GTX 1070 Ti Review.. Oh and Also WTF NVIDIA??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,226 words · ~6 min read
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recently NVIDIA's ceo jensen huang said
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that for the holiday season and the
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foreseeable future i think pascal is
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just unbeatable we assumed he meant on the very high end
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where AMD hasn't even teased an upcoming competitor but i guess he probably
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already knew then that the gtx 1070 ti
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was on its way but what is this
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an exciting new offering or just a transparent attempt by NVIDIA to get all
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the press including us talking about them by repackaging existing tech to
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secure their market share while vega availability is low
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so we're going to show you some performance numbers but only after we
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talk about the bs that NVIDIA is pulling
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looking at the spec sheet gtx 1070 ti has more in common with the 1080 than it
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does with the 1070. it has the same core clock the same TDP just a touch fewer
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cuda cores and in fact all it has in common with the 1070 is the name
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and memory configuration even visually
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it's almost identical to a gtx 1080
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founders edition same cooler same shroud
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same overall length and width same power
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connector i mean for all intents and purposes this card feels more like a
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binned 1080 with cheaper gddr5 rather
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than gddr5x memory and given how quickly
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it's been brought to market by the look of things it probably is
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but just because the product is a familiar face with a mustache and a
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funny wig doesn't mean the business practices are
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anything we've seen before so in the past
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founders editions were more expensive
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presumably to avoid competing with board partners that are building custom
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solutions like ASUS evga and MSI
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but this time the msrps are the same
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now there's nothing legally or even ethically wrong with this but it's known
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in the biz as a dick move and while
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consumers might not care about that i mean lower prices is better right
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this next one is a similar grade kick in
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their teeth do you guys remember green light NVIDIA's program limiting
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overclocking friendly partner designs with unlocked voltages
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well they are tightening their fist even further
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board partners are apparently now being
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told that they can no longer sell cards with a factory overclocked BIOS
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installed NVIDIA i'm sure you know this already but this
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is a big load of bullsh i mean look at poor evga's website
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everything from a base blower card to a
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water cooled card ships with exactly the same clock speeds and the rumor going
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around from even reputable sources like pc purse ryan shrout is that not only is
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every card clocked the same out of the box relying on GPU boost for any
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performance gains and from my understanding these vendors
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aren't even allowed to bend the parts right so the higher end
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cards don't get the best gpus necessarily it's kind of
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more luck of the draw here what i mean what
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it feels like is they're trying to keep this card from being too good so that
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they can keep selling 1080s some partners are trying to work around this
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by bundling one-click overclocking software but at worst this screws over
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the users of platforms without available software overclocking tools like mac
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users with external GPU boxes and at
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best it's just adding more junk for the consumer to install to get the
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performance that they paid for whatever your reasons for doing this green team
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they're not good enough and we don't like them with all of that out of the
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way the world does still need to know how this card performs though so we
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grabbed our kaby lake and ryzen test benches along with a fine selection of
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recent gpus to pin it against so is it
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good enough to crush AMD's hopes and dreams
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we start out with a solid it depends
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on ryzen we got slightly better performance with vega and deus ex
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mankind divided in both 1080p and 1440p
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while our kaby lake bench gave us more mixed results
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rise of the tomb raider flips things around with the 1070 ti pulling out
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ahead on both ryzen and core i7 that is
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until we look at directx 12 and 1440p
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where once again the gap closes significantly and vega even overtakes it
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this trend continues all the way through our bench suite with the vega 56 either
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pretty close to 1070 ti and for honor and ghost recon wildlands or outright
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outperforming it like at 1440p in counter-strike global offensive
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our synthetics are initially more kind to the 1070 ti with a higher result in
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fire strike extreme and time spy but unigen's superposition gives the edge to
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vega 56. as for productivity blender
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cycles renderer shows a clear preference for AMD with vega 56 shaving 15 seconds
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off the 1070 ti's time to render the bmw
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and an even wider gap in the classroom test as for power consumption it clearly
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favors the 1070 ti though with a cool 30
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watt lower total system power draw than vega 56 and an even wider gap of course
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compared to vega 64. unsurprisingly it's
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pretty close to the gtx 1080 though its thermal performance under synthetic load
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actually winds up a little better so is it a vega killer
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well that's where it gets interesting based on supposed msrps no
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but when we consider vegas ongoing availability and pricing issues it
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actually doesn't do too badly at all not badly for NVIDIA that is both consumers
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and NVIDIA's partners are kind of getting the shaft here
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