recently NVIDIA's ceo jensen huang said
that for the holiday season and the
foreseeable future i think pascal is
just unbeatable we assumed he meant on the very high end
where AMD hasn't even teased an upcoming competitor but i guess he probably
already knew then that the gtx 1070 ti
was on its way but what is this
an exciting new offering or just a transparent attempt by NVIDIA to get all
the press including us talking about them by repackaging existing tech to
secure their market share while vega availability is low
so we're going to show you some performance numbers but only after we
talk about the bs that NVIDIA is pulling
with this launch and after you listen to this word from
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looking at the spec sheet gtx 1070 ti has more in common with the 1080 than it
does with the 1070. it has the same core clock the same TDP just a touch fewer
cuda cores and in fact all it has in common with the 1070 is the name
and memory configuration even visually
it's almost identical to a gtx 1080
founders edition same cooler same shroud
same overall length and width same power
connector i mean for all intents and purposes this card feels more like a
binned 1080 with cheaper gddr5 rather
than gddr5x memory and given how quickly
it's been brought to market by the look of things it probably is
but just because the product is a familiar face with a mustache and a
funny wig doesn't mean the business practices are
anything we've seen before so in the past
founders editions were more expensive
presumably to avoid competing with board partners that are building custom
solutions like ASUS evga and MSI
but this time the msrps are the same
now there's nothing legally or even ethically wrong with this but it's known
in the biz as a dick move and while
consumers might not care about that i mean lower prices is better right
this next one is a similar grade kick in
their teeth do you guys remember green light NVIDIA's program limiting
overclocking friendly partner designs with unlocked voltages
well they are tightening their fist even further
board partners are apparently now being
told that they can no longer sell cards with a factory overclocked BIOS
installed NVIDIA i'm sure you know this already but this
is a big load of bullsh i mean look at poor evga's website
everything from a base blower card to a
water cooled card ships with exactly the same clock speeds and the rumor going
around from even reputable sources like pc purse ryan shrout is that not only is
every card clocked the same out of the box relying on GPU boost for any
performance gains and from my understanding these vendors
aren't even allowed to bend the parts right so the higher end
cards don't get the best gpus necessarily it's kind of
more luck of the draw here what i mean what
it feels like is they're trying to keep this card from being too good so that
they can keep selling 1080s some partners are trying to work around this
by bundling one-click overclocking software but at worst this screws over
the users of platforms without available software overclocking tools like mac
users with external GPU boxes and at
best it's just adding more junk for the consumer to install to get the
performance that they paid for whatever your reasons for doing this green team
they're not good enough and we don't like them with all of that out of the
way the world does still need to know how this card performs though so we
grabbed our kaby lake and ryzen test benches along with a fine selection of
recent gpus to pin it against so is it
good enough to crush AMD's hopes and dreams
we start out with a solid it depends
on ryzen we got slightly better performance with vega and deus ex
mankind divided in both 1080p and 1440p
while our kaby lake bench gave us more mixed results
rise of the tomb raider flips things around with the 1070 ti pulling out
ahead on both ryzen and core i7 that is
until we look at directx 12 and 1440p
where once again the gap closes significantly and vega even overtakes it
this trend continues all the way through our bench suite with the vega 56 either
pretty close to 1070 ti and for honor and ghost recon wildlands or outright
outperforming it like at 1440p in counter-strike global offensive
our synthetics are initially more kind to the 1070 ti with a higher result in
fire strike extreme and time spy but unigen's superposition gives the edge to
vega 56. as for productivity blender
cycles renderer shows a clear preference for AMD with vega 56 shaving 15 seconds
off the 1070 ti's time to render the bmw
and an even wider gap in the classroom test as for power consumption it clearly
favors the 1070 ti though with a cool 30
watt lower total system power draw than vega 56 and an even wider gap of course
compared to vega 64. unsurprisingly it's
pretty close to the gtx 1080 though its thermal performance under synthetic load
actually winds up a little better so is it a vega killer
well that's where it gets interesting based on supposed msrps no
but when we consider vegas ongoing availability and pricing issues it
actually doesn't do too badly at all not badly for NVIDIA that is both consumers
and NVIDIA's partners are kind of getting the shaft here
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