Before & after shots of my old GTX 1070 and the newer RTX 3060 Ti inside the PC
It’s been about two years since I purchased an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition GPU on eBay for a whopping $186.50 ($216.11 final costs w/ shipping & taxes). Nowadays, you can get this GPU for around $100 on an eBay auction if you’re lucky to get one. I bought the 3060 Ti instead of a 3070, or something similar because I don’t play many PC games regularly. Especially any games that are on the graphics-intensive side of the spectrum. For the cost of this new GPU, I managed to win an auction on eBay for $420.69 ($453.29 final costs). Which is about twice compared to what I paid for the GTX 1070.
Comparing the difference between the two cards in terms of performance. You can see a massive difference for the Cinebench R15 and 3DMark benchmarks. Starting with Cinebench, the CPU render test scored 2453 cb and got 221.95 FPS for the OpenGL test on the 1070. For the 3060 Ti, I got a similar result with the CPU render and got a worse score of 185.85 FPS. The GPU’s utilization was around 40% throughout the test and went down to 10% after the test. For the 3DMark results, I got a Time Spy score of 5,942 with the 1070. 5,475 for the graphics averaging around 40 FPS and 11,516 for the CPU tests. Also, the score I got was deemed to be “below average” compared to other computers with the same hardware I have. With the 3060 Ti, it got a Time Spy score of 11,204. I averaged around 68 FPS for the GPU with a score of 11,250 and a CPU score of 10,953. This is a tad worse than what I got compared to the 1070. And finally, in Automation, I turned on ray tracing on both the low and high settings to see how it performs. With the 1070, the performance really degrades once it’s at the low ray tracing preset. Once I click on the high preset, it either runs at around 2-4 FPS or crashes the game. With the 3060 Ti, it runs at around 20-30 FPS on low ray tracing settings, and on high settings, it runs at around 10 FPS. It is manageable if I want to take high-quality screenshots of a car and the environment, rather than having a bleak background that looks like a PS3 game.
So the difference is clear, this 3060 Ti is a massive upgrade to the 1070. It did 17.7% worse in the Cinebench test which I find strange and 61.4% better for 3DMark. It may have cost me more than the MSRP of this card, but I’m still happy about it. It goes well with this custom PC build as I don’t have an aging component in this computer. A 3060 Ti would do well on top of this AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU that I got running with this build. Anyways, the 3060 Ti works great, and it is a step up from the last card that I’ve had for the past two years.
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