Nvidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition Review

1. Introduction2. RTX 3070 Founders Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark Port Royal6. Control7. Death Stranding8. The Division 29. Far Cry New Dawn10. Gears 511. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint12. Metro Exodus13. Middle Earth: Shadow of War14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Shadow of the Tomb Raider16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Performance Summary (11 Game Average)18. Cost Per Frame Analysis19. RTX On - Control20. RTX On - Metro Exodus21. RTX On - Shadow of the Tomb Raider22. DLSS On - Control & Death Stranding23. Productivity: Blender & Octane24. Productivity: SPECviewPerf & V-Ray25. Clock Speed26. Temperatures27. Acoustics28. Power Consumption29. Performance Per Watt30. Overclocking31. Closing Thoughts32. View All Pages

Here we look at a small selection of productivity benchmarks, starting with Blender 2.90 and OctaneBench.

Blender rendering performance is strong for the RTX 3070. Using CUDA, it offers a huge 39% reduction in total render times compared to the RTX 2080 Ti, while it takes 26% longer than the RTX 3080. Using Optix instead of CUDA sees the 3070 reduce the overall render time by 35% when compared to the 2080 Ti.

As for Octane, render performance for the RTX 3070 with RTX Off is bang in line with the RTX 2080 Ti. The RTX 3070 does pull ahead when RTX is enabled, though, with its score increasing by 16%.

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