Palit GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

The Palit RTX 3070 Ti GameRock is a solid offering for the new 3070 Ti range. With its unique aesthetic and decent performance, it will both stand out in your build and help you get the drop on your enemies, should you be able to even find one to buy. Coming with three fans and a switch that lets you switch between performance and silent modes, the RTX 3070 Ti GameRock has a lot to offer! Throw in LOTS of RGB for good measure and you have a fairly well-rounded card that offers almost everything anyone could want from a GPU of the calliper! The only thing it likely won’t offer is the chance to buy it at a decent price thanks to bots, scalpers and everything else currently going on. The 3070 Ti beats the 2070 Super with ease and sits between the 3070 and 3080 as we would expect. In our testing, the 3070 Ti is a bit closer to the 3070 side of things, so it really just does leave you to wonder if it’s worth it all or not?

Palit's GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GameRock OC is the company's flagship RTX 3070 Ti that comes with a large overclock out of the box. Rated boost frequency is set to 1845 MHz, which is the 3rd highest available on the market. Only the Gigabyte AORUS Master (1875 MHz) and the MSI Suprim X (1860 MHz) are higher. Rated clocks aren't everything. We've tested the MSI Suprim X today, too, and it is consistently slower than the Palit GameRock, only by 1%, but it's clearly not faster. Turns out that MSI picked a much lower power limit than Palit (310 W vs 330 W). This results in actual real-life performance to end up in favor of the Palit card, because the higher power limit gives the card more headroom to boost. The Palit RTX 3070 Ti GameRock OC is the fastest RTX 3070 Ti that we've reviewed today.

Complex, that's what the 3070 Ti series is. The MSRP already is too high for my taste, and I am afraid that a card as limited as this one is for tweaking, and with worse acoustics than FE, would only make sense if it is really cheap. And I just don't know what the final pricing for this product will be like. We're talking about a 2560x1440 resolution targeted graphics card, now costing likely 699 USD or more (we honestly don't know the final etailer pricing at this point). When you blindly stare at the marginal increase of 256 Shader cores you might feel indifferent in the fact that the product would not make enough difference. NVIDIA did make the right call to move the GDDR6X though, the overall performance is there as the older 3070 memory was somewhat bandwidth limited. We're just not sure it makes a substantial enough differential. It turns out that the reconfigured product yields suitable numbers, especially in the WQHD resolution domain where this card is targeted at. 8GB however is going to become more troublesome in Ultra HD, albeit that's still a relativistic statement to make as this card is not aimed at that monitor resolution. As an overall package of hard- and software the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti performs well on all fronts, performance, cooling, and acoustics. Palit has a nice-looking and solid offering. However they need to place more focus on better performance cooling, the temps are fine, however, 41 DBa in this day and era is a little too much, especially in the price range. Now don't see it as too negative, contrary, as years ago this was a fairly normal acoustics level. The problem is appeal combined with limited tweakability. But hey, overall a nice looking product, offering reference performance level gaming. You can't really complain about that.