ASUS RTX 3070 Noctua Edition Analysis

1. Introduction2. ASUS RTX 3070 Noctua Edition3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. 1440p Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Draw12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

Here we present the average clock speed for each graphics card while running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes. We use GPU-Z to record the GPU core frequency during gameplay. We calculate the average core frequency during the 30 minute run to present here.

The reason for the (very) slight difference in gaming performance between all three RTX 3070s can be put down due to clock speed. The Gigabyte Gaming OC has the highest power limit at 270W and thus boosts the highest, averaging a frequency just shy of 2GHz. The Noctua card meanwhile, ran at around 1910MHz on either BIOS, which is less than 30MHz faster than the RTX 3070 Founders Edition. We're talking very fine margins overall.

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