Test Setup
Please read our GPU Test Bench and Benchmarking Refresher for an explanation on our test system, procedures and goals. More information on our GPU testing can be found here. Check out our KIT page where you can see all the components in our test system configuration for reviewing video cards.
Drivers
The NVIDIA GeForce driver we are using is a new driver supplied by NVIDIA for the GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition launch. We re-tested every single video card on this new driver as well, so everything is up-to-date and even. The driver is GeForce 456.96.
On the AMD GPU, we used the latest Adrenalin driver which is 20.10.1.
Note that a new AMD Chipset Driver was recently released, all of our benchmarks are on this new chipset driver 2.10.13.408 on the “AMD Ryzen High Performance” power profile.
Also note we are using the latest Windows 10 version, 2004 19041.572 build.
The games we are using in this review are: Control, Wolfenstein Youngblood, Horizon Zero Dawn, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro Exodus, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Gears of War 5, The Division 2, Need for Speed Heat, and Far Cry 5.