Averages 99 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles
99 Avg FPS Includes estimates
These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti averages 99 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 162 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 59 FPS, a 2.7x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means smooth 100+ FPS 1440p gaming across demanding AAA titles. Under load we logged a peak of 278W against the 290W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 75 FPS | 60 | 6.75 GB | 276 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 81 FPS | 63 | 6.57 GB | 270 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 59 FPS | 48 | 7.36 GB | 267 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 115 FPS | 94 | 7 GB | 278 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 122 FPS | 78 | 5.29 GB | 276 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 162 FPS | 88 | 7.13 GB | 216 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 100 FPS | 77 | 7.36 GB | 273 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 108 FPS | 82 | 7.36 GB | 232 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 66 FPS | 55 | 7.05 GB | 276 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Ampere (GA104) |
| CUDA cores | 6,144 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR6X |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 608 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,770 MHz |
| TDP | 290 W |
| Process | 8nm |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2021-06-10 |
| Launch MSRP | $599 |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti averages 99 FPS at 1440p on our suite. These figures are anchored estimates, interpolated against the cards we measured first-party on the same suite, and they stay labeled as estimates until this card runs.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #29 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA Titan RTX | 105% | 104 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Founders Edition | 101% | 100 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | 101% | 100 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT | 100% | 99 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti | 100% | 99 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT | 95% | 94 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6800 | 90% | 89 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super | 86% | 85 | |
| GeForce RTX 5060 Ti | 85% | 84 |
Same card, other workloads: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AI benchmarks, LLM tokens/sec, image generation & VRAM fit
| Transistors | 17,400 million |
| Die size | 392.5 mm² |
| Process node | 8 nm |
| Fabricated by | Samsung |
| Transistor density | 44.3 million per mm² |
Denser than 80% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
Whole-job timings, composed from our measured per-model results on this card.
Can't run: Product photo shoot (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Photo restoration batch (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Restore and enlarge photos (needs FLUX.1 Kontext dev), Character sheet, 12 poses (needs FLUX.1 dev), Short social clips (needs Qwen3 32B), 60-second AI short film (needs Qwen3 32B), 24-frame storyboard (needs Qwen3 32B), 6-panel comic page (needs Qwen3 32B), Long-form article batch (needs Llama 3.3 70B), Full codebase review (needs Qwen2.5-Coder 14B).
This card is $599 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.176/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.211/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 2,836 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $154 | 3.9 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $617 | 11.7 months |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $1,850 | 3.9 months |
At steady usage this card pays for itself inside a normal ownership window. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.