Frankly, the appearance of GeForce GTX 1070 in testlab I waited stronger than the same GeForce GTX 1080. Because with the flagship “green” became clear after the announcement of the technical specifications. Top NVIDIA single chip at least for the summer he received the rank of the fastest gaming accelerator. Of course, if not timely warning in advance of AMD (which is unlikely), or the manufacturer will not overthrow the new king to release more efficient solutions GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. But let’s go down to the ground. GeForce GTX 1080 are interesting only to those customers who have on account of a plastic card “extra” 600-700 dollars. The rest of the gamers will have to look to the decisions easier. To date, there are two potential options: GeForce GTX 1070, which will be discussed later, and the Radeon RX 480, the exact level of performance which will be known only in July.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Specifications and features of the reference sample
“An interesting oxymoron issued author: offers down to earth, but instead vparivaet card for 35, 000 and even calls her people!” — cry some readers. Indeed, in Russia, a similar price tag (4.7 minimum wage) can not be called humane. And yet look at the statistics. In may 2016 the most popular graphics card among Steam users (more than 125 million people) has become a gaming accelerator GeForce GTX 970. Its recommended price at the time of the announcement in September 2014 was $ 330 USD. In our country, with the pricing it was much sadder. First, the “nineteen seventies” was sold for 15-17, 000, but very soon descended to the crisis — the cost of GeForce GTX 970 has rapidly risen to 25-28, 000. Economic problems plagued not only our state, but it has not prevented to become the GeForce GTX 970 real bestseller (more on this paradox I wrote). Including on 1/6 of the land. Therefore, assuming that the GeForce GTX 1070 has all the chances to repeat the success of the GeForce GTX 970. The more that is monitored by PWM versions of graphics cards will cost $ 60 cheaper Founders Edition.
Steam Stats
At the heart of any GeForce GTX 1070 is GPU GP104. The same chip used in the GeForce GTX 1080, but in our case, the crystal works with one disabled cluster GPC. As Pascal is a modular architecture, in the end, you get 15 streaming multiprocessors, 1920 CUDA cores, 120 texture units and 64 ROP. The GPC cluster, with the move to 16-nanometer process technology has begun. So we see a noticeable difference in peak power between the GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080. The first 6.5 TFLOPS, the second — 9 TERAFLOPS.
With overclocking the GeForce GTX 1080 does not catch up
The second important point is the frequency. Chip GeForce GTX 1070 runs at the speed of 1506 MHz to 101 MHz lower than the GeForce GTX 1080. Besides using slower GDDR5 memory. However, the maximum level of power consumption younger “Pascal” does not exceed 150 watts.
Read more about architecture Pascal you can read in this article.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
AMD Radeon R9 X
The name of the chip
GP104
GP104
GM200
Fiji XT
Process technology
16 nm
16 nm
28 nm
28 nm
The number of transistors
7.2 billion
7.2 billion
8 billion
8.9 billion
The number of GPC
3
4
6
—
The number of SM/CU
15
20
22
64
The number of stream processors
1920
2560
2816
4096
The number of texture units
120
160
176
256
The number of ROP
64
64
96
64
The second level cache
2048 KB
2048 KB
3072 KB
2048 KB
Core frequency
1506 (1683) MHz
1607 (1733) MHz
1000 (1075) MHz
1050 MHz
Memory
GDDR5
GDDR5X
GDDR5
HBM
Memory
8 GB
8 GB
6 GB
4 GB
Memory interface
256-bit
256-bit
384 bit
4096 bits
Memory frequency
2002 (8008) MHz
2500 (10 000) MHz
1750 (7000) MHz
500 MHz,
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
320 GB/s
336,5 GB/s
512 GB/s
TDP
150 W
180 W
250 W
275 W
Food
8 pin
8 pin
8+8 pin
8+8 pin
Interfaces
1x DVI
3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI
1x DVI
3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI
1x DVI
3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI
3x DisplayPort
1x HDMI
Price
From 35 000 rubles.
From 55 000 rubles.
45 000 RUB.
51, 000.
Buy
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The reference version GeForce GTX 1070, that is the Founders Edition was the exact same cooling system as the reference GeForce GTX 1080. So to elaborate on this point I will not.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Printed circuit Board, not surprisingly, is the same. Place the memory chips Micron (only it still produces GDDR5X) took the chip Samsung. The power subsystem has lost another phase. Now there are only four. Adapter for normal operation, it is sufficient to have one 8-pin power connector.
PCB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Reference evaporation chamber to cope with the GeForce GTX 1070 is much better than the GeForce GTX 1080. The maximum temperature of the chip during the tests never rose above 78 degrees Celsius. To achieve this figure, the fan spun up to 2070 rpm Under load the card is audible, but the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has several quieter GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition. The measuring device at a distance of one meter from the test stand recorded the sound in the amount of 39.8 dB.
Monitoring of the performance of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Please note that the stand with the GeForce GTX 1070 through outlet consumes much less energy than a similar system but with GeForce GTX 1080 on Board. Think, affected by the availability of less power hungry GDDR5 memory, which consumes 30 to 40 percent of the energy of the whole card.
The energy consumption of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Overclocking the new “Pascal” — interesting stuff. At the moment there is no possibility manually to change the voltage of the graphics chip. Food reference samples are limited, there is only one 8-pin power connector. Moreover, in the mode of avtoradgona frequency of which itself is increased to a sufficiently high index of 1835 MHz. Under heavy load the speed of the “stone” is reduced to 1583 MHz. As you can see, the spread of megahertz large. Therefore, the performance in a particular game varies markedly.
Overclocking NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
To the face value of the chip I managed to throw another 171 MHz and 236 MHz real memory clock. During testing, the speed of the GPU fluctuated in rather wide limits: from 1911 MHz to 2050 MHz. So in different games, the gains from self-overclock performance is different. For example, in Metro: Last Light, the fps increased by 9.9% in 1080p 9.8% in 1440p and 11.1% in 2160p, respectively. Not bad when you consider that such a raise I got as a freebie.
The effectiveness of overclocking the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition of the game Metro: Last Light
Testing
Test stand:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @4.5 GHz
- CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15
- Motherboard: MSI Z97 MPOWER
- Storage: SSD Patriot Blast 480 GB
- RAM: DDR3-2400, 2x 8 GB
- Power supply: Corsair HX850i, 850W
- Operating system: Windows 10 x64
- Drivers: NVIDIA — 368.19; AMD — 16.5.2.1
Testing the card was held in a large number of games. For all applications exhibited maximum graphics quality settings, but NVIDIA (fur, HairWorks, etc.) were not used. Screenshots with detailed data posted in the same gallery. The only thing: to Ultra HD resolution, antialiasing off. Unnecessary. The graphs shows the average and minimum FPS.
I note one important point. In comparison, in addition to GeForce GTX 1070, took part three of the video card. GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition and Radeon R9 X — references. But ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the brightest representative of the customization of the accelerators NVIDIA graphics. He’s already factory overclocked processor (1000 MHz to 1190 MHz) and memory (from 1750 MHz to 1800 MHz). So interesting.
ASUS STRIX GeForce GTX 980 Ti (STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3OC-6GD5)
DirectX 11 and OpenGL
So, to compare GeForce GTX 1070 I’ll be with the leaders, but everyone understands that the novelty has come to replace the GeForce GTX 970. For example, in the benchmark Heaven the second time-Maxwell Pascal is ahead by 69% in Full HD resolution! With increasing load the difference between the GeForce and the GeForce GTX 1070 GTX 970 is increasing. Well, it turns out a very interesting picture. The transition from 28-nanometer process technology of 16 nanometers has provided great productivity gains for both the flagships of th series. Nice to know.
GeForce GTX 1070 ahead of GeForce GTX 970 by 70-80%!
The second point. GeForce GTX 1070 really ahead of the reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti. And even GeForce GTX TITAN X! At least, in Heaven and Metro: Last Light. Then again, I’m going to compare the new product with the overclocked version of the flagship Maxwell. The frequency at which functioned adapters are listed.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in Heaven 4.0
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Metro: Last Light
For example, in the third “the Witcher”, GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition overclocknet inferior to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti 7.3% in Full HD 9.7% in WQHD and 10.9% in Ultra HD, respectively. With increasing load the difference between these graphics accelerators is increasing. At the same time, the younger Pascal lags behind the GeForce GTX 1080 is 14.6%, 23.6% and 25.9 per cent. Overclocking GeForce GTX 1070 reduces the gap, but to catch up with the default “eightieth thousand” does not allow.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition the Witcher 3: wild Hunt
In GTA V, Far Cry 4 and Fallout 4 has a similar situation: the overclocked GeForce GTX 980 Ti consistently outperforms GeForce GTX 1070. The biggest difference between the cards is observed in Pascal resolutions WQHD and Ultra HD. In Full HD these cards if you use a monitor with interlaced 60 Hz, redundant. On the one hand. On the other hand, felt decent margin GeForce GTX 1070 at 1080p.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in GTA V, Far Cry 4 and Fallout 4
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in GTA V, Far Cry 4 and Fallout 4
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in GTA V, Far Cry 4 and Fallout 4
In Need For Speed in Full HD resolution all three NVIDIA card showed the similar result. I think the “problem” was the processor. But the stand is used overclocked to 4.5 GHz Core i7-4790K!
Performance GeForce GTX 1070 comparable to GeForce GTX 980 Ti
In WQHD younger “Pascal” conceded the older version natural of 21.5%. Ultra HD is the difference between adapters only increased to 26.6%. Effect of the large bandwidth and higher clock speed of the chip and memory. At the same time, with higher resolution closer and closer to the GeForce GTX 1070 is selected Radeon R9 X.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in Need For Speed
Here in DOOM in OpenGL-game — in all resolutions flagship AMD is already ahead of the second Pascal. However, manual overclock GeForce GTX 1070 corrects this situation. “Red” cards, as we know, is very bad to pursue.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in DOOM
In General, GeForce GTX 1070 behaves predictable. It is a little inferior to the overclocked GeForce GTX 980 Ti, but consistently ahead of the Radeon R9 X except just reviewed DOOM. More tests in the games you will find in the main gallery of article.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront and Call of Duty: Black Ops III
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront and Call of Duty: Black Ops III
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition in Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars: Battlefront and Call of Duty: Black Ops III
DirectX 12
In the review of the GeForce GTX 1080 in practice, we found that the Pascal architecture fundamentally improves the functioning of the asynchronous computation in games DirectX 12. Until improves. At the moment, with the new API looks preferable to AMD solutions. However, this does not prevent the GeForce GTX 1080 to outpace the Radeon R9 X in all cases. But GeForce GTX 1070 is simply not up to the flagship “red”. Well, as it does not hold. Quantum Break, for example, WQHD younger “Pascal” lost elder “Fiji” only 3 frames per second. A small difference, frankly.
Architecture Pascal does not require major improvements to asynchronous computing
Similar results were observed in other games: Gears of War, Forza Motorsport 6: the Apex, HITMAN, Ashes of Singularity graphics with these games located in the main gallery.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Quantum Break
Here is another example. I have access to the DX12 version of Total War: Warhammer. As you can see, in this game GeForce GTX 1070 again lost to the Radeon R9 X, but the flagship “red” in turn, inferior to the overclocked GeForce GTX 980 Ti.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Total War: Warhammer
Calculations
As for computing, the GeForce GTX 1070 expected is inferior to the GeForce GTX 1080, but in the same SPECviewperf 12 in two of the seven tests ahead of the Radeon R9 X. it is Noteworthy that the new Pascal architecture are perfectly manifest themselves in mining. Presumably, the denser packing of streaming multiprocessors in a cluster GPC. Well and frequency.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. SPECviewperf 12
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. CompuBench
Ray tracing is traditionally better on the NVIDIA, but the calculation in double precision is to the AMD GCN architecture, respectively.
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. LuxMark
The test results of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. SiSoftware Sandra 2016
In conclusion
The second subframe NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 — clearly failed. If you judge the product at the recommended price, then Pascal Junior version Founders Edition costs 20 000 rubles cheaper than the GeForce GTX 1080, but inferior to the more productive fellow on average 20-25%. That is, the product shows similar to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti performance. Acceleration similar to reduce the goal deficit is not possible, but to throw off 10-15% is realistic. Given the fact that the GeForce GTX 1070 manifests itself perfectly in games at 1080p and 1440p, then chase a faster graphics card, and at the same time to pay 20 000 roubles personally, I do not see sense. The margin of safety is considered today a decent graphics card.
I repeat: summer 2016 — a good time to upgrade the system. To suit GeForce GTX 1070? For example, all those who have sat on the cards of the GeForce GTX 770 and below, but have long wished to buy a new 3D accelerator. I believe that the owners of GeForce GTX 970/980 video cards and analogs from AMD it makes sense to use their devices for another year or two. In most cases these graphics in Full HD still draw the game at the maximum. Or at least wait for the moment when the sale will be a large number of custom modifications GeForce GTX 1070, which will be faster, quieter and cooler, but it is cheaper Founders Edition.
The second category of users is gamers who want to switch from Full HD to WQHD. In 4K “seventies” feeling not so confident. Everything here looks preferable to the GeForce GTX 1080.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
Pros:
Cons:
- High performance;
- Low power consumption;
- Quiet operation, efficient cooling;
- Good overclocking potential.
- Inflated price for version Founders Edition.
Which processor you need NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070