Interest List. The wait is longer now than it was before, but it should still be less than a full month wait. Used to be <2 weeks average up until 3060 Ti launched. Now it's longer, and price is higher, but still not stupid high. And is PNY direct, so pretty awesome to have it shipped straight from manufacturer.

Edit: Unless you're in South Africa, LOL! My bad, thought you were USA. The list is USA only, my mistake.

Well, I appreciate you trying to help me out Moshpit, I really need to replace my dying 660Ti and yes, with an RTX3070, I will upgrade my CPU in time.

 

[W1zzard]

You are indeed new to reviewing PNY cards. PNY is the ONLY (not "one of") provider of Quadro, Tesla, and Titan cards. Also, Founders Editions are made at PNY for Nvidia (at least in the US).

Thanks. When I wrote it I thought "note to self, aren't they the exclusive mfgr? check on that", and forgot about it. Review has been updated.

 

[Anymal]

Do PNY produce in USA and is the cooler from Palit/Gainward or for them or just a coincidence?

 

[Lew Zealand]

Yeah I was curious about this because I tried to find reviews of my PNY 1080 with the Palit or Gainward branding but nothing matches. Lulz the Palit and Gainward versions have better coolers.

 

[Anymal]

Visualy same cooler on gainward phoenix 3070

Even backplate and all sides.

 

[W1zzard]

Do PNY produce in USA and is the cooler from Palit/Gainward or for them or just a coincidence?

Nobody produces in the USA. From what I understand Palit produces all cards for PNY and Gainward, in .cn of course

 

[moshpit]

Yup, looks identical to my 3090 version as well...

I should note that temps and sound are very close to what Founders Edition reviews show, so as a RTX 3090 purchased at the lowest possible price one can be had for anywhere, $1499.99 is a mighty good deal. Sadly, cannot even get this deal direct from PNY anymore. I REALLY lucked out. Super long story how I lucked out, but short version is, I got a Golden Ticket

Nobody produces in the USA. From what I understand Palit produces all cards for PNY and Gainward, in .cn of course

That is no longer true. My card shipped straight from the New Jersey factory and new HQ. The new HQ and factory opened up in 2016. https://www.pny.com/company-footer/about-pny

 

[Anymal]

Golden ticket and some golden bars too.

 

[moshpit]

PNY's biggest factory where 3000 series cards are made:

100 JEFFERSON ROAD
PARSIPPANY, NJ 07054
United States

This is the exact shipping "from" address of the factory and HQ.

 

[Anymal]

TL,DR

• Impossible to find at normal pricing
• Sold out everywhere

 

[moshpit]

For the record, no, I am not a PNY employee, LOL! I just have built a strong relationship with them due to a TON of business I have brought in during the Ampere crisis. PNY implemented an Interest List due to a mistake they made and to make up for that mistake to me and one other person. The list was expanded beyond that and I sent dozens of people to PNY direct for cards purchased at MSRP with typically less than 2 weeks wait on the list.

Sadly though, demand has plunged that list into a month or longer wait, and the old prices no longer exist, MSRP is gone. PNY itself charges more than MSRP now. Not their fault totally though as component prices have continued to increase putting pricing pressure on GPUs from everybody. Lisette and Michelle are the two star ladies at PNY who treated me like a king and rolled out the red carpet for me.

 

[ERazer]

been a fun of ASUS for years but we all know cant find any card so i thought i give PNY a try, been using Quadro at work for years and never had issues, my 3090 has no issues and runs silent so i pretty happy so far.

got mine from a friend but still charged me at a premium but not so much like other scalpers.

 

[moshpit]

been a fun of ASUS for years but we all know cant find any card so i thought i give PNY a try, been using Quadro at work for years and never had issues so far my 3090 has no issues and runs silent so i pretty happy so far.

You have same card as me. LOVE IT! TOTAL BEAST!

Did you know that this card originally sold on launch day without the Revel name? There was no Revel or Uprising model names for RTX 3090 launch day, both cards had the EXACT same name and only way to tell them apart in ordering was the part number.

 

[ERazer]

You have same card as me. LOVE IT! TOTAL BEAST!

Did you know that this card originally sold on launch day without the Revel name? There was no Revel or Uprising model names for RTX 3090 launch day, both cards had the EXACT same name and only way to tell them apart in ordering was the part number.

no idea, i was just happy to get one without costing me arm and a leg, well half a leg.

 

[moshpit]

no idea, i was just happy to get one without costing me arm and a leg, well half a leg.

LOL, no joke. I was outright lucky as hell to get my order for one in on launch day and it only happened cause PNY's site screwed up the week before during RTX 3080 launch day, I reported the screw up and my inconvenience with the screw up, and PNY made it right by calling me on 3090 launch day directly and taking my order for the card over the phone on launch day.

According to Lisette, my 3090 is the first card sold directly by PNY to an end user, but not anywhere near the first made. Apparently the majority of cards went to Newegg, Amazon, and Best Buy and PNY only had 2 cards on launch day to sell, so me and one other guy got them. PNY made the mistake of offering the 3080 on it's site during that launch and it almost crashed them hard. I lucked out and benefited from that mixed up series of events... and then a ton of my friends have been able to get in on it too until recently. Sadly, the Interest List trick isn't what it used to be anymore.

 

[btarunr]

You are indeed new to reviewing PNY cards. PNY is the ONLY (not "one of") provider of Quadro, Tesla, and Titan cards. Also, Founders Editions are made at PNY for Nvidia (at least in the US).

PNY isn't the only provider of Quadro worldwide, there are others such as Leadtek and ELSA. Workstation makers like Dell and HP directly source NVTTM cards from NVIDIA, and sometimes these cards are sold as "spares" in the open market under the OEM's main marquee (Dell/HP). Also, Founders Edition (NVTTM/NVIDIA Time to Market) cards aren't made "at PNY." They're designed by NVIDIA and made by various foundries tied to NVIDIA. PNY is one of the authorized board partners for Quadro, Tesla, and now A100. NVIDIA is increasingly selling Quadros and A100 compute products directly.

 

[moshpit]

PNY isn't the only provider of Quadro worldwide, there are others such as Leadtek and ELSA. Workstation makers like Dell and HP directly source NVTTM cards from NVIDIA, and sometimes these cards are sold as "spares" in the open market under the OEM's main marquee (Dell/HP). Also, Founders Edition (NVTTM/NVIDIA Time to Market) cards aren't made "at PNY." They're designed by NVIDIA and made by various foundries tied to NVIDIA. PNY is one of the authorized board partners for Quadro, Tesla, and now A100. NVIDIA is increasingly selling Quadros and A100 compute products directly.

Re-Read my post, I said USA (your own quote of my post showed my statement saying "at least in the US"). Also, according to Lisette AT PNY, you are wrong about Founders Editions. At least for the US, they are made at PNY, per a PNY employee, Sales Manager to be specific. In fact, everything I said was 100% correct and your correction was not. I confirmed this directly WITH PNY themselves. You are welcome to contact PNY, Lisette or Michelle and ask yourself.

I stand by my statements in full as what PNY themselves are saying. Unless you know more than PNY? I do doubt that.

Edit: Furthermore, PNY supplies HP and Dell with many OEM needs, Nvidia makes no cards... What are you smoking? You realize Nvidia is fabless, right? Nvidia designs it and sends any board design to their board partners, which in the US is PNY. Nvidia makes no cards themselves, I don't know where you are getting that from. PNY makes most of the OEM market's cards in the US for Geforce needs.

 

[kaktus1907]

Hi, great review like always. Do you have any measurements for the thermalpad thickness on the memory chips? Do you think 1mm thickness is enough?