An RTX 3070 Ti gaming PC for a price that makes all RTX 3070 'deals' irrelevant
iBuyPower Slate MR294i | Intel Core i9 11900KF | Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti | 1TB SSD | 16GB RAM | $1,899.99$1,499.99 at Best Buy (save $400)(opens in new tab) I had to remove a couple of other deals from this list to make way for this one. It made the RTX 3070 deal we had posted previously practically pointless for the same price. No, this is the way to go: nearly an RTX 3080 PC for the price we're often finding an RTX 3070 PC going for. The Intel chip is a bit older now, but it's a powerful Core i9 so no complaints there, and the rest of the spec looks well rounded indeed.
The RTX 3070 Ti is a fine graphics card from the last generation, itself not a million miles off the performance of the once-mighty RTX 3080(opens in new tab). But it is still a $600+ graphics card and that makes it almost impossible to recommend anyone buys as a standalone upgrade.
But as part of a full gaming PC, well, it actually makes for a great new rig especially with this iBuyPower machine on sale at Best Buy for $1,500(opens in new tab). That's around the price that until recently was the preserve of RTX 3060(opens in new tab) machines, and only recently has become the price tag you might expect for an RTX 3070 gaming PC.
The RTX 3070 Ti is comfortably faster than the RTX 3070(opens in new tab) because it's using the complete GA104 GPU. That gives it 6,144 CUDA cores vs. the older card's 5,888 and uses the same high-speed 19Gbps GDDR6X memory as the RTX 3080/Ti cards.
In fact, that puts it above the AMD RX 6800(opens in new tab) (non XT) card in terms of gaming performance, a card which itself was no slouch.
The rest of the spec matches up to GPU, too. The Core i9 11900KF(opens in new tab) (essentially the same as an i9 11900K but without an
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