ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo

ZOTAC RTX 3070Ti AMPHolo

We test the most premium GeForce RTX 3070 Ti from ZOTAC, meet the AMP Holo edition.

This card has been throttled up to the max, with a custom design PCB, components, a

massive cooler and a factory tweak of 1830 MHz (Boost).It’s a graphics card series that wil

l sit in between 3070 and 3080 performance levels, a product that is on the heels of the

Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT. Yeah, there’s no disputing it. It has been odd and even

grotesque if we’re talking computer components alone, silicon shortages, mining, scalpers. It’s been sour grapes

for a long time now. Likely that won’t change the short term. People are almost fighting to grab

a decently priced graphics card, often running up to three times the MSRP pricing. People

even have been asking us, why are you still even reviewing these graphic cards when there’re not available

? The answer is simple: once they become available, you surely want to read up about their

performance and get all facts together to make an informed decision.  NVIDIA is staying on

its trajectory, implementing hash-rate limitations for consumer-grade GPUs and releasing refresh

products pretty much as scheduled. Last week, we saw such a refresh

product that positioned

itself between the GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090. That product would be the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti.

NVIDIA, however, has one more product to add to the Ampere lineup, another Ti model,

and this round, the 3070 Ti makes a fashionable appearance. Armed with a shader core count

of 6144 units, this card is paired with 8GB of GDDR6X graphics memory running 19 Gbps.

Though the VRAM value seems a tad low, it surely is bound to be a powerhouse and maybe even

a bit of an animal. Please do remember that it was less than a year ago that NVIDIA launched thei

r Ampere GPU series, September 2020, in fact. A week before announcements, specifications

of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, 3070, 3080, and 3090 took a twist; the shader core count

mysteriously doubled up from what everybody expected, to date something massively

important to this product range as yes, the competition has gotten fiercer as well. NVIDIA’s

GPUs are fabricated on an 8nm node derived from Samsung. This process

further develops Samsung’s 10nm process; no EUV is applied in production just yet. This

second wave of announcements sees the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and 3070 Ti. The full

desktop product line of Ampere for consumers now entails the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB

, 3070 8GB GDDR6, RTX 3070 Ti 8GB, RTX 3080 10GB, RTX 3080 Ti 12GB, and RTX 3090; what we test today is an 8GB GDDR6X high-end product.

Much like the 3070, the 3070 Ti will base based on the existing GA104 GPU from NVIDIA,

however, reconfigured with a move from GDDR6 towards GDDR6X. The card has an impressive

6144 Shader processors activated, and that’s up 256 shader cores from the 5888 in the older RTX 3070 model.

ZOTAC RTX 3070Ti AMPHolo