Packaging

The Card

The Palit RTX 3070 JetStream is mostly black, with some white text on the back and front. The cooler shroud is made from plastic, while the backplate is out of metal.


Dimensions of the card are 30.5 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 1252 grams.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity options include three standard DisplayPort 1.4a and one HDMI 2.1. The DisplayPort 1.4a outputs support Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2a, which lets you connect 4K displays at 120 Hz and 8K displays at 60 Hz. Ampere can drive two 8K displays at 60 Hz with just one cable per display.

Ampere is the first GPU to support HDMI 2.1, which increases bandwidth to 48 Gbps to support higher resolutions, like 4K144 and 8K30, with a single cable. With DSC, this goes up to 4K240 and 8K120. NVIDIA's new NVENC/NVDEC video engine is optimized to handle video tasks with minimal CPU load. The highlight here is added support for AV1 decode. Just like on Turing, you may also decode MPEG-2, VC1, VP8, VP9, H.264, and H.265 natively, at up to 8K@12-bit.

The encoder is identical to Turing. It supports H.264, H.265 and lossless at up to 8K@10-bit.


Unlike the NVIDIA Founders Edition card that uses the new 12-pin power input, Palit sticks to industry standard PCIe power inputs. Together with the PCIe slot, this 8+8 power configuration is specified to supply up to 375 W.


This dual-BIOS switch lets you toggle between the default BIOS (position 1) and a quiet BIOS that runs lower fan speeds, but also lower clocks.


You may connect other RGB circuitry to this ARGB header.


The GeForce RTX 3070 does not support SLI. Only the RTX 3090 does, and it has very limited SLI support.

Teardown

Palit's main heatsink provides cooling for all important components on the graphics card: GPU, memory, and VRM.


The backplate is made out of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.