At the end of last year, Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3070 gave us our first glimpse of the company’s GA104 chip, along with a nostalgically low launch price of £469 inc VAT. Like other Nvidia Ampere GPUs, it’s since fallen victim to stock shortages, speculation and insatiable demand, and the cheapest price we could find now was £800. That’s not far off double the original price, and only £65 less than the Ti version.
Unlike the RTX 3070 Ti, the original RTX 3070 has two streaming multiprocessors disabled, giving it a total of 5,888 stream processors, plus 46 RT cores for ray tracing, and it also has a slightly lower clock speed than the Ti. In addition, it lacks the Ti card’s GDDR6X memory, with its 8GB of standard
GDDR6 memory…