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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread

Stumpokapow said:
If it was $200, performed above a 970 (i.e. quite good on all games at high settings at 1080p), and had a lower TDP/less heat than the 970, that'd be really really dope.
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I'm actually more interested in the 1050, if they can put the card below the 74W TDP mark again. I upgraded my HTPC recently and with my SFF case I can't go all out on the PSU (currently a cheap 300W, a good Seasonic 350W max), so no external power connector would be really great. The 950 was a disappointment in that regard and the lower power cards came out only a couple of months ago.
 
Vinterbird said:
I gave up trying to overclock my CPU becauae it was a insurmountable task to me. Overclocking a GPU seems to be in the same ballpark of beyond me.

The fact i could build my PC without breaking anything is a achievement in my book.
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There are many easy to use guides out there depending on your chip, and the PC thread here will also help you out quite happily.

But literally, the GPU is a few sliders, test, adjust as required. It's really simple.
 
Which 1070 is expected to be the card to buy? There's a lot of different partners out there and EVGA alone seems to sell like 5 different versions of a single card.
 
OkayRene said:
Which 1070 is expected to be the card to buy? There's a lot of different partners out there and EVGA alone seems to sell like 5 different versions of a single card.
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If the past is anything to go by, you would be fine with EVGA, Gigabyte, or Asus.

Remains to be seen though of course.
 
OkayRene said:
Which 1070 is expected to be the card to buy? There's a lot of different partners out there and EVGA alone seems to sell like 5 different versions of a single card.
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Many people will go with EVGA just for their warranty, customer support, and trade up program. It's not like they make poor cards either, either mid-pack or top tier performance. I tend to go with them or Zotac usually.
 
Do we know when preorders are expected to open? UK ideally but a general idea would be good too. Want it get in quickly to avoid too much delay (already sold my 970).

Had a 1080 preorder but cancelled it as I couldn't justify the cost. Also I figure things in the GPU world will be turbulent for a while as they adjust to the new node and get bigger chips, plus HBM. So the 1080ti/11xx might be big improvements and I think the 1070 will hold its price better than the 1080 which seems priced for a profit and is likely to get a big drop when later models release.

And if I go with an EVGA card I could potentially do the step up to the 1080 later on which would spread the cost.
 
mrklaw said:
Do we know when preorders are expected to open? UK ideally but a general idea would be good too. Want it get in quickly to avoid too much delay (already sold my 970).

Had a 1080 preorder but cancelled it as I couldn't justify the cost. Also I figure things in the GPU world will be turbulent for a while as they adjust to the new node and get bigger chips, plus HBM. So the 1080ti/11xx might be big improvements and I think the 1070 will hold its price better than the 1080 which seems priced for a profit and is likely to get a big drop when later models release.

And if I go with an EVGA card I could potentially do the step up to the 1080 later on which would spread the cost.
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Yeah, I'm curious too about when it will be available.

The 1080 seemed to become available very quickly...you can order builds from YoyoTech (for example) right now, have been able to for a week or so. Nothing about the 1070 on their site yet.
 
gofreak said:
Yeah, I'm curious too about when it will be available.

The 1080 seemed to become available very quickly...you can order builds from YoyoTech (for example) right now, have been able to for a week or so. Nothing about the 1070 on their site yet.
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1080 preorders were available on launch day. I'm assuming the 1070 will be the same thing.
 
We're building a relatively future-proofed rig (at least for a few years) for VR (a Vive) for a middle school afterschool program I work with, and have decided to put a 1070 in there. All the rest of the parts are ordered and shipped and now it's just a matter of trying to snag a 1070 at launch next Friday, instead of a lengthy delay; would love to have the whole thing up and running for the youth by the end of June.

Never gone in on a card at its launch so any advice on what vendor I ought to be looking at in terms of reliably ordering one? Is it likely to be available at midnight on the 10th (and what timezone) or later in the day? Thanks!
 
Fushichou187 said:
We're building a relatively future-proofed rig (at least for a few years) for VR (a Vive) for a middle school afterschool program I work with, and have decided to put a 1070 in there. All the rest of the parts are ordered and shipped and now it's just a matter of trying to snag a 1070 at launch next Friday, instead of a lengthy delay; would love to have the whole thing up and running for the youth by the end of June.

Never gone in on a card at its launch so any advice on what vendor I ought to be looking at in terms of reliably ordering one? Is it likely to be available at midnight on the 10th (and what timezone) or later in the day? Thanks!
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If VR is done right, it'll be the last thing you can future-proof.
 
Kieli said:
If VR is done right, it'll be the last thing you can future-proof.
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Not super helpful for the question I was asking, but to your specific point, I have to disagree. For the parts we're getting for this rig, and the scope with which it is going to be used in an educational context, it'll be fine for next few years.
 
MSI announces 4 custom GTX 1070s

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Damn, a couple > 1600MHz out of the box

I could never get down with a red nvidia card though, and I even have an MSI board
 
Do you think that non-FE cards will be easy to get by the end of June? My birthday's is on the last week of June and I wanted to give myself a nice treat :)
 
holygeesus said:
I notice in this video review, he manages to overclock his FE 1070 to a decent-ish 30% which is a fair improvement on the 10-15% overclocks being hit on the 1080

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmfMfhRI6To

With those kind of OCs it will be interesting to see how close the 1070 can get to the 1080.
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I haven't seen this posted yet:

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/nvidia_geforcegtx_1070_overclocking/

The answer is it doesn't seem to close the gap. Interesting DX12 result in Hitman where both cards have a bigger lead over Maxwell. Also interesting is how the 1070 seems to struggle at 4k in The Division. Not quite sure of the testing methodology though so this might be an outlier.
 
Soooooo what should I do with my Titan X now? Sell it quick? Will any of those Japanese Electronic stores buy it? Pretty sad tbh I've only had it for 7 months.

Any downsampling results?

Edit: nvm just checked FML man sigh. If I can sell it for a good price I will. Still the same price on amazon :S
 
I'll put my 970 on sale tomorrow. I'll probably get a 1070 STRIX if it's as good as the 970 STRIX on a temperature/noise level. I don't want a leaf blower in my PC...
 
From overclockers forum

GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Founders Edition


SKU: ZT-P10700A-10P
Mfr#: ZT-P10700A-10P
£304.89 + VAT


That is about £365 including VAT. And founders editions are the more expensive ones so maybe we'll see custom cards around £350? Seems a good price
 
Jabo said:
Soooooo what should I do with my Titan X now? Sell it quick? Will any of those Japanese Electronic stores buy it? Pretty sad tbh I've only had it for 7 months.

Any downsampling results?

Edit: nvm just checked FML man sigh. If I can sell it for a good price I will. Still the same price on amazon :S
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Wait for the next Titan? I mean, why would you sell it now if it's still pretty much the 2nd fastest card on the market?

Durante said:
That The Division result is inexplicable.
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I wonder if something goes off in 4K there. Like DCC suddenly bugging out for some reason. Will probably be fixed with drivers.
 
dr_rus said:
Wait for the next Titan? I mean, why would you sell it now if it's still pretty much the 2nd fastest card on the market?



I wonder if something goes off in 4K there. Like DCC suddenly bugging out for some reason. Will probably be fixed with drivers.
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Kinda short on cash tbh
 
Jabo said:
Kinda short on cash tbh
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Even more so if you sell it now and get 1070 which will give you the same performance you'll probably loose more than if you'll just wait for faster cards. But it's your decision obviously. If you can sell it for ~2x more than 1070's cost then it makes sense.
 
I'm expecting custom partner card prices to come in around 450€ here in Europe.

It's kinda crazy that we're a week from launch of the 1070 FE and have no price or release info on the custom cards yet. I suppose nvidia wants the focus to be on their (better-margin) FE as long as possible.
 
Can wait to see what EVGA can do to get this card to fit into my Alienware X51 R2. Still rocking a GTX 660 1.5GB OEM and this would be the perfect upgrade for my box
 
will have to choose between...

EVGA FTW
MSI Gaming X
ASUS ROG Strix

hopefully full details for each come out before they're available to buy/pre-order

decisions, decisions
 
brotkasten said:
I'm actually more interested in the 1050, if they can put the card below the 74W TDP mark again.
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You and me both. Considering Nvidia went from a 170W TDP 760 to a 90W TDP 950 with similar performance (and later 75W version), Nvidia could potentially make quite a strong (sub) 75W GPU. Pascal seems quite efficient if, just like Maxwell, it can take the performance of the previous 250W GPU and do it in 145W again. Given that, I wouldn't be surprised if, based on that 760 => 950 efficiency gain, that a ~75W GPU from Nvidia could potentially get near a 970 (145W) in performance since that would be a smaller jump than that 170W to 90W was.
 
dr_rus said:
Even more so if you sell it now and get 1070 which will give you the same performance you'll probably loose more than if you'll just wait for faster cards. But it's your decision obviously. If you can sell it for ~2x more than 1070's cost then it makes sense.
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Yeah true I guess.

Tacklemacain said:
Maybe just wait for Volta or the 1080ti and dont buy the Titian equivalent, if you dont want to spend that much money on a GPU.
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Probably gonna do that yep.
 
Fushichou187 said:
We're building a relatively future-proofed rig (at least for a few years) for VR (a Vive) for a middle school afterschool program I work with, and have decided to put a 1070 in there. All the rest of the parts are ordered and shipped and now it's just a matter of trying to snag a 1070 at launch next Friday, instead of a lengthy delay; would love to have the whole thing up and running for the youth by the end of June.

Never gone in on a card at its launch so any advice on what vendor I ought to be looking at in terms of reliably ordering one? Is it likely to be available at midnight on the 10th (and what timezone) or later in the day? Thanks!
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I hate to break it to you but at this point building a VR proof machine is either impossible or very improbable. VR Hardware is very early tech, with the current displays running at low resolution. At this current point headsets are about as demanding as 2k resolution monitors, and for that hardware to improve it's low resolution it's going to become exponentially more demanding. Theoretically, that is...

Because VR software is also very early tech. And currently there is a lot of research going on to figure out how we're going to optimize game engines to make them less resource intensive. Nvidia made a solution with their Pascal gpus but we don't know if engines will implement that. Maybe they will, or maybe there's going to be a big solution down to road that will be implemented by post Pascal cards and the Pascal gpu line (and others gpus that preceded it) will be made obsolete. Maybe AMD figures out a much better solution and now your Nvidia card is lagging behind in benchmarks. There's also research going into that technique where the game renders less the more it's outside the center of your view, maybe that's the future too, but that could require new headsets as well.

Or VR could straight up die on PC! Or lose what little AAA support it has already. Or maybe it takes off in a big way!

If I was building a VR exclusive machine I'd probably snatch a AMD 480 for $200 and then continue to at what the VR and GPU landscape is going to be in 2017. I mean, $800 (which is actually closer to $900 due to shipping and tax) is a pretty huge investment as well and the software isn't really... Well, there's not a system seller. Maybe you're better off waiting until next year to hop into VR. At least then manufacturing could become cheaper and the headset market becomes more competitive when the other big manufacturers start releasing headsets. The influx of China manufactured VR headsets could plummet the price too.
 
belmonkey said:
You and me both. Considering Nvidia went from a 170W TDP 760 to a 90W TDP 950 with similar performance (and later 75W version), Nvidia could potentially make quite a strong (sub) 75W GPU. Pascal seems quite efficient if, just like Maxwell, it can take the performance of the previous 250W GPU and do it in 145W again. Given that, I wouldn't be surprised if, based on that 760 => 950 efficiency gain, that a ~75W GPU from Nvidia could potentially get near a 970 (145W) in performance since that would be a smaller jump than that 170W to 90W was.
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That's pretty optimistic, but not likely. If the gains were the same as Kepler to Maxwell, the 1070 would have a roughly 125W TDP and the 1080 under 150W. The efficiency gain is more like 56% this time based on my calculations using the 980 and 1080 in TPU's review along with the gaming peak power consumption numbers, and that calculation brings the TDP of a 970-level card to around 95W. However, that's not apples-to-apples since one was a calculation of TDP and the other of power consumption. Unfortunately, TPU never reviewed a reference 970 so I can't use an accurate measurement.
 
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