On Tuesday I took a look at the new RTX 3070 Founders Edition as a look at Nvidia’s new Ampere-based GPU ahead of today's launch. Well in addition to the launch, today is also when the embargo drops for aftermarket RTX 3070’s and I’m lucky enough to have the RTX 3070 XC3 Black from EVGA on hand to check out. The RTX 3070 Founders Edition performed well, but today I’m excited to see what an overclock and a different cooler can do. Especially with EVGA going with a more traditional full-length PCB and cooler here over the short PCB that the Founders Edition had to support their unique blow-through design.
Product Name: EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Black
Review Sample Provided by: EVGA
Written by: Wes Compton
Amazon Affiliate Link: HERE
|
Specifications |
|
|
Boost Clock |
1725 MHz |
|
Memory Clock |
14000 MHz Effective |
|
CUDA Cores |
5888 |
|
Bus Type |
PCIe 4.0 |
|
Memory Detail |
8192MB GDDR6 |
|
Memory Bit Width |
256 Bit |
|
Memory Bandwidth |
448 GB/s |
|
LED Logo |
ARGB |
|
Dimensions |
Height: 4.38 in - 111.15 mm Length: 11.23 in - 285.37mm Width: 2.2 Slots |
|
Display Connections |
3x DisplayPort 1x HDMI 2.1 |
|
Features |
EVGA iCX3 Cooling Adjustable ARGB LED Built for EVGA Precision X1 2nd Gen Ray Tracing Cores 3rd Gen Tensor Cores PCI Express® Gen 4 Microsoft DirectX® 12 Ultimate GDDR6 Graphics Memory NVIDIA DLSS NVIDIA® GeForce ExperienceTM NVIDIA G-SYNC® NVIDIA GPU BoostTM Game Ready Drivers Vulkan RT API, OpenGL 4.6 DisplayPort 1.4a, HDMI 2.1 HDCP 2.3 VR Ready |
|
Requirements |
650 Watt or greater power supply. PCI Express, PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0 or PCI Express 4.0 compliant motherboard with one graphics slot. Two available 8-pin or 6+2pin PCIe power dongles Windows 10 64bit |
|
Warranty |
3-years |
So specification wise the EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Black is the same as the Founders Edition. To confirm that I did what I always do and ran GPUz. There I could confirm the memory and GPU clocks match the specifications. I also do this so I can document the BIOS version used and the driver I tested with which btw is the pre-launch version 456.96 provided by Nvidia.
