And I have a tracking number... Which admittedly, I have mixed feelings about. Guessing because there's been cheaper chances I missed out on... but I've been using my 970x for over 5 years now... so I should just be happy right? Right.
Absolutely. 3xxx cards rock.
I got a 8gb VRAM on the RTX 3070 - and it rocks. Major improvements since 4gb RTX 970 cards.
1.
DLSS support (Nvidia only) - it uses AI Deep Learning (hence the DL) and it rocks.
2.
FSR (thanks AMD - works on NVidia and AMD, which is their DLSS-wannabe but minus the Deep Learning AI stuff - and it's real good for no AI-usage too);
3.
DLDSR for improving imaging quality on old games, done via AI-scaling techniques (only right now in newest Nvidia drivers, so make sure you grab these drivers if you want to use this new feature).
4. And
RT (Ray-Tracing) are all God-sends; RT is gorgeous - even more so, when you see something like Metro Exodus Enhanced running ONLY RT without baking-style lighting; it's glorious, all rendering dynamic-style only. Sure, stuff like CP2077, BF5, SotTR, Ghostrunner and others look great w/ RT and some baked lighting - but it looks so much better in Metro Exodus Enhanced without any baking and looks WAY more realistic.
You'll definitely need to use either DLSS or FSR, if you're turning on RT - just to get decent performance in many games. DLSS and FSR is also great for performance boosts of like at least 20%, even without RT On, if you just want some performance boosts and sacrifice a tiny bit of graphical quality (i.e. in many instances, they're worth using, since it's not that noticeable).
Running games like a champ (for the most part) on more than 4GB of VRAM is also a blessing, since games are so going beyond that now; especially at higher settings and/or res's.
You're gonna love all of this new tech and stuff.
