The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 has been out for about eight months now, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is here. That's typically the time frame we see for mid-generation refreshes, but in the world of the best graphics cards we're far from "typical times". Right now, it's incredibly difficult to buy a new graphics card, let alone the RTX 3070, which is by and large the best GPU for most people.
So, you would think a refreshed version of that graphics card would make sense – but the pricing is completely wrong. Starting at $599 (£529, AU$959) – with prices for aftermarket versions likely getting exponentially higher – the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a full 20% more expensive than the RTX 3070, and you're not even getting that much more performance out of it. In most games, the RTX 3070 Ti is just 5-10% faster, according to our tests, and is absolutely not worth the difference in price. Once the market comes back to normal, there will be no reason to ever buy this card.
But, right now the market is anything but normal, and our advice is still basically "buy any graphics card you can find at or near MSRP". And at the end of the day, if the RTX 3070 Ti is the graphics card you can find, it still delivers an excellent 1440p gaming experience, and can even stretch its legs into 4K given the opportunity – though this shouldn't be your first choice of a 4K graphics card.
Price and availability
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is available June 10, starting at $599 (£529, AU$959). That makes it quite a bit more expensive than the original RTX 3070 at $499 (£469, AU$809), with the same difference between it and the $699 (£649, about AU$950) RTX 3080. However, while the RTX 3070 Ti sits right in the middle of the two Ampere heavyweights in price, it's much closer to the RTX 3070 in performance than the RTX 3080.
