Nvidia GTX 1070: The Full Specifications

[phil7990]

A visual of what the 1080 looks like in-game. This is promising for the 1070. https://youtu.be/XdN9DxR-JVQ

 

[RedJaron]

$379 is a bargain. I paid $300 for an NVidia Riva 128 in 1997.

That's rough, man. In 1999 I paid about $300 for a Riva TNT 2 and it really made that 128 look old. That was a card that aged very poorly. The TNT cards were just so much better.

Mmm, nostalgia. Still have my 32MB TNT2 ( paid $120 ) and 12MB Voodoo2 ( paid $220 ) in my Win98 box sitting in storage.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

According to the Steam survey, the GTX 970 is probably the best selling video card of all time.

Easily .... i has greater market penetration than all of AMDs 2xx and 3xx series combined. I cant help but wonder given the price of the 770 and 1070, why nVdia broke the 970 at $320 .... and wouldn't be surprised if it was a calculated attempt and grabbing market / mind share at the expense of profits.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

I have my sights set on a GTX 1070. Better performance, and far better power consumption, than my 780ti. My particular model uses more juice than even a 290x.

The maximum instantaneous power draw is not something really seen by the PSU with respect to energy usage .. these are momentary spikes that are handled by the caps.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

And here's reason to pay no attention to these early release cards:

1. Later stepping boards will have bug fixes and other tweaks ... remember the EVGA 970 SC where the early cards had 1 of the 3 heat pipes missing the GPU ?

2. Third party offerings will have improved cooling and componentry which will result in substantial performance differences. Testing show that FE cards are throttling .. while 3rd party offerings are not.

http://videocardz.com/60838/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-gaming-x-is-much-better-than-founders-edition

NVIDIA’s own reference design suffers from severe throttling just after few minutes. It probably wouldn’t be that bad if not the frequency spikes. While average clock is somewhere around officially stated boost clock, those spikes cause micro-stuttering, which negatively affects gaming experience.

Hardware.info:

Founders Edition suffers from a horrendous amount of throttling and it runs +- 150 MHz lower all the time.

Meanwhile, MSI GTX 1080 GAMING X generates almost a straight line for GPU frequency (~1910 MHz), with no spikes and rather constant sub-70 C temperature. This should mean that the gaming experience will be much better, and card should theoretically generate better results in most tests. Also according to H.I. this is also the best custom design they so far tested.