News Asus RTX 3070 TUF Gaming OC Review: Quietly Competent

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The Asus RTX 3070 TUF Gaming is for those who want a card that just works, and forget about all the fancy extras.

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[bigdragon]

This looks like a solid product. A little bit more performance for a higher cost and somewhat more availability over the FE cards. I also like that it's not bling'ed out with RGB and a gaudy design. This Asus card would make a good upgrade. The benchmarks show good 1440p performance.

I tried to buy this specific card so many times in December and January. I could get it in carts on different sites, but never actually checkout with it.

 

[King_V]

Ok, not really related to the review per se, and I'm not sure if this is just me, or if it affects other people, but the header of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Specifications Comparison chart - having a dark background with light text is nice.

But having that light text with that sort of 3D-ish effect made it look blurry to me - as in, if I looked at it for more than 2 or 3 seconds I could feel a headache coming on. Blurry where my eyes were trying to do something to clear it up, but obviously couldn't.

I like the "dark mode" table header, but I think that 3D effect would only be good for a light background with dark text. As it is, it's physically painful to look at.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Ok, not really related to the review per se, and I'm not sure if this is just me, or if it affects other people, but the header of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Specifications Comparison chart - having a dark background with light text is nice.

But having that light text with that sort of 3D-ish effect made it look blurry to me - as in, if I looked at it for more than 2 or 3 seconds I could feel a headache coming on. Blurry where my eyes were trying to do something to clear it up, but obviously couldn't.

I like the "dark mode" table header, but I think that 3D effect would only be good for a light background with dark text. As it is, it's physically painful to look at.

I actually noticed that the other day. The developers for our web front-end have apparently changed the way tables are rendered, so that there's now a gray dropshadow or whatever. It's ... well, let's be frank ("Hi, I'm Frank...): It's stupid. So many things about the way Future sites handle tables is stupid -- don't get me started. We can't control cell width, backgrounds, fonts, or anything else. It's all just left up to whatever the devs decided. Just skip the table and focus on my pretty (ugly) charts. 🙃

 

[VforV]

$650 MSRP for a xx70 class card and (some) people are considering that price ok... this is getting ridiculous and sad at the same time. Pffft...
Even more ridiculous is that this card is more like $800 in shops and again some will buy it even at that price.

 

[bigdragon]

$650 MSRP for a xx70 class card and (some) people are considering that price ok... this is getting ridiculous and sad at the same time. Pffft...
Even more ridiculous is that this card is more like $800 in shops and again some will buy it even at that price.

Agreed. I was trying to buy it when retailers were listing this card at $550 - $570. Anything above that makes the card no longer worth the asking price.

 

[Darkmatterx]

I actually noticed that the other day. The developers for our web front-end have apparently changed the way tables are rendered, so that there's now a gray dropshadow or whatever. It's ... well, let's be frank ("Hi, I'm Frank...): It's stupid. So many things about the way Future sites handle tables is stupid -- don't get me started. We can't control cell width, backgrounds, fonts, or anything else. It's all just left up to whatever the devs decided. Just skip the table and focus on my pretty (ugly) charts. 🙃

Geez, where to start... lol

Mmmm dropshadows that nobody asked for on tables/charts, that are supposed to be super clean to make them easy to read. Niiiiice...

We can't control cell width, backgrounds, fonts, or anything else. It's all just left up to whatever the devs decided.

WTF? (I actually took the time to refresh my memory on the forum rules before typing that. lol)

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Geez, where to start... lol

Mmmm dropshadows that nobody asked for on tables/charts, that are supposed to be super clean to make them easy to read. Niiiiice...

WTF? (I actually took the time to refresh my memory on the forum rules before typing that. lol)

The dropshadow is only on the HTML table header -- a CSS setting that was made by the web devs. I make the charts and think they're pretty readable, but if you don't like them and have suggestions on how to improve their look, I'm open to suggestions. (They do need to look somewhat attractive as well, so high-contrast color blind aware design that looks bad isn't really something we want. Sorry.) As for the HTML, though, it is fully out of the hands of Tom's Hardware editors. We could try to raise a stink if something is really bad (and we do on occasion), but the [waves hands] Powers That Be [/wavy hands] mostly decide how the front-end should look. Which of course applies to all the ads.

 

[Darkmatterx]

I don't think they look bad actually, I was just commenting on the lack of control you have.

One thing I will say though, is that, for me at least, I found the graphs and such somewhat hard to read (the actual data) with some of them. I know you can click to enlarge, but most just want to flip and keep reading.

My only caveat is that I'm on a 4K monitor. It's set to 150DPI in Windows 10, but maybe that's not enough.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

I don't think they look bad actually, I was just commenting on the lack of control you have.

One thing I will say though, is that, for me at least, I found the graphs and such somewhat hard to read (the actual data) with some of them. I know you can click to enlarge, but most just want to flip and keep reading.

My only caveat is that I'm on a 4K monitor. It's set to 150DPI in Windows 10, but maybe that's not enough.

The standard images are 1920x1080, but our CMS and front-end limits the size based on the width of the device or browser window. There's actually an optimal width where the side bars disappear and you get more readable area. Probably around 1000 pixels? More than that and you get the large sidebar and a maximum image size of I think 600 pixels wide. Less than that and you're just shrinking things.