We dwell in a wierd time after we discover ourselves highlighting {that a} GPU being bought for simply $100 over MSRP, however right here we’re. Amazon has a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Ti 8GB on “sale” for $700. That is $150 off its present itemizing value.
The MSRP for an RTX 3070 Ti is $600, so that is technically a $100 markup, nevertheless it’s nonetheless the most affordable we have seen an RTX 3070 Ti go for in over a yr. Only some brief months in the past, related GPUs from numerous producers had been simply promoting for over $1,000 at retail.
The RTX 3070 Ti sits in a bizarre spot within the hierarchy of GPUs. It will crank out barely extra efficiency than your common RTX 3070 and goes toe-to-toe with AMD Radeon RX 5800 in most classes in line with our testing.
Although when you had been hoping for this to be a less expensive RTX 3080, you are out of luck. The 3080 nonetheless is probably the one GPU to offer the perfect bang in your buck when it comes to efficiency and price. However the RTX 3070 Ti is an effective card when you’re upgrading from an RTX-20 or RTX-10 sequence GPU. And, this card is in inventory. So there’s that.
You’ll need a reasonably beefy PSU to run this power-hungry GPU: one able to delivering at the least 850W is a secure guess. In the event you do not have already got a type of, think about that added expense earlier than shopping for this card.
Costs for graphics playing cards are inching nearer to pre-pandemic ranges each month, so the Nice GPU Scarcity would possibly really be ending. As you’ll be able to think about, inventory on these unhealthy boys runs out fairly quick, however restocks appear to occur extra steadily lately than they’ve over the previous two years.
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Jorge is a {hardware} author from the enchanted lands of New Jersey. When he is not filling the workplace with the odor of Pop-Tarts, he is reviewing all kinds of gaming {hardware} from laptops with the newest cell GPUs to gaming chairs with built-in again massagers. He is been masking video games and tech for almost ten years and has written for Dualshockers, WCCFtech, and Tom’s Information.
