The NVIDIA GTX 1070 is sure to be a hit
card as it follows in the 970s footsteps
numerically and has an aggressive price point of
$449 for the Founders Edition and
$379 for the custom versions that will come later. Steam hardware survey
beware. Does it have the performance to properly stake a claim to a chunk out of
the comparatively huge amount of PC consumers wallets?
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link in the video description. First, let's start with specs. The GTX 1070 is
the second card in their new Pascal lineup. And it features a GP 104 chip
with 1920 CUDA cores compared to the 1080s 2560 and runs at a boost clock of
1683 MHz compared to the 1080 1733 MHz.
It also features the nice new 16nmter process. Unlike the GTX 1080's shiny new
GDDDR5X memory, the 1070 is still sporting GDDR5, but is claiming the
title of the world's fastest version of said memory. As well as running out of
the box at 8 GB per second, that paired with the new memory compression
algorithm, which gives you effectively 20% additional bandwidth, results in 8
gigs of some pretty damn fast GDR5. But
beyond raw specs, there are some other features NVIDIA has baked into the
Pascal cookie as well, such as simultaneous multiprojection and anzel,
which make VR gaming and multimonitor gaming way better and bring gaming
screenshots into basically the future along with some improvements to NVIDIA
VR works. But if you want to hear more about those, click here to check them
out in the official launch review for the GTX 1080. I spend more time on them
there. We got our hands on the Founders Edition, which sounds fancy, but is
really just what NVIDIA is calling the reference version and selling for, as
previously mentioned, $449. A full 70 bucks more than the MSRP
for base models from add-in board partners whose cards we might be able to
see at Computex this year, but I expect more of the 1080s to be shown off than
the 1070s as the launch is so close. The
seemingly DSX inspired shroud features a similar aesthetic to the silver and
black shrouds with blower style fans that NVIDIA has been using for the past
few generations, but with more angles this time around. Connectivity is good
as it features HDMI 2.0 for 4K at 60 Hz,
three DisplayPort 1.4 connectors for 4K at 120 Hz or 8K at 60 Hz. Holy crap. And
dual link DVI. SLI is a little confusing these days because of the introduction
of new types of multiGPU support with DirectX12. What you need to know for now
is that classic NVIDIA SLI only supports two-way configurations by default and
allows users to request something called an enthusiast key directly from NVIDIA,
which will unlock three-way and four-way SLI even though it is no longer
recommended by NVIDIA. There is more information to be discussed here like
in-depth looks at MDA, also known as multi-dis adapter mode, and LDA
explicit, also known as linked display adapter explicit mode, but we'll cover
that in a future video exploring the performance differences and general
support of each mode. So stay tuned for
that. Also, just a quick note before moving on. If it doesn't seem like we
have a bunch of AMD cards in our testing, it's because their new Polaris
architecture, which is supposed to compete with Pascal, is right around the
corner. We'll have much more from the red team when those cards drop. With
that said, let's have a look at how our benchmarking turned out. We tested at 4K
and 1440p. Even if you're watching this and have a 1080p monitor, it's better
when wielding this much power to run your games at higher resolutions. anyway
with something called super sampling to make things look super nice. We have a
guide on that here. Although we've been waiting for the VR games market to
mature a bit before reviewing how good this thing is with the Rift and the
Vive, I did want to investigate what resolution exactly this card should
actually be aimed at for standard desktop gaming. We know from the
investigation of the 1080 that the 1080 is a rather capable 4K card, as we kind
of expected. And while the story isn't the same for the 1070, it's impressive
in its own way. With maxed out settings at every resolution, it destroyed 1080p
gaming, showing that even with a minor amount of pulling back on the settings,
you would have a card that can give you the performance you need for your shiny
new 140 Hz monitor. At 1440p, it kept
flexing its muscles, never dropping below 60 FPS with all of the settings
cranked on whatever the highest preset was. Then in 4K, it didn't quite sit up
with its bigger brother, but still managed higher than 30 FPS and every
title with its settings cranked even a little bit higher with everything put to
the max, even above what the highest preset in some games were. Okay, so it's
mainly a 1440p card if you're going for beauty or a 1080p card if you're going
for wild frame rate gaming or a 4K card
if you want to dial back on a fair bit of different settings or don't mind
gaming at 30 FPS. Although I don't really recommend that if you can avoid
it. At 1440p, it handily beats its predecessor, the 970. While we did
expect this after the launch, it's still quite awesome to see a card that isn't
the flagship perform so well. Speaking of which, what about dollars per frame?
Well, as expected, the 1070 kind of rocks. The 1080 was already pretty good,
but it was against really big, beastly,
expensive setups at 4K. The 1070, when put up against more standard competition
and something that you'd expect more people to run, still performs quite
impressively. We still need to wait for AMD's Polaris to really see where it
lines up, but for now, I'm quite happy. For power draw, the entire bench only
drew 216 watts from the wall, which is ridiculous and gives you borderline
unlimited options for lower wattage power supplies. Thermals were even lower
than expected as well, sitting at 78° C. Just wow. In conclusion, the 1070 really
looks like the card it needed to be. Sure, the 1080 is great, but its cost
was also great. The 1070 is able to destroy 1080p gaming, which is still the
most popular resolution, and gives people fantastic options for high
refresh rate monitors, and even gives out that sweet, sweet nectar, that is
1440p gaming at 60 FPS or above. All I
have to say is to those that delayed upgrading their rigs for the fast past
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