so we're kind of in an interesting situation right now where aftermarket
cards are being priced lower than the reference Founders edition of NVIDIA's
top-end models one of the first of these to hit the market is the EVGA 1070
superclocked which sports a factory overclock and a somewhat flashier
looking cooler the last time we had a look at one of evga's superclocked cards
we recommended it as the best value for money among the rest of their lineup but
as different as the gForce 10 series is from its predecessor is this still the
case let's Dive Right
In the ZBOX Magnus en980 from Zotac is a
freaking liquid cooled Mini PC holy crap
check it out in the link in the video description down below so our new
superclock 1070 is quite a departure from the last generation of EVGA cards
it's ditched the stealthy mostly black look and favor for a more metallic
industrial look on the front face of the new ACX 3.0 cooler you also get a
brushed back plate with the evj logo and a back lit panel on the top also
featuring the logo something I personally find a little too inrf face
and tacky but lonus and JN both actually
liked it so I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder as always and speaking
of backlighting there are plenty of white lights on the front of the card so
it might be a good choice if you're rocking a rig with a black silver or
White theme there's no RGB but plain white does work quite well with the
industrial aesthetic of the card and white just kind of generally goes with
most themes anyways so it's probably fine on the side you get the standard
complement of ports including dual link DVI three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors
and an HDMI 2.0 port for 4K at 60 HZ
with a supported monitor under the hood the GTX 1070 GPU has a boost clock of
1,700 184 MHz uh 100 higher than the
reference Founders Edition but the superclocked still has the same 4 plus1
powerphase design and 8 GB of gddr5 V
RAM so how much of a difference does the 100 MHz bump make well unfortunately not
that much of one we tested at both very high 1440p and then medium 4K settings
and across the board the superclock 1070 and the founders Edition were within one
FPS of each other with a reference card actually winning by one FPS in a couple
of tests probably due to like I don't know alignments of the planets or
something the superclocked only pulled away a bit in Crisis 3 at 4K where it
managed three more frames per second but of course a non-reference cooler can
often mean better overclocking potential even with the same power phas design so
we cranked up both our EVGA superclocked and our Founders Edition 1070s to see if
the superclocked would Flex its muscles a little bit more we were able to
achieve a 125 MHz overclock on the
superclocked over the factory overclock and a 200 MHz overclock on the founders
Edition using both MSI After Burner and
evga's precision X and OC Scanner keep
in mind that because the superclock had a 100 MHz Factory overclock it was only
running 25 MHz faster than the founders
Edition after we finished dialing in all of our settings here we saw a bigger
jump of 2 to 3 FPS for the EVGA card across the board but again it didn't
really put any distance between itself and an overclocked Founders Edition but
that isn't to say that the superclocked isn't better in any way as the new ACX
3.0 cooler kept the GPU at only 72° C at
load when overclocked a full 10 degrees
lower than the founders Edition with the ball bearing fans staying quiet as well
thermal performance is easily this card's strongest selling point and
speaking of selling points the superclock 1070 retails for
$440 that's only 10 bucks less than the founders Edition with other aftermarket
design selling for up to $60 less than that you're paying a fair bit for the
nicer cooler yes those $60 less cards have fairly cheap plastic coolers and
stuff but still as raw performance and overclocking potential are virtually
identical to NVIDIA's reference card that's a little rough yes those plastic
cooled cards won't perform quite as well but still it's a bit disappointing as
the last superclocked card we reviewed the EVGA gtx980 SC was is clearly better
out of the box versus the reference card you can check out our testing for that
up here but that makes it so that I can't really give the superclock 1070 an
enthusiastic recommendation but the interesting thing here is that it looks
like thermal performance may be worth the extra cost over the like lower end
aftermarket cards that we mentioned earlier if you really want that raw
overclocking performance over reference though the for the win and classified
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towards a new device thanks for watching this video guys if you liked it like it
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out our t-shirts in the video description down below you can check out
this video right here which is on the 1070 original reference Founders Edition
review thing that's that's what that video is if you want to buy one of these
cards you can check those out on Amazon they have this one and other 1070s on
there and other than that I'll see you next
time goodbye