ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC and Noctua engineers teamed up to pair two iconic NF-A12x25 PWM fans with a tailor-made thermal solution that rides on a custom PCB. This potent pairing allows the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition to operate at lower GPU temperatures and produce less noise than any air-cooled graphics card in its class.

Cool and Quiet

From shroud to heatsink, every aspect of the cooler is optimized to set new standards for thermals and acoustics.

Card Enhancements

Additional upgrades first championed on ROG Strix and TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards allow the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition to deliver performance and durability at every level.

• 0dB Technology
• Auto-Extreme Technology
• Dual BIOS
• Armored Underside

An advanced controller brings fans to a standstill when the GPU temp is below 50 Celsius, letting you enjoy light gaming in relative silence. As temps rise, the fans automatically start up again.

GPU Tweak II

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC  GPU Tweak II utility takes graphics card tuning to the next level. It allows you to tweak critical parameters including GPU core clocks, memory frequency, and voltage settings, with the option to monitor everything in real-time through a customizable on-screen display. Advanced fan control is also included along with many more features to help you get the most out of your graphics card. XSplit offers a premium streaming experience with in-game annotations and other advanced features. Enjoy a free license with the purchase of select ASUS graphics cards.

Rtx. It’s On

Experience today’s biggest blockbusters like never before with the visual fidelity of real-time ray tracing and the ultimate performance of AI-powered DLSS.

Victory Measured In Milliseconds

NVIDIA Reflex delivers the ultimate competitive advantage. The lowest latency. The best responsiveness. Powered by GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs and NVIDIA^® G-SYNC^® monitors. Acquire targets faster, react quicker, and increase aim precision through a revolutionary suite of technologies to measure and optimize system latency for competitive games.

Up Your Creative Game

Take your creative projects to a new level with GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. Delivering AI-acceleration in top creative apps. Backed by the NVIDIA Studio platform of dedicated drivers and exclusive tools. And built to perform in record time. Whether you’re rendering complex 3D scenes, editing 8K video, or livestreaming with the best encoding and image quality, GeForce RTX GPUs give you the performance to create your best.

Stream Like A Boss

Steal the show with incredible graphics and smooth, stutter-free live streaming. Next-generation hardware encoding and decoding combine to show off all your best moments in exquisite detail. And the all-new NVIDIA Broadcast app gives you powerful AI capabilities to improve audio and video quality with effects like virtual background, webcam auto frame, and microphone noise removal. So you can give your audience your best—every time.

Directx 12 Ultimate

Developers can now add even more amazing graphics effects to Microsoft Windows-based PC games. GeForce RTX graphics cards deliver advanced DX12 features like ray tracing and variable rate shading, bringing games to life with ultra-realistic visual effects and faster frame rates.

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 Review

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC boldly goes where no graphics card has gone before — at least, not without heavily modding the card on your own. Disclaimer: I love unique looking graphics cards, and I generally think bigger is better. Sure, RGB bling and high factory overclocks are fun, but this monstrous lovechild of Asus and Noctua is something entirely different. Were it not for the high price and somewhat limiting choice of GPU, this could be one of the best graphics cards of all time. But seriously, look at that thing: It takes up four freaking slots! I hope you don’t want to use any other PCIe peripherals in your rig.

One thing to note with the Asus Noctua card is that this isn’t the highest clocked RTX 3070 from the company. The RTX3070-O8G-NOCTUA, to use the formal model number, sports a boost clock of 1845MHz when you utilize Asus GPU Tweak and select OC mode. That’s a pretty healthy bump in clock speeds relative to Nvidia’s 1725MHz boost clock for the reference design, but it still falls short of the Asus Strix models’ 1935MHz OC mode boost clock — and the Strix is available in both white and black/grey variants.

It just so happens that we have a white RTX 3070 Strix card in our labs, so we’ll actually be able to quantify the differences, in terms of performance as well as power, thermals, noise, and size. Here’s the rundown of specs, with the Asus Noctua and Strix cards compared to Nvidia’s reference Founders Edition:

Besides the difference in boost clocks — and again, we’re using the OC mode’s boost clocks for the Asus cards — the real difference comes in the form of size. The RTX 3070 Founders Edition tips the scales at a relatively svelte 1034g, while the Noctua card weighs 50% more, and the Strix card is a hefty 70% increase. Weight alone doesn’t really determine cooling, though it can certainly be a factor, with heatsink surface area being the other major factor.

Nvidia’s Founders Edition uses a two-slot cooler and a 12-pin power connector with an adapter cable that links to a single 8-pin PEG connector. It’s relatively compact, measuring 242x112x38 mm.ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua OC is the longest of the three cards, at just over 12.5 inches (322x129x60 mm by our measurements), while the Noctua more than doubles the size of the Founders Edition at 308x126x87 mm — it’s wide enough that it might even interfere with a card installed four slots over! By volume, the Noctua cooler and card are about 35% larger than the already sizable Strix card.

All of that extra cooling capacity has to be good for something, and as we’ll see later, it is. Temperatures are lower than the other 3070 cards on the Noctua, as are noise levels. But are they low enough to justify the higher price and large card size? If you’re trying to build a Noctua-themed PC, sure. Most people will likely be more interested in saving money — not that any RTX 3070 comes cheap, but there are definitely cheaper options than the Asus 3070 Noctua card.

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