ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge Graphics Card Review

Test Rig

For our test rig we paired the card with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (Matisse), Gigabyte B550 Aorus Pro motherboard and 64GB of Patriot Viper Steel DDR4 3600MHz. All test are conducted using default speeds on CPU and Card.

All tests were conducted at default clock speeds set to High or Ultra settings enabled.

Benchmarks

We would like to thank Futuremark for providing the 3DMark software for use in this testing.

3DMark is arguably the most popular graphics card benchmarking software known to the world. For more than a decade, users have been using the software made by Futuremark to make and break world records and to also test overclocks. The latest version simply known as 3DMark includes several tests for DirectX 9, 10, 11 and 12 hardware. This version also supports cross-platform benchmarking including smartphones and tablets (Android and iOS) this time around. We used the Fire Strike Ultra, and Time Spy benchmarks (all at default settings). I will let the numbers do the talking.

3DMark – Time Spy (DX12)

3DMark Time Spy is a new DirectX 12 benchmark test for Windows 10 gaming PCs. Time Spy is one of the first DirectX 12 apps to be built “the right way” from the ground up to fully realize the performance gains that the new API offers. With its pure DirectX 12 engine, which supports new API features like asynchronous compute, explicit multi-adapter, and multi-threading, Time Spy is the ideal test for benchmarking the latest graphics cards.

3DMark – Firestrike (DX11)

Fire Strike is a showcase DirectX 11 benchmark designed for today’s high-performance gaming PCs. It is our most ambitious and technical benchmark ever, featuring real-time graphics rendered with detail and complexity far beyond what is found in other benchmarks and games today.

3DMark – Port Royal

3DMark Port Royal is the world’s first dedicated real-time ray tracing benchmark for gamers. You can use Port Royal to test and compare the real-time ray tracing performance of any graphics card that supports Microsoft DirectX Raytracing. As well as benchmarking performance, 3DMark Port Royal provides a realistic and practical example of what to expect from ray tracing in upcoming games.

3DMark – DirectX Raytracing Feature Test

Real-time ray tracing is incredibly demanding. The latest graphics cards have dedicated hardware that’s optimized for ray-tracing. The 3DMark DirectX Raytracing feature test measures the performance of this dedicated hardware. Instead of using traditional rendering techniques, the whole scene is ray-traced and drawn in one pass. The result of the test depends entirely on ray-tracing performance.

3DMark – Nvidia DLSS Feature Test

Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to improve game performance while maintaining visual quality. The NVIDIA DLSS feature test helps you compare performance and image quality using DLSS 2 or DLSS 1. With DLSS 2, you can choose between three quality modes—Quality, Performance and Ultra Performance.

Unigine 2 – Superposition (4k Optimized)

Extreme performance and stability test for PC hardware: video card, power supply, cooling system. Check your rig in stock and overclocking modes with real-life load! Also includes interactive experience in a beautiful, detailed environment.

Final Fantasy XV and XIV Benchmark – High Settings

The FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Official Benchmark application can give you a score to indicate the level of performance you can expect from your PC environment when running FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION. It does this by displaying several of the events, maps and characters used in the game.

 

AC Origins

AC Odyssey

Built-in Benchmark

Anno 1800

Gameplay Benchmark

Built-in Benchmark DX12

Here is the results from ADIA64 GPGPU benchmark.

MIN and MAX Temps During all the Benchmarks From Above

At full load, the card reached a high of 74 degrees Celsius. This is all thanks to Zotacs Icestorm cooling solution. This was with default fan settings and at those temps the fans where spinning at 77% and I could notice them compared to the rest of the system. At 100% the fans are very noticeable and I had a reading of  57dB. But you will probably never see the fans spin that fast because this thing would not break over 74 degrees Celsius. And as you can see in the graph below the temps recover very fast.

OVERCLOCK to 2010MHz

Disclaimer: Overclocking is never guaranteed, so the results may vary depending on certain conditions and various hardware configurations. I am not recommending overclocking if you do not know what are you doing. High voltages may damage hardware and it will not be covered by warranty.

Now for the Overclock results! I was able to achieve a base clock of 2010MHz. Anything higher and the test benchmark would freeze up, skip or just stop completely. With that being said that is about an 9.7% overclock over the default 1815MHz Boost OC speeds the card is shipped with. I scored a 11209 – 83.84 FPS compared to 10487 -78.44 FPS at default clocks in Unigine Superposition Benchmark. So we can assume you can get about a 6.4% increase in performance out of this particular card! And like I said I couldn’t get this card to break 74 degree Celsius!

Now lets move on to the Conclusion and Verdict of the Zotac GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge Graphics Card review!