Like I mentioned before, this is a longer card than Nvidia’s Founders Edition. The fans are the same design that EVGA has used for a while now with a large EVGA logo in the center and tiny logos all over the fan blades. In line with the fans, there is a scoop shape at the ends of the card that can help pull in air even if the card is a little close to another card, and in between the fans, there is no shroud at all which lets us see the heatsink. The blacked-out shroud looks a little like the last generation of EVGA FTW card, only without some of the additional holes that design had. The XC3 Black had three fans in an axial layout. Our RTX 3070 XC3 Black is a lot tamer though. Something I wouldn’t have guessed EVGA would have done.
EVGA 3070 FULL
They also have a small installation guide included as well, but the cool EVGA poster is no longer included.įor the 3000 series, EVGA did change up the styling on their cards, especially with the FTW model which has full on RGB lighting across the top. The clear plastic does at least let you get to see the card when you pull everything out. It then sits in this formed clear plastic clamshell tray. Inside, the card itself comes with plastic on the fan shroud to protect it from any scratches.
EVGA 3070 SOFTWARE
The back of the box has a standard feature list as well as information on EVGA precision X1 software but the information I would love to see like the card dimensions and clock speed information is all missing for those whopping in retail. The EVGA logo is up in the corner with the XC3 in another huge font down the side of the card and then black above the wrap around. It has the standard Nvidia green wrap around down on the bottom with the GeForce RTX logo being huge and with the model number below it. The box has a picture of the card standing up on the front although one of the fans is hidden. Like with the 2000 series, EVGA went with a unique vertical layout with their boxes which I have to imagine when on the shelves with other cards stands out (at least once they stay in stock long enough to do that).
EVGA 3070 DRIVER
I also do this so I can document the BIOS version used and the driver I tested with which btw is the pre-launch version 456.96 provided by Nvidia. There I could confirm the memory and GPU clocks match the specifications. To confirm that I did what I always do and ran GPUz. So specification wise the EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Black is the same as the Founders Edition. PCI Express, PCI Express 2.0, PCI Expressģ.0 or PCI Express 4.0 compliant motherboard Especially with EVGA going with a more traditional full-length PCB and cooler here over the short PCB that the Founders Edition had to support their unique blow-through design. The RTX 3070 Founders Edition performed well, but today I’m excited to see what an overclock and a different cooler can do. Well in addition to the launch, today is also when the embargo drops for aftermarket RTX 3070’s and I’m lucky enough to have the RTX 3070 XC3 Black from EVGA on hand to check out. On Tuesday I took a look at the new RTX 3070 Founders Edition as a look at Nvidia’s new Ampere-based GPU ahead of today's launch.
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