ASUS RTX 3070 graphics card test TUF Gaming OC, alliance in...

We offer you a second graphics card test RTX 3070 in custom version and this time, we will discover the RTX 3070 TUF Gaming OC, the latter therefore joins the famous alliance initiated by ASUS, with the help of many other manufacturers, such as In Win, Ballistix, Corsair, G.Skill, for example. We must admit this alliance charms us more and more thanks to the design of the components which integrate it.

The RTX 3070 TUF Gaming OC at first glance seems to have a very sober design, however its TUF is able to shine with a thousand colors, thanks to RGB LEDs.

The cardASUS offers passive / active cooling, with three fans, a backplate and requires two 8-pin connectors to operate.

Let’s take a closer look at the new Ampere architecture from NVIDIA, this is the second architecture natively granting Ray Tracing technology. In September 2018, NVIDIA offered its Turing architecture, which had the right to a refresh during the summer of 2019. Two years after Turing, NVIDIA switched to Ampere and offered a leap in certain characteristics. The RTX resulting from the Ampere architecture will benefit from an engraving fineness of 8 nm, performed by Samsung, concretely it would be an optimization of the engraving fineness of 10 nm, specially designed for NVIDIA, which allows a gain As a result of transistors, Turing proposed 18.6 billion at most (12 billion for the previous generation, Pascal), Ampere announces 28 billion. The most visible consequence is the explosion in the number of Cuda Core, the RTX 3080 announces 8704, where the RTX 2080 Ti offered “only” 4352 and the RTX 3090 passes the 10,000 Cuda Core milestone! The other Cores do not suffer the same increase with this new architecture, NVIDIA has preferred to give priority to units dedicated to floating-point number calculations, claiming that these are the most promising in the field of video games. The Tensor Core and RT Core are evolving for their part and NVIDIA claims that this will translate into an increase in performance when the Ray Tracing and DLSS technologies are activated.

Generation RTX 3000 will benefit from second generation RT Core, NVIDIA claims that they are twice as efficient compared to the previous generation and third generation Tensor Core, NVIDIA specifies that this generation would be 48 times more efficient compared to the previous generation. previous generation. These new generations allow NVIDIA not to need to increase the number of RT Cores and even to decrease the number of Tensor Cores, while announcing a performance gain.

The announcement of this new generation was accompanied by the invocation of RTX IO, based on Microsoft’s Directx Storage API, API expected for 2021. The goal is to significantly reduce loading times, the basic finding is simple , compressed game data is conventionally sent to the CPU, in order to be decompressed, then sent to the GPU, so that it is displayed, which constitutes a lot of bottlenecks. The RTX IO opts for a more direct solution, sending the compressed data to the GPU, which will then take care of decompressing and displaying it. This would go from a loading time of 3.8 to 0.5 seconds for an Nvme SSD with a PCie Gen 4.0 interface and from 6.6 to 3.3 seconds for an SSD with a SATA interface. Load times on an HDD would drop from 18.9 seconds to 11.9 seconds.

The new RTX 3080 and 3090 graphics cards from NVIDIA will benefit from a new GDDR6X memory standard, which promises higher operating frequencies and logically increased bandwidth as well. The GDDR6X standard allows the processing of more signals at the same time, 4 against 2 for the GDDR6 standard. The RTX 3070 is “content” to memory the GDDR6 standard, standard which equipped the RTX 20×0.

Finally, the Ampere architecture inaugurates the HDMI 2.1 standard, which makes it possible to offer an output signal in 8K 60 images per second, with a single cable. The cards also support acceleration of the AV1 codec to 8K, HDR 60 frames per second.

The Ampere architecture is quite close to that of Turing, we discover large GPC blocks, which include TPC blocks, where the SM blocks are located. Each SM block has Cuda Core, Tensor Core and RT Core. The GA102 in its most successful version, in the RTX 3090 therefore, offers 82 SM, each SM offers 128 Cuda Core, so we end up with 10,496 Cuda Core in total.

NVIDIA also announces:

• ● NVIDIA Reflex : Instantly become more competitive. Gamers strive for the lowest possible latency in competitive games as it allows the PC to respond to their commands faster, allowing them to play with greater precision. NVIDIA Reflex is a new suite of technologies that optimize and measure system latency. These include NVIDIA Reflex Low-Latency Mode, a technology built into popular esports games such as Apex Legends, Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite, and Valorant, which reduces latency by up to 50%, and NVIDIA Reflex. Latency Analyzer, which detects input from the mouse and then measures the time it takes for the resulting pixels (for example, a gun barrel flash) to change the screen. The Reflex Latency Analyzer is integrated into the new Esports 360Hz NVIDIA G-SYNC displays, arriving this fall from Acer, Alienware, ASUS, and MSI, and supported by ASUS ‘leading esports devices, Logitech, Razer and SteelSeries.
• ● NVIDIA Broadcast : Stream like a Pro. Over 20 million live streamers around the world can turn their homes into a broadcast studio with NVIDIA Broadcast, a universal plugin that improves the quality of microphones and webcams through RTX-accelerated AI effects such as audio noise cancellation, virtual background effects and webcam auto-frame.
• ● NVIDIA Omniverse Machinima : Enrich a new art form. Modern games continue to expand the genre of storytelling, in which game resources are used to create cinematic masterpieces. Omniverse Machinima makes this job easier, providing a path-traced visualization tool and engine designed for physical precision, simulating light, physics, materials and AI. Users can take resources from supported games and use their webcam and AI to create characters, add high-fidelity physics and face and voice animations, and publish cinematic-quality cinematics using the power. of their RTX 30 series GPU.

Introduction The map GPU-Z 3DMark Extreme 3DMark Ultra YEAR 1800 Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Far Cry 5 Gears 5 Ghost Recon Wildlands Grid (2019) GTA V Hitman 2 Red Dead Redemption 2 Shadow of the Tomb Raider The Division 2 Jeux Ray Tracing et DLSS – I Ray Tracing and DLSS Games – II Performance index Consumption and temperature Conclusion