Join for quick access. Enter your email below and we'll send confirmation plus sign you up to our newsletter.
By submitting your information, you confirm you are aged 16 or over,
have read our
Privacy Policy
and agree to the
Terms & Conditions. Geographical rules apply.
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Join the club
Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards.
An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Gigabyte appears to have listed several new products on the official EEC registry website. These products may or may not hit the market. There are five new, unreleased graphics cards from Gigabyte in total, but one caught our eye as it seems to be an RTX 30 series model with a brand-new memory configuration; a GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM. The database entry, unearthed by Twitter’s Harukaze5719, carries the unmistakable Gigabyte-style codename of ‘GV-N307TGAMING OC ST-16GD’.
It isn’t the first time we’ve seen mentions of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB. We reported about this card being lined up by both Gigabyte and Asus in January this year. It never turned up, of course, but the recent rumors of an RTX 3080 with 12GB did prove true.
We must also put the newly surfaced Gigabyte GV-N307TGAMING OC ST-16GD into the perspective of the Nvidia RTX 30 series predicament. It looks like Nvidia and partners will be trying all avenues to sell off old Ampere GPUs in the coming weeks/months, and offering a wider variety of memory configurations across the series looks like a favored idea. A week ago, another Twitter leaker pointed out that a GeForce RTX 3060 8GB, an RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X, and an RTX 3070 Ti based on the GA102 GPU were all allegedly coming to market.
At this stage, we don’t know if the 16GB version of the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will rely on the GA102 GPU, as per the recent rumor, or if it will stick with a version of GA104, like models currently for sale.
Eagle-eyed readers will have spotted something else relatively new in the naming scheme; all five new cards have ‘ST’ in their codename, which indicates they will be new Project Stealth models. This stealthy family of devices is very quiet and minimizes airflow obstacles. They use Gigabyte’s decent but long-in-the-tooth WindForce technology, a ‘silent’ BIOS option, and power connector positioning to reduce cable clutter. However, they aren’t visually stealthy with their RGB Fusion 2.0 LEDs fired up.
Nvidia is due to launch its first GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card at the GeForce Beyond event on Tuesday. However, we don’t foresee an RTX 3070 Ti successor arriving until early next year. Moreover, many predict an avalanche of ‘lightly used’ and ‘nearly new’ GeForce and Radeon graphics cards on the used market due to the recent Ethereum merge.
Last but not least, remember to add a pinch of salt to the probable release of a graphics card model based on an EEC listing. Sometimes they come, sometimes they don’t, and sometimes there will be a significant delay between a listing and a launch.
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom's Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason.
I wonder if these repurposed current-gen (soon to be previous gen) GPUs will be priced to sell - i.e. that the RRP of this new RTX 3070Ti will be same price (or cheaper) than the old RTX 3070Ti, despite having double the VRAM.
Given the latest revolutionary not-a-fad regarding generative text-to-image ML models running on PC, which is finally a good personal use case for VRAM above 8GB besides the very latest AAA games...This might make someone happy.
Given the latest revolutionary not-a-fad regarding generative text-to-image ML models running on PC, which is finally a good personal use case for VRAM above 8GB besides the very latest AAA games...This might make someone happy.
Depending on the price, cause a 4060 potentially will push more and consume around the same
I wonder if these repurposed current-gen (soon to be previous gen) GPUs will be priced to sell - i.e. that the RRP of this new RTX 3070Ti will be same price (or cheaper) than the old RTX 3070Ti, despite having double the VRAM.
Even so, why should I buy a 700$+ GPU if potentially the 4060 will go faster?
I personally don't think the VRAM alone can justify that, and if you really need 16+ gb of VRAM you're doing a job that doesn't need you to check out on components, and I'm talking about professional use because 16gb of VRAM for the kind of gaming this GPU can offer are not necessary
I would buy two of these in a heartbeat - I don't care about the gaming aspect, but for 3d art (Poser 12 will use multiple GPUs) - this is exactly what I want.
