Geforce Gtx 1070 Founders Edition Test

The GTX 1080'southward epochal launch all but overshadowed its cut-downwards counterpart – that is, until the price was unveiled. NVidia's GTX 1070 is promised at an initial $450 toll-point for the Founders Edition (explained here), or an MSRP of $380 for lath partner models. The GTX 1070 replaces nVidia's GTX 970 in the vertical, but promises superior functioning to previous high-stop models like the 980 and 980 Ti; we'll validate those claims in our testing beneath, following an initial compages overview.

The GeForce GTX 1070 ($450) uses a Pascal GP104-200 chip. The architecture is identical to the GTX 1080 and its GP104-400 GPU, just cuts-downwards on SM presence (and core count) to create a mid-range version of the new 16nm FinFET architecture. This new node from TSMC is nearly half the size of Maxwell's 28nm Planar process, and switches the company over to FinFET transistor architecture for reduced power leakage and overall improved performance-per-watt efficiency. The trend is symptomatic of an industry trending toward ever-smaller devices with a greater concern on the ability envelope, and has been reflected in nVidia's architectures since Fermi (GTX 400 series running notoriously hot) and AMD's since Fiji (sort of – Polaris claims to make a bigger push button in this management). On the CPU side, Intel has been driving this trend for several generations now, its 10nm process making promises to farther extend mobile device endurance and transistor density.

Before getting started, here'due south a list of relevant Pascal & GTX 1080 manufactures we wrote:

• NVidia Pascal GP100 Architecture Overview

• GTX 1080 Founders Edition Review & In-Depth Criterion (9000 words!)

• Building Our Own GTX 1080 Hybrid – Vehement Apart the Founders Edition

• Building Our Own GTX 1080 Hybrid – Performance Results

• What We Learned from Our GTX 1080 Hybrid Experiment

Our review of the GTX 1070 Founders Edition graphics card will compare it vs. the GTX 1080, 980 Ti, 970 (and more) and AMD'south R9 Fury Ten & R9 390X. We'll look at operation (FPS) benchmarks and our specialized thermal testing with endurance (clock-rate vs. time) burn-in. These tests explore major points of issue for new GPUs, and provide a closer look at existent-earth gaming performance. Nosotros're in Taipei, Taiwan correct now for Computex, and so we've culled a few tests due to travel complications. Ability depict did not arrive into this review.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs. GTX 1080, 980 Ti, 970, & 390X [Video]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Specs vs. 1080, 970, 980 Ti

NVIDIA Pascal vs. Maxwell Specs Comparison
	Tesla P100	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	GTX 980 Ti	GTX 980	GTX 970
GPU	GP100 Cut-Down Pascal	GP104-400 Pascal	GP104-200 Pascal	GM200 Maxwell	GM204 Maxwell	GM204
Transistor Count	15.3B	vii.2B	seven.2B	8B	5.2B	5.2B
Fab Procedure	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	28nm	28nm	28nm
CUDA Cores	3584	2560	1920	2816	2048	1664
GPCs	half-dozen	4	three	6	4	4
SMs	56	twenty	fifteen	22	16	13
TPCs	28 TPCs	twenty TPCs	fifteen	-	-	-
TMUs	224	160	120	176	128	104
ROPs	96 (?)	64	64	96	64	56
Core Clock	1328MHz	1607MHz	1506MHz	1000MHz	1126MHz	1050MHz
Heave Clock	1480MHz	1733MHz	1683MHz	1075MHz	1216MHz	1178MHz
FP32 TFLOPs	10.6TFLOPs	9TFLOPs	six.5TFLOPs	5.63TFLOPs	5TFLOPs	3.9TFLOPs
Memory Type	HBM2	GDDR5X	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Capacity	16GB	8GB	8GB	6GB	4GB	4GB
Memory Clock	?	10Gbps GDDR5X	4006MHz	7Gbps GDDR5	7Gbps GDDR5	7Gbps
Retentivity Interface	4096-fleck	256-bit	256-bit	384-bit	256-fleck	256-fleck
Retentivity Bandwidth	?	320.32GB/due south	256GB/s	336GB/s	224GB/southward	224GB/s
TDP	300W	180W	150W	250W	165W	148W
Power Connectors	?	1x 8-pin	1x eight-pin	1x eight-pin 1x six-pin	2x 6-pin	2x 6-pin
Release Date	4Q16-1Q17	5/27/2016	half dozen/x/2016	6/01/2015	9/18/2014	9/19/2014
Release Price	TBD (Several thousand)	Reference: $700 MSRP: $600	Reference: $450 MSRP: $380	$650	$550	$330

Architecture Revisit – GP104-200 Simultaneous Multiprocessors, GPCs, TPCs

The GTX 1070 utilizes the same Pascal GP104 architecture as found on the GTX 1080, though the *-200 subversion (rather than *-400) does bring some changes. Those changes are mostly to core count and clock speed.

The silicon is the aforementioned, the architecture is by and large the same, but the dice has been somewhat simplified on the GTX 1070 to reduce price. The heart of the chip is still 16nm FinFET design, which operates at slightly lower voltage than planar process and exhibits less power leakage than planar. Datapath optimizations are as well in-place for functioning improvements, something we spent a few g words on in our 1080 review.

(In a higher place: The GP104-400 block diagram. Remove one GPC -- that'due south basically GP104-200.)

(Higher up: SM architecture on Pascal / GP104.)

NVidia'southward GTX 1070 runs xv SMs rather than the twenty SMs of GP104-400, reducing core count to 1920 and TMUs to 120 (capable of 202GT/s). The clock boosts to 1683MHz, but has OC headroom that we play with after in this review.

Another major change from the 1080 is the GTX 1070'south usage of GDDR5 8Gbps memory, rather than the new GDDR5X 10Gbps memory of the GTX 1080. This reduces price of the bill of fare by mounting a more ubiquitous retention platform to the device.

To acquire about asynchronous compute and memory subsystems on Pascal, check out our 9000-word review on the GTX 1080.

Game Exam Methodology

Nosotros tested using our GPU test bench, detailed in the table below. Our thank you to supporting hardware vendors for supplying some of the test components.

The latest AMD drivers (16.15.two.1 Doom-fix) were used for testing. NVidia'due south unreleased press drivers were used for game (FPS) testing. Game settings were manually controlled for the DUT. All games were run at presets defined in their respective charts. We disable brand-supported technologies in games, similar The Witcher 3's HairWorks and HBAO. All other game settings are defined in respective game benchmarks, which we publish separately from GPU reviews. Our test courses, in the event manual testing is executed, are besides uploaded within that content. This allows others to replicate our results by studying our bench courses.

Windows 10-64 build 10586 was used for testing.

Each game was tested for 30 seconds in an identical scenario, so repeated iii times for parity. Some games take multiple settings or APIs under exam, leaving our test matrix to look something like this:

	Ashes	Talos	Tomb Raider	Division	GTA 5	MLL	Mordor	BLOPS3	Thermal	Power	Racket
NVIDIA CARDS
GTX 1080	4K Crazy 4K High 1080 High Dx12 & Dx11	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p UltraVulkan & Dx11	4K VH 1440p VH 1080p VHDx12 & Dx11	4K High 1440p Loftier 1080p High	4K VHU 1080 VHU	4K HH 1440p VHH 1080p VHH	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p Ultra	4K High 1440p High 1080p High	Yes	Yeah	Yes
GTX 980 Ti	4K Crazy 4K High 1080 Loftier Dx12 & Dx11	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p UltraVulkan & Dx11	4K VH 1440p VH 1080p VHDx12 & Dx11	4K High 1440p High 1080p High	4K VHU 1080 VHU	4K HH 1440p VHH 1080p VHH	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p Ultra	4K High 1440p High 1080p Loftier	Aye	Yep	Yes
GTX 980	4K Crazy 4K High 1080 High Dx12 & Dx11	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p UltraVulkan & Dx11	4K VH 1440p VH 1080p VHDx12 & Dx11	4K High 1440p High 1080p High	4K VHU 1080 VHU	4K HH 1440p VHH 1080p VHH	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p Ultra	4K High 1440p Loftier 1080p High	Yes	Yeah	Aye
AMD CARDS
AMD R9 390X	4K Crazy 4K High 1080 High Dx12 & Dx11	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p UltraVulkan & Dx11	4K VH 1440p VH 1080p VHDx12 & Dx11	4K Loftier 1440p High 1080p High	4K VHU 1080 VHU	4K HH 1440p VHH 1080p VHH	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p Ultra	4K High 1440p Loftier 1080p Loftier	Yes	Yes	No
AMD Fury X	4K Crazy 4K High 1080 Loftier Dx12 & Dx11	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p UltraVulkan & Dx11	4K VH 1440p VH 1080p VHDx12 & Dx11	4K High 1440p High 1080p High	4K VHU 1080 VHU	4K HH 1440p VHH 1080p VHH	4K Ultra 1440p Ultra 1080p Ultra	4K High 1440p Loftier 1080p High	Yes	Yes	Yes

Boilerplate FPS, 1% low, and 0.1% depression times are measured. We do not measure maximum or minimum FPS results as we consider these numbers to be pure outliers. Instead, we take an average of the lowest 1% of results (1% low) to prove real-world, noticeable dips; we and so have an boilerplate of the lowest 0.1% of results for severe spikes.

GN Exam Bench 2015	Proper name	Courtesy Of	Toll
Video Carte du jour	This is what we're testing!	-	-
CPU	Intel i7-5930K CPU	iBUYPOWER	$580
Retentivity	Corsair Dominator 32GB 3200MHz	Corsair	$210
Motherboard	EVGA X99 Classified	GamersNexus	$365
Power Supply	NZXT 1200W HALE90 V2	NZXT	$300
SSD	HyperX Vicious SSD	Kingston Tech.	$130
Case	Pinnacle Deck Tech Station	GamersNexus	$250
CPU Cooler	NZXT Kraken X41 CLC	NZXT	$110

For Dx12 and Vulkan API testing, we employ built-in criterion tools and rely upon log generation for our metrics. That data is reported at the engine level.

Video Cards Tested

• NVIDIA GTX 1080 Founders Edition ($700)
• NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti Reference ($650)
• NVIDIA GTX 980 Reference ($460)
• NVIDIA GTX 980 2x SLI Reference ($920)
• AMD R9 Fury X 4GB HBM ($630)
• AMD MSI R9 390X 8GB ($460)

Thermal Test Methodology

We strongly believe that our thermal testing methodology is the all-time on this side of the tech-media industry. We've validated our testing methodology with thermal chambers and have proven almost-perfect accuracy of results.

Conducting thermal tests requires careful measurement of temperatures in the surrounding environment. We control for ambience by constantly measuring temperatures with Chiliad-Type thermocouples and infrared readers. We then produce charts using a Delta T(emperature) over Ambient value. This value subtracts the thermo-logged ambient value from the measured diode temperatures, producing a delta study of thermals. AIDA64 is used for logging thermals of silicon components, including the GPU diode. Nosotros additionally log core utilization and frequencies to ensure all components are firing as expected. Voltage levels are measured in addition to fan speeds, frequencies, and thermals. GPU-Z is deployed for redundancy and validation against AIDA64.

All open bench fans are configured to their maximum speed and continued straight to the PSU. This ensures minimal variance when testing, as automatically controlled fan speeds will reduce reliability of benchmarking. The CPU fan is set to use a custom fan curve that was devised in-firm afterwards a series of testing. We use a custom-congenital open air demote that mounts the CPU radiator out of the manner of the airflow channels influencing the GPU, and so the CPU heat is dumped where information technology will take no measurable impact on GPU temperatures.

We use an AMPROBE multi-diode thermocouple reader to log ambient actively. This ambient measurement is used to monitor fluctuations and is subtracted from absolute GPU diode readings to produce a delta value. For these tests, nosotros configured the thermocouple reader'southward logging interval to 1s, matching the logging interval of GPU-Z and AIDA64. Data is calculated using a custom, in-firm spreadsheet and software solution.

Endurance tests are conducted for new architectures or devices of detail interest, like the GTX 1080, R9 Fury 10, or GTX 980 Ti Hybrid from EVGA. These endurance tests written report temperature versus frequency (sometimes versus FPS), providing a look at how cards interact in real-earth gaming scenarios over extended periods of fourth dimension. Because benchmarks do non inherently burn-in a card for a reasonable play menstruum, we use this test method as a internet to isolate and observe issues of thermal throttling or frequency tolerance to temperature.

Our test starts with a two-infinitesimal idle flow to gauge non-gaming performance. A script automatically triggers the beginning of a GPU-intensive benchmark running MSI Kombustor – Titan Lakes for 1080s. Because nosotros use an in-business firm script, we are able to perfectly execute and align our tests betwixt passes.

Source: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/2453-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-founders-edition-review?showall=1

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