Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo, 8GB GDDR6X, HDMI, 3x DP

ZOTAC has a lovely-looking card here with the AMP Holo. The product range and industry as a whole however suffer from the price levels we're dealing with, see we like the 3070 Ti as a whole, as a product, and for its performance. Gigabyte did a really nice job designing this model. However, the conundrum is twofold; the price and the noise levels have simply put a dealbreaker for me. Back to pricing; we're talking about a 2560x1440 resolution targeted graphics card, now costing likely 699 USD or more. 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, and cooling but not acoustics. I'll say it one more time, a lovely card with very impressive performance, however, the acoustics are controversial as we hit a staggering 45 DBa, the cooling performance itself remains outstanding. We're not granting awards as the pricing and availability will likely be totally off.

Zotac's GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo is the company's flagship RTX 3070 Ti that comes overclocked out of the box. Rated boost frequency is set to 1830 MHz, which is a bit lower than the other cards tested today. Still, at 1440p, the card achieves a 2% performance uplift over the NVIDIA RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition, 7% ahead of the RTX 3070 non-Ti. I have to say I expected a bigger improvement from RTX 3070 Ti, especially considering the investment by NVIDIA: full GA104 GPU, GDDR6X, new PCBs, completely new cooler design for the FE. Compared to the Radeon RX 6800 the gap shrinks to only 2%, at 4K the Zotac AMP can match the Radeon RX 6800 non-XT. GeForce RTX 3080 is 13% faster, the newly released RTX 3080 Ti is 23% faster. Last generation's GeForce RTX 2080 Ti flagship is 11% behind the RTX 3070 Ti, and the difference to RTX 2070 Super is 30%.