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This is... pretty promising. Bear in mind that this is from Nvidia, as TH pointed out. On the other hand, games haven't been optimized for it yet, drivers, etc.

I wonder why the 2080Ti was slightly faster in Control?
 

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Who cares, there won't actually be any of these cards available at launch anyway. They only did the 30 series launch when they did so they could make sure they beat AMD projected dates. Typical Nvidia BS
 
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I'll get one several months later and scalpels can have 5 each one of them. I just don't know what they going to do with them in the end :)
 
This is... pretty promising. Bear in mind that this is from Nvidia, as TH pointed out. On the other hand, games haven't been optimized for it yet, drivers, etc.

I wonder why the 2080Ti was slightly faster in Control?

Yeah I'm not sure I found it very strange. Especially with RTX enabled, it should be faster. I suspect they were not using DLSS and as a result, the 8GB frame buffer was being maxed out because ray tracing will use more vram vs regular lighting techniques.

However, DLSS should significantly reduce vram consumption, since you're reducing the render resolution by more than 2x, so this should not be a problem at all if you use DLSS. Running Control on my RTX 2060 Super with everything maxed out at 3440x1440 with DLSS at 720P (performance mode) i couldn't get my vram usage above 6GB.
 
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On average, the RTX 3070 was 8% faster than the 2080 Ti...
Keep in mind, that's not an average for gaming performance, but for a mix of games, rendering software and the TimeSpy benchmark, and the rendering software is clearly throwing off the results. If we ignore the rendering software, that works out to only about a 3% difference. And of course, half of those games have RTX and DLSS upscaling active, and we know from reviews of the other Ampere cards that Doom Eternal is a major outlier not indicative of typical performance in other games. So, it looks like, on average, the 3070 will likely tend to be slightly slower than a 2080 Ti in most of today's games. With future games heavily utilizing RT it might manage to be slightly faster, but the Control results indicate that's not necessarily a given for AAA titles heavily utilizing RT effects.

Yeah I'm not sure I found it very strange. Especially with RTX enabled, it should be faster. I suspect they were not using DLSS and as a result, the 8GB frame buffer was being maxed out because ray tracing will use more vram vs regular lighting techniques.

However, DLSS should significantly reduce vram consumption, since you're reducing the render resolution by more than 2x, so this should not be a problem at all if you use DLSS. Running Control on my RTX 2060 Super with everything maxed out at 3440x1440 with DLSS at 720P (performance mode) i couldn't get my vram usage above 6GB.
Actually, they were in fact using DLSS upscaling for all of the RT games listed. According to the fine print at the bottom of the chart...

Game performance measured at 1440p, highest game settings, i9. RTX ON is RT+DLSS.
 
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Guys, please don’t buy the marketing on this. If you noticed in the chart, Nvidia stuck several rendering applications in there because Ampere rt cores provide a massive boost over Turing for that function. And the very few games they showed are a best case scenario for the 3070.

On average in gaming, assuming no VRAM limitations come into play, the 3070 will be 15-25% SLOWER than the 2080Ti. Think of it this way:

  • Nvidia claims 3070 is 8% faster than 2080Ti.
  • But we know the 3080 24% faster than the 2080Ti in actual gaming (average of 15 popular games, techpowerup)
  • We know that The 3080 has 50% more cores than the 3070
  • We also know the 3080 has 60% more memory bandwidth than the 3070

So if, for example, the 2080Ti gets 100fps, the 3080 gets 124fps. And since the performance of the 3080 is AT LEAST 50% higher than the 3070 (due to having 50% more CUDA cores and 60% more bandwidth), that means we can extrapolate the performance of the 3070 to be on average no higher than 124/1.5 = 82 FPS. It’ll likely be even worse than that because the ratio of memory bandwidth to CUDA cores is even worse on the 3070. But we’ll stick to the best case scenario. So the 3070 will be 18% slower than the 2080Ti. Or...the 2080Ti will be 21% faster than the 3070.

The numbers will be a bit higher for the 3070 in RT bound situations and lower in VRAM limited situations. But please don’t buy into this marketing garbage.
 
Keep in mind, that's not an average for gaming performance, but for a mix of games, rendering software and the TimeSpy benchmark, and the rendering software is clearly throwing off the results. If we ignore the rendering software, that works out to only about a 3% difference. And of course, half of those games have RTX and DLSS upscaling active, and we know from reviews of the other Ampere cards that Doom Eternal is a major outlier not indicative of typical performance in other games. So, it looks like, on average, the 3070 will likely tend to be slightly slower than a 2080 Ti in most of today's games. With future games heavily utilizing RT it might manage to be slightly faster, but the Control results indicate that's not necessarily a given for AAA titles heavily utilizing RT effects.


Actually, they were in fact using DLSS upscaling for all of the RT games listed. According to the fine print at the bottom of the chart...

Ah thanks for that.

Yeah I agree HyperMatrix, these results are purely from nvidia, and like the 3080 and 3090, i highly doubt the 2080 Ti will be slower than the 3070 in almost everything. The best-case scenario we're probably going to get is both cards matching performance equally (which I'm fine with, that still makes the 3070 a good card for $500). That explains the Control graph too. I don't really buy that the 2080 Ti won purely on tensor cores, because the 3070 comes with 3rd generation tensor cores which are faster than the 2nd gen ones in the 2080 Ti. It's probably a mix of other stuff as well.
 
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Ah thanks for that.

Yeah I agree HyperMatrix, these results are purely from nvidia, and like the 3080 and 3090, i highly doubt the 2080 Ti will be slower than the 3070 in almost everything. The best-case scenario we're probably going to get is both cards matching performance equally (which I'm fine with, that still makes the 3070 a good card for $500). That explains the Control graph too. I don't really buy that the 2080 Ti won purely on tensor cores, because the 3070 comes with 3rd generation tensor cores which are faster than the 2nd gen ones in the 2080 Ti. It's probably a mix of other stuff as well.
I’ve literally looked over dozens of reviews on the 3080 and 3090. There’s a reason Nvidia had to sneak in SEVERAL rendering benchmarks in their performance graphs because the rendering performance of Ampere is far higher than Turing. They didn’t do this with their 3080 benches. Look up the techgage 3080 review to see the huge difference between rendering performance between the cars and you’ll see why Nvidia pumped this chart full of them.

the 3070 will absolutely not match the 2080ti. You may get lucky in a couple games under very specific scenarios. But If it could match it, it means the 3080 would have to be at least 50% faster than the 2080Ti. Which we know it isn’t.
 

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Guys, please don’t buy the marketing on this. If you noticed in the chart, Nvidia stuck several rendering applications in there because Ampere rt cores provide a massive boost over Turing for that function. And the very few games they showed are a best case scenario for the 3070.

On average in gaming, assuming no VRAM limitations come into play, the 3070 will be 15-25% SLOWER than the 2080Ti. Think of it this way:

  • Nvidia claims 3070 is 8% faster than 2080Ti.
  • But we know the 3080 24% faster than the 2080Ti in actual gaming (average of 15 popular games, techpowerup)
  • We know that The 3080 has 50% more cores than the 3070
  • We also know the 3080 has 60% more memory bandwidth than the 3070
So if, for example, the 2080Ti gets 100fps, the 3080 gets 124fps. And since the performance of the 3080 is AT LEAST 50% higher than the 3070 (due to having 50% more CUDA cores and 60% more bandwidth), that means we can extrapolate the performance of the 3070 to be on average no higher than 124/1.5 = 82 FPS. It’ll likely be even worse than that because the ratio of memory bandwidth to CUDA cores is even worse on the 3070. But we’ll stick to the best case scenario. So the 3070 will be 18% slower than the 2080Ti. Or...the 2080Ti will be 21% faster than the 3070.

The numbers will be a bit higher for the 3070 in RT bound situations and lower in VRAM limited situations. But please don’t buy into this marketing garbage.
CUDA cores don't come anywhere close to scaling linearly. 3090 has 20% more CUDA cores than 3080, and quite often is about 10% faster than the 3080. If we use only 50% scaling for CUDA cores, the 3070 would pretty much be in a dead heat with the 2080ti. On average, in non-ray tracing titles, the 3070 will probably be single digits behind the 2080ti. Which is still a great showing for a $500 card. In 2 years, when Nvidia is getting ready to release Hopper, I wouldn't be surprised if driver optimizations and future titles making better use of the architecture has the 3070 8% ahead of the 2080ti.
 
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CUDA cores don't come anywhere close to scaling linearly. 3090 has 20% more CUDA cores than 3080, and quite often is about 10% faster than the 3080. If we use only 50% scaling for CUDA cores, the 3070 would pretty much be in a dead heat with the 2080ti. On average, in non-ray tracing titles, the 3070 will probably be single digits behind the 2080ti. Which is still a great showing for a $500 card. In 2 years, when Nvidia is getting ready to release Hopper, I wouldn't be surprised if driver optimizations and future titles making better use of the architecture has the 3070 8% ahead of the 2080ti.

this is incorrect. The reason for the performance difference between the 3080 and 3090 is that the 3090 has 20.5% more cores but only 9% more TDP available to it. The higher end cards with a higher TDP do indeed maintain a 20% performance lead.

The 3070 will be unable to clock significantly higher than the 3080. I mean the boost clocks are already only 15MHz higher I believe. And even with the 3080 we see that memory overclocking provides more gains than the core clock. And with how limited the bandwidth on the 3070 is, it’s in for a world of trouble. Nvidia knows this. That’s why all the rendering benchmarks were used to artificially inflate its performance numbers.

The 3070 is a terrible bargain compared to the 3080.
 

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what happened to your formatting and being able to click on a picture to enlarge it? I'm on a 15" laptop and I can't make out any of the text in that picture, even if I try blowing it up in Chrome or Firefox.
 
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Yeah that's my biggest problem with Turing and especially Ampere right now, is the memory bottlenecking is pretty gargantuan. Both architectures scale crazy well when overclocking vram, heck look at the 1660 Super vs 1660 Ti, that's a great example.

Moore's Law Is Dead did a good video on G6X and how it's kind of a failure. It's too power-hungry and hot, if Nvidia increase bus widths instead with G6, that would be a much better solution, offering the same performance with more efficiency.
 

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what happened to your formatting and being able to click on a picture to enlarge it? I'm on a 15" laptop and I can't make out any of the text in that picture, even if I try blowing it up in Chrome or Firefox.
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Yeah I'm not sure I found it very strange. Especially with RTX enabled, it should be faster. I suspect they were not using DLSS and as a result, the 8GB frame buffer was being maxed out because ray tracing will use more vram vs regular lighting techniques.

However, DLSS should significantly reduce vram consumption, since you're reducing the render resolution by more than 2x, so this should not be a problem at all if you use DLSS. Running Control on my RTX 2060 Super with everything maxed out at 3440x1440 with DLSS at 720P (performance mode) i couldn't get my vram usage above 6GB.
Just wondering, roughly what difference is there on your 2060 Super at Ultrawide w/DLSS on performance vs. quality?
 

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Does anyone have any ideas why Blender (and Redshift too I suppose) shows a vast difference between the 3070 and 2080 Ti compared to everything else?
 

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Who cares, there won't actually be any of these cards available at launch anyway. They only did the 30 series launch when they did so they could make sure they beat AMD projected dates. Typical Nvidia BS

With current Nvidia stock condition , 30 serious is not released yet starting from 3080.
I'm guessing they have stock but they do this purposely to maintain high prices. to avoid over stock which will result in reduced prices.

Seems will keep my GTX 1080 FE until 40 serious released :p
 
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Does anyone have any ideas why Blender (and Redshift too I suppose) shows a vast difference between the 3070 and 2080 Ti compared to everything else?

I suspect that's largely down to the change in architecture, where Ampere's cores can get double the FP32 compute performance when they're not also being used for integer operations, allowing some floating-point-heavy compute workloads to be performed significantly faster. That's why Nvidia was able to make claims that the 3080 offers nearly "30 Tflops" of FP32 performance, but in actual games it tends to perform more like an 18-19 Tflop Turing card. Ampere tends to get around a third less performance-per-Tflop in today's games compared to Turing when comparing those numbers, but in workloads utilizing primarily FP32 and not many integer operations, the gains can be higher.

As such, a "20 Tflop" 3070 should perform relatively similar to a 13.5 Tflop 2080 Ti in most games. I suspect it may be slightly slower on average across current titles, but I really don't think it will perform "15-25%" slower as someone suggested here, nor will it often be 8% faster either. For anyone thinking it would perform substantially slower, keep in mind that the existing 2070 SUPER is already only around 25% slower than a 2080 Ti at 1440p.