ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition announced

One thing that Noctua is famous for, aside from its premium design and engineering team delivering premium air cooling products, is the brown / beige color scheme. Some users may hate the false and unconventional color, which rarely goes with other colors inside their PC, so they should shy away from Noctua and look elsewhere. Others swear by design, and ASUS took it a step further by partnering with Noctua to create an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. The ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition includes two NF-A12x25 PWM cooling fans with a semi-passive design and aims to be one of the coolest and quietest air-cooled RTX 3070s on the market.

ASUS x Noctua: the start of something bigger?

In August, a Twitter user @KOMACHI_ENSAKA spotted that a collaboration between ASUS and Noctua may be in the works via a listing on the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) website. Putting an end to the rumors, ASUS and Noctua announced their collaboration today, and they both present the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua edition, with a slightly more clocked OC version as well.

The most visually striking thing with the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition models is the beige Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM dual cooling fan attached to a custom heatsink with multiple fins and heat pipes behind the beige. Noctua and ASUS have opted for an extended cooling design like The RTX 3070 Noctua Edition and OC version occupy 4.3 slots and are 12.2 inches in length.

The regular and OC models both operate with a semi-passive design, which means that whenever the temperature drops below 50 ° C, the fans stop. Both models have standard I / O, including two HDMI 2.1 video outputs and three DisplayPort 1.4a video outputs. The power supply for graphics cards is a pair of 8-pin PCIe power inputs and comes with a recommendation for users to install a power supply of 750W or more.

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition with dual brand backplate

Addressing the base model specs, it features a GPU base clock of 1500 MHz, with a game mode boost clock of 1725 MHz and an OC mode boost clock of 1755 MHz. The OC variant features the same 1500 MHz base clock but with more aggressive boost clocks of 1815 MHz in game mode and 1845 MHz in OC mode. Both models share an effective 14 Gbps memory speed, with 5888 CUDA cores on a 256-bit memory interface and 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory.

ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua and OC versions will be available from mid-October, although no pricing has been released at the time of writing.

Source: Noctua

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