Nvidia has announced the RTX 3070, a $499 graphics card that is much cheaper and faster than the 2080 Ti. [20 shader TFLOPS, 40 RT TFLOPS, and 163 tensor TFLOPS, the RTX 3070 is designed for high-end gaming. This is due to the Ampere graphics architecture and a whopping 5,888 CUDA cores. It also has 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

This is slightly less than the RTX 2080 Ti, which has 11GB of GDDR6 memory. However, according to Nvidia, this does not hinder performance. According to the chipmaker, performance is roughly on par with the RTX 2080 Ti and significantly faster than the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Super.

The complete RTX 3070 design with the new 12-pin power connector can be seen above. [The RTX 3070 will be available this October for $499, a bit later than the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 (announced on September 17 and September 24, respectively).