FEATURES
NVIDIA Ampere Streaming Multiprocessors
2nd Generation RT Cores
3rd Generation Tensor Cores
Powered by GeForce RTX 3070
Integrated with 8GB GDDR6 256-bit memory interface
WINDFORCE 3X Cooling System with alternate spinning fans
RGB Fusion 2.0
Protection metal back plate
LHR (Lite Hash Rate) version
CORE CLOCK
1815 MHz (Reference Card: 1725 MHz)
CREATE YOUR WORK FASTER THAN EVER
Powerful GeForce RTX 30 VISION series accelerates your work with incredible boosts in performance. Whether you are doing VIDEO EDITING?3D ANIMATION?PHOTOGRAPHY?GRAPHIC DESIGN?ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION or BROADCASTING, it can save you a lot of time.
WINDFORCE 3X COOLING SYSTEM
The WINDFORCE 3X cooling system features 3x80mm unique blade fans, alternate spinning, 5 composite copper heat pipes direct touch GPU, 3D active fan and Screen cooling, which together provide high efficiency heat dissipation.
ALTERNATE SPINNING
Alternate Spinning can reduce the turbulence of adjacent fans and increase air pressure.
3D ACTIVE FAN
The 3D Active Fan provides semi-passive cooling, and the fans will remain off when the GPU is in a low load or low power game.
UNIQUE BLADE FAN
The airflow is spilt by the triangular fan edge, and guided smoothly through the 3D stripe curve on the fan surface.
GRAPHENE NANO LUBRICANT
Graphene nano lubricant can extend the life of fan by 2.1 times, close to the life of double ball bearing, and is quieter.
SCREEN COOLING
Extended heatsink design allows air flow to pass through, providing better heat dissipation.
HEAT PIPES DIRECT TOUCH
The shape of the pure copper heat pipe maximizes the direct contact area with the GPU. The heat pipe also covers the VRAM through a large metal plate contact to ensure proper cooling.
RGB FUSION 2.0
With 16.7M customizable color options and numerous lighting effects, you can choose lighting effects or synchronize with other AORUS devices.
EXCELLENCE
PROTECTION METAL BACK PLATE
The metal back plate not only provides an aesthetical shape, but also enhances the structure of the graphics card to provide complete protection.
EXTREME DURABILITY & OVERCLOCKING
The graphics card uses the better power phase design to allow the MOSFET to operate at lower temperature, and over-temperature protection design and load balancing for each MOSFET, plus the Ultra Durable certified chokes and capacitors, to provide excellent performance and longer system life.
FRIENDLY PCB DESIGN
Fully automated production process ensures top quality of the circuit boards and eliminates sharp protrusions of the solder connectors seen on the conventional PCB surface. This friendly design prevents your hands from getting cut or inadvertently damaging components when making your build.
AORUS ENGINE
The cutting edge intuitive interface allows you to adjust the clock speed, voltage, fan performance and power target in real-time according to your game’s requirements.
Pros: *Forgive the picture quality I took it through a glass. I don't believe there's any scratching on the gpu. I think that's a mark on the glass. Where my pc is setup it's hard to take a photo when it's on. Also that's two different pci cables and not a daisy link. Hard to tell in photo. Very powerful gpu for 1080p and 1440p gaming that supports ray tracing! Maybe considered a little lower end for 4k gaming but I've been having fun with it at 4k and didn't want to spend much more money than the current sale price. The ray tracing works good at 4k too but it depends what you consider good. I'm pretty much good with anything above 30fps as long as the frames don't drop below that often. When I bought this it was on sale for $599 with a $10 rebate bringing it to 589.99 but after taxes around $629. Gigabyte is a very trustworthy company. They've honored their 3 year Warranty in the past. Some other Graphics card vendors such as Sapphire will treat the customer poorly and will not honor their small 2 year Warranty. I usually find deals on Gigabyte and MSI brand gpus. They're usually cheaper than the competition. EVGA is always expensive compared to Gigabyte and MSI. I think Asus runs deals every so often. The gpu brands I've owned are XFX 8800 gts 320mb, Gigabyte 470, Gigabyte 570(Gigabyte honored warranty and upgraded me), MSI gtx 760, Gigabyte 1070 8gb, Sapphire 580(died on me and Sapphire was rude to me and didn't want to honor warranty), MSI 480(died on me but was used card. Probably a miners card). MSI 5600 xt 6gb(traded it for rx 5500 xt4g and got cash from it.) I don't ever recommend trading for cards because you might not be so lucky and get a dead one. Also didn't realize at the time the trade was going to be for a Sapphire rx 5500xt 4gb but it ended up working out fine. Didn't die on me yet! Still don't recommend Sapphire. I highly recommend Gigabyte and MSI products because they're usually offering the better deals and their Customer Support from my experience has been one of the best. I had an MSI motherboard that I thought was defective but I think the bios was off on it and MSI fixed it. I now make sure to keep my Bio updated on it. - White GPU/Silver goes great with my Corsair 678c case. - Huge upgrade coming from an rx 5500 xt 4gb - Sign up on Gigabyte Aurous website to get the 3 year Warranty - At the time of this review Gigabyte on Newegg is offering the cheapest price on RTX 3070 8GB. Comes in both white and black variation depending what you preder. - Cool rgb light on the Gigabyte logo. They also have software to change the color. Right now I have mine red. - I can't emphasize enough of about my love for Gigabyte and MSI products. They usually just work and if there does end up being an issue and they deem that the user isn't at fault they have no issues replacing parts or in some case maybe even upgrading parts. I have love for Gigabyte and MSI.
Cons: The only Con I can think of is that the price will probably go back up under inflation. Also all the people waiting for the 4000 series are probably going to be disappointed when they are all bought out by bots and are probably going to be expensive too. I'm not an expert so you choose to do what you want with your money. Whether that's wait which could cost you more in the long run if the 3000 series ends up jumping back up in price. Right now it's about msrp I believe. I believe it's the founders edition which used to go for around $499 the vendors such as Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, Asus and the top brands of Nvidia usually ask for a little more because of the cooler on it and I believe they're a little faster than the Founders Edition.
Overall Review: Make sure you have 650 watt psu or higher. I made the mistake of originally getting this and thinking my standard not bronze 80 plus EVGA would be enough and that was also a daisy link connection which could have made this graphics card underperform. I ended up going with what the internet recommended and picked up a gently used like new corsair rm650x 80 plus gold 650 watt power supply and now this computer runs like a beast. I cannot confirm if my original power supply was dying but it was creating lag spikes in GTA V until I upgraded my power supply. Gigabyte does recommend a 650 watt power supply and I know people say but with your setup it should have only been using around 400-450 watts at the most. True but maybe there's a huge quality difference between standard 80 plus(not even bronze psu) and gold 80 plus. Either way if the gpu vendor is recommending a certain power supply wattage there's probably a good reason for it. With my old EVGA 600 watt standard 80 plus psu that I had bought from best buy a couple years ago I was getting crashes in Friday the 13th the game on steam. When I got to the main menu it would crash. When I received this new psu in the mail today I get no crashes now. So the Gigabyte RTX 3070 8gb didn't like something about that EVGA 600 watt power supply. It could have been the daisy link cable and not separate pci cables. Who knows what it is and maybe the manufacturer of this card can reply and let me know what they think the issue was. Whether my EVGA 600 watt was dying or if I just needed a 650 watt psu for whatever reason. I felt the need to correct this review because Gigabyte has been a very kind company to me. When I have issues they resolve those issues. Not all companies are ran this way sadly. I've had a horrible experience with Sapphire and PNY. Two companies that are probably not as big as Gigabyte or MSI. I feel like the bigger companies usually have better customer service and that's why they make the big bucks. Treat the customer with respect and help them resolve issues. It pays off because it makes the customer want to do business with them in the future. I will never give Sapphire or PNY my business ever again. I had an issue with a PNY ssd and their company blew me off because they didn't like that I purchased it from them directly & they knew it was brand new. This is why I prefer to buy things on Newegg but even with that said PNY didn't have to be rude. Also PNY's customer service was laughably bad. The first person completely ignored me and the second person just said they wouldn't honor the Warranty. Lesson learned not to do business with PNY but also if you're going to buy New it's probably recommended to buy from Newegg because if there's issues the company can't fall back on excuses on why they won't honor their Warranty. Sorry for this rant and if you had better experience with Sapphire and PNY that's good but I personally didn't. So I will bad mouth them because it's my money and if I felt like I was treat poorly I let others know to Warn them about said company. Best price I've ever gotten on a upper mid range graphics card was an Msi rx 5600 xt 6gb. Bought from Newegg back in September of 2020 and they must have been running a deal. I was able to do some 4k gaming with mixed settings with that card. Obviously that card is much weaker at 4k gaming compared to an rx 3070 8gb but I'm telling you that's insane value for that card. Nvidia and AMD both have their pros and cons. Nvidia's control panel is really dated looking and looks like something from Windows XP time period and AMD's control panel in my personal opinion is much more attractive looking. Also Nvidia and AMD both have different image sharpening and it makes the graphics in games look a little different or unique looking. I wouldn't say one is worse or better than the other even though many claim AMD is better. I think if a person is used to Nvidia image sharpening they might prefer that over the AMD sharpening and vice versa. If someone was used to how AMD gpus looked with their image sharpening they'd probably prefer AMD. Nvidia right now is Winning in the Ray Tracing War. From what I've read and heard in videos online is that AMD's 6000 series is awful at ray tracing. Specs: Ryzen 3700 MSI B450 tomahawk max (original not v2) Gigabyte RTX 3070 8gb Vision OC Corsair 678c white graphite case Corsair Vengeance 8x2 16gb ddr4 ram at 3200mhz Corsair rm650x 650 watt psu My current NVIDIA Control panel settings: Image Scaling - Off Ambient Occlusion - Off Anisotropic filtering - 16x Antialiasing - FXAA Off Antialiasing Gamma correction - Off Antialiasing Mode - Application-controlled Antialiasing Setting - Application-controlled Antialiasing Transparency - Off Background Application Max Frame Rare - Off (you decide) Cuda -Gpus All Power Management mode - Normal Texture Filtering - Quality (choose either Quality or Performance. Don't choose High Quality or High Performa