New RTX 3070 4K Benchmarks in Top 10 Popular PC Games Ultra High Setting | 3070 Gameplay
Nvidia’s Ampere-powered $500 GeForce RTX 3070 plows through games just as quickly as the RTX 2080 Ti, last generation’s blistering $1,200 flagship, as we covered in-depth in our comprehensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition review. You need a pixel-packed monitor to get the most out of it, though. Most people stick to straight 1440p or 4K monitors, but if you prefer a more immersive experience, a 3440x1440 ultrawide display would also be a fine fit for Nvidia’s newest graphics card.
3440 ultrawide splits the performance difference between a 4k and 1440p display in terms of raw pixel count. We’ve previously conducted 3440x1440 ultrawide testing for both the $700 GeForce RTX 3080 and $1500 GeForce RTX 3090. Here’s how the more affordable option in Nvidia’s RTX 30-series launch lineup stands up, both against those cards as well as the RTX 2080 Ti that Nvidia is so keen to compare it against.
Spoiler: The GeForce RTX 3070 rocks for pixelicious ultrawide gaming.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 3440x1440 ultrawide benchmarks
We conducted our tests on the same $550, 144Hz Nixeus EDG34S monitor as before. It’s an outstanding value for the price, albeit a bit sparse with extra quality-of-life features. While it only officially supports AMD’s FreeSync Premium adaptive sync technology, you can manually activate G-Sync in Nvidia’s control panel, and it works like a charm. You’ll need to use the monitor’s on-screen display to activate adaptive sync first, however.
If you’re somehow able to find a new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti for around the same $500 price as an RTX 3070, however, opt for that card to fuel your 3440 ultrawide display instead. Not only is it the smallest of hairs faster in pure gaming frame rates, but Nvidia’s last-gen flagship also comes with a more substantial 11GB of GDDR6 memory. The RTX 3070’s 8GB should be fine for 3440x1440 gaming in the vast majority of today’s games. However, memory capacity becomes precious at higher resolutions--and it may become more so in the future, now that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles are both moving to 16GB of VRAM when they launch in a couple of weeks. Console upgrades tend to push specifications forward on the PC side of things, too.
That about wraps this up. Check out our full GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition review for exhaustive info on Nvidia’s 2080 Ti-toppling stunner. Give the $550 Nixeus EDG34S a serious look if you’re planning on upgrading to 144Hz 3440x1440 to go with it.
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