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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread

QuantumBro said:
So I got and set it up. Surprised myself at how massive the card was. All the images are based off of running Dark Souls at 4k (which gets around 40-55fps).

*snip*

I'll mess with overclocking later., not in the mood right now.

As for noise, fans are pretty quiet, getting drowned out with any sound. Compared to the ps4, it's nothing. Got a steam link so it was never much of an issue anyways.

About to start playing doom, I'll be back in a bit.
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Interesting. It still stays pretty damn cool. I wonder how true that'll be after overclocking though. The boost also seems a little lower than I'd expect. There seems to be quite a bit of variation between cards with GPU Boost 3.0.
 
MSI 1070 Gaming X acquired! Haven't played around much with overclocking but was able to pretty easily get 2100mhz+ core on 3dmark. Will have to mess around for stability I'm sure though.

But yeah, this card is beastly! It's like my old MSI 970.. but bigger.
 
Iced said:
Anyone who has received their $399 Gigabyte 1070 Windforce from Newegg: post impressions! We're dying to know!
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I received mine today and been gaming on it.

For Witcher 3 my OC results had me averaging 1950 core and 2290 memory clocks. Not the best OC. Maybe I can increase a little without artifacting, but I prefer 1 OC profile for all my games.

The temp was about 75 C and fans ran about 67%. Which to me made a hardly noticeable amount of noise.
 
Overclocking results:

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0
FPS: 92.0
Score:3849
Min FPS:21.9
Max FPS:157.6
System Platform:Windows 8 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz (3191MHz) x4
GPU model:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 10.18.13.6839 (4095MB) x1
Settings Render:Direct3D11
Mode:1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset: Extreme HD

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Quick question, have the manufacturer non-founders edition of the GTX 1070 been released? Cause none of the sites seem to have them in stock here in Sweden, are we late or are they just really damn quickly getting sold out?

Edit: Nvm, I found some, just a lot of them seem to be sold out.

Follow up then, which of the manufacturers' cards seems the best for someone who wants as much as possible out of it but doesn't spend time overclocking or similar stuff?
 
Parsnip said:
Cpu bottleneck maybe?
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WoW will always be CPU bottlenecked. All MMOs are and on top of that I don't think there's a single entry on the market that properly utilizes a quad core even. I assume there's a reason for that, but it's above my knowledge.
 
ekim said:
Thinking about upgrading from an EVGA 970 SSC. Is it worth it for 1080p considering I also have a G-Sync monitor?
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I wouldn't recommend it. Likely overkill for 1080p. Keep using your 970 with Gsync and wait for prices to drop and or new cards to appear. You'll absolutely be fine for a while yet. You may occasionally have to lower a setting or two to get 60+fps but honestly with Gsync you really don't have to worry about it. Even if you didn't like me (I have a 970 and MG279Q Free-sync monitor) it's still beyond most games at 1080p right now. In fact I've been able to play quite a few at 1440p. Overwatch, mirrors edge, Doom etc with good fps.
 
TharpDaddy said:
You ever figure out what your issue is? Just tested Ryse myself and hovering around 40fps on the first level at only 1080p.
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Ryse is running super shit for me also. Everything on high, 1080p, super sampling off and I get like 40 - 60 FPS, usually hanging out in the low 50s.

980 Ti benchmarks show it doing much better than that. I have a 2500k at 4.5 GHz which might bring it down some, but at 1080 I would expect like 80 FPS based off 980 Ti performance.
 
dr_rus said:
Why ask the question when you can just view the benchmarks?

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https://www.computerbase.de/2016-06...-test/4/#diagramm-performancerating-1920-1080

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https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1070/24.html

It would certainly worth it to me, if only for the additional VRAM.
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But why upgrade when they are only doing 1080p. Unless they're trying to get near 100fps on ultra settings. The prices will drop and the 970 is more than capable of handling 1080p games for now. If that changes down the line then sure jump to the 1070. But as a prospect of worth it right now? I think it's unnecessary. Especially with Gsync. Of course they were exactly clear with what they wanted exactly beyond 1080p which is pretty broad.
 
Aztechnology said:
But why upgrade when they are only doing 1080p. Unless they're trying to get near 100fps on ultra settings. The prices will drop and the 970 is more than capable of handling 1080p games for now. If that changes down the line then sure jump to the 1070. But as a prospect of worth it right now? I think it's unnecessary. Especially with Gsync. Of course they were exactly clear with what they wanted exactly beyond 1080p which is pretty broad.
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Oh well. I would love to be able to have Overwatch run at constant 144fps on Ultra :P Now it's around 130-140. Downsampling would also be a nice to have because 1080p on a 27inch screen directly in front of you would surely benefit from that. Other than that I preferably target 1080p at a constant 60FPS. Here is hoping DX12 performance isn't artificially butchered on the 970 to make people buy a 10X0 card. I plan on buying a lot of Xbox Play Anywhere titles with FH3 being the first.
 
Aztechnology said:
But why upgrade when they are only doing 1080p. Unless they're trying to get near 100fps on ultra settings. The prices will drop and the 970 is more than capable of handling 1080p games for now. If that changes down the line then sure jump to the 1070. But as a prospect of worth it right now? I think it's unnecessary. Especially with Gsync. Of course they were exactly clear with what they wanted exactly beyond 1080p which is pretty broad.
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These are similar to the arguments used for people wondering if they should upgrade to a 970 for 1080p two years ago. Just a thought. Honestly, you'd be surprised how many games you can't 100% max out at 1080p with even an overclocked 1070. It sounds like he has a 144Hz monitor and wants to try downsampling though, so that does bring some value to the card.

Also, what's "broad" about beyond 1080? Excluding 21:9 and multi-monitor, there's 1440p (which is a good match for the 1070) and 4k (which is still too much for a single card in demanding titles). I do think it makes sense to wait if he can, though. I just jumped because I wanted the new card for the summer.
 
Aztechnology said:
But why upgrade when they are only doing 1080p. Unless they're trying to get near 100fps on ultra settings. The prices will drop and the 970 is more than capable of handling 1080p games for now. If that changes down the line then sure jump to the 1070. But as a prospect of worth it right now? I think it's unnecessary. Especially with Gsync. Of course they were exactly clear with what they wanted exactly beyond 1080p which is pretty broad.
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By upgrading from 970 to 1070 you will get +50% of performance in 1080p specifically, you will get +4GB of VRAM for those newer games which tend to hit the 4GB limit and you'll get an updated Pascal architecture which is likely to fair better in newer titles.

This obviously is true if you're ok with paying the current 1070 price for that. If you're not then there's nothing else to upgrade to from 970 at the moment.

And on that 100 fps in 1080p on Ultra - that's an overgeneralization. 1070 doesn't pull 100 fps in 1080p in newest titles on Ultra and there's little reason to use older games for such comparisons.

To illustrate:
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And consider that all these are with Gameworks features off which no sane owner of a newest top GeForce card would ever setup like.
 
For some reason the default fan curve was not working on my FE out of the box, so my fan was running at a constant 30% speed, which is why my temps were getting so high. But setting up a custom fan curve in Afterburner works, and I can now keep my temps much lower. But now I understand where the blower gets is reputation for noise. This has me thinking even more about trying to get an AIB card.

ekim said:
Thinking about upgrading from an EVGA 970 SSC. Is it worth it for 1080p considering I also have a G-Sync monitor?
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A lot of people keep saying the 1070 is overkill for 1080p but I just don't agree at all. I had a 970 and upgraded to a 1070 and I'm glad I did. A few things that had trouble locking at 60 with my 970 run flawlessly now, and I also have the added benefit of being able to supersample to higher resolutions. But I'm the kind of person who always wants my games at the absolute max settings, so take that into account.

You also have to consider that the 10 series is going to get much more support going forward. Nvidia practically forgets their old cards exist when they release a new line.
 
MuchoMalo said:
These are similar to the arguments used for people wondering if they should upgrade to a 970 for 1080p two years ago. Just a thought. Honestly, you'd be surprised how many games you can't 100% max out at 1080p with even an overclocked 1070. It sounds like he has a 144Hz monitor and wants to try downsampling though, so that does bring some value to the card.

Also, what's "broad" about beyond 1080? Excluding 21:9 and multi-monitor, there's 1440p (which is a good match for the 1070) and 4k (which is still too much for a single card in demanding titles). I do think it makes sense to wait if he can, though. I just jumped because I wanted the new card for the summer.
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No I was saying all the person asked was "is it worth upgrading for 1080p" that's ind of Vague because there's more to it than that. Telling us what kind of framerate they are hoping to achieve would help. I didn't see the bit about down sampling. Personally I've tried it, but it's always seemed like a waste when you can get extra frames instead. For me I have only used it when the performance is just so high (over 100fps) that it just makes sense to leverage those extra frames for enhanced IQ. But DS is essentially just pushing an advanced form of AA at a very high cost. Personally rarely ever worth it to me. But I don't know how bothered they are by current AA so I can't really comment for them.
 
jrh2 said:
You also have to consider that the 10 series is going to get much more support going forward. Nvidia practically forgets their old cards exist when they release a new line.
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Maxwell will be supported just as good as Pascal. The difference may come from the fact that Pascal is actually better than Maxwell in handling some newer features.
 
jrh2 said:
For some reason the default fan curve was not working on my FE out of the box, so my fan was running at a constant 30% speed, which is why my temps were getting so high. But setting up a custom fan curve in Afterburner works, and I can now keep my temps much lower. But now I understand where the blower gets is reputation for noise. This has me thinking even more about trying to get an AIB card.
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That explains something for me that seemed odd; when I played Overwatch, right after putting the 1070FE in, the game said the card was at 80 degress, which seemed kind of high (even if it didn't go any higher). Then, playing a bit later, it didn't seem to go above 70 degrees (which was about what my 970 ran at); it seems that was after messing with fan curves in Afterburner, even though I barely changed it at all.
 
dr_rus said:
By upgrading from 970 to 1070 you will get +50% of performance in 1080p specifically, you will get +4GB of VRAM for those newer games which tend to hit the 4GB limit and you'll get an updated Pascal architecture which is likely to fair better in newer titles.

This obviously is true if you're ok with paying the current 1070 price for that. If you're not then there's nothing else to upgrade to from 970 at the moment.

And on that 100 fps in 1080p on Ultra - that's an overgeneralization. 1070 doesn't pull 100 fps in 1080p in newest titles on Ultra and there's little reason to use older games for such comparisons.

To illustrate:
acsyndicate_1920_1080.png
farcryprimal_1920_1080.png
hitman_1920_1080.png

And consider that all these are with Gameworks features off which no sane owner of a newest top GeForce card would ever setup like.
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Here are some reference 1070 bench scores from Guru3D. This is with stock clocks all at their highest respective settings.

Tomb Raider 108fps average All highest settings with Hairworks.

Doom 142fps

GTAV 152fps

Obviously like yours these are somewhat cherry picked examples serving the opposite purpose. But generally the base 1070 is doing upwards of 80+ fps on these games at 1080p, even higher when overcooked even moderately. IMO the 1070 is absolutely a 1440p card for early adopters. The 970 is doing a very good job on 1080p titles too for now so I don't see a rush or need to prep for games that where we don't even know the performance requirements of. All we can go off of is what we are seeing now, and there's not a great indication that someone playing at 1080p needs to jump to a 1070 now unless they aren't satisfied with 60fps. Sure a few setting might have to be lowered occasionally but by and large most people would barely be able to tell a difference in the sligjt settings changes if viewed side by side. Frankly I feel it's a non issue at this point and better to wait for better availability and potentially lower prices on the 1070. I personally hope we see price fall more into line with the MSRP within a few months.
 
CHC said:
Ryse is running super shit for me also. Everything on high, 1080p, super sampling off and I get like 40 - 60 FPS, usually hanging out in the low 50s.

980 Ti benchmarks show it doing much better than that. I have a 2500k at 4.5 GHz which might bring it down some, but at 1080 I would expect like 80 FPS based off 980 Ti performance.
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Dropped the settings to low and that barely got it stable above 60. Definitely just seems like a weird Ryse thing.

Maybe nvidia will release drivers fixing that hot new release of Ryse: Son of Rome
 
Aztechnology said:
Here are some reference 1070 bench scores from Guru3D. This is with stock clocks all at their highest respective settings.

Tomb Raider 108fps average All highest settings with Hairworks.

Doom 142fps

GTAV 152fps

Obviously like yours these are somewhat cherry picked examples serving the opposite purpose. But generally the base 1070 is doing upwards of 80+ fps on these games at 1080p, even higher when overcooked even moderately. IMO the 1070 is absolutely a 1440p card for early adopters. The 970 is doing a very good job on 1080p titles too for now so I don't see a rush or need to prep for games that where we don't even know the performance requirements of. All we can go off of is what we are seeing now, and there's not a great indication that someone playing at 1080p needs to jump to a 1070 now unless they aren't satisfied with 60fps. Sure a few setting might have to be lowered occasionally but by and large most people would barely be able to tell a difference in the sligjt settings changes if viewed side by side. Frankly I feel it's a non issue at this point and better to wait for better availability and potentially lower prices on the 1070. I personally hope we see price fall more into line with the MSRP within a few months.
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There is VXAO in TR, there is a ton of GW stuff in GTA5 most of which is usually disabled in benchmarks while enabled in practice by the users of new top end cards. It's really easy to push 1070 below even 60 fps in 1080p if you add some DSR on top of the game's settings. So no, it's in no way is an overkill for 1080p. You get more performance, you get more options on how to spend that power in your games. The average increase is +50% which is a lot, it's likely to be more than that in newer games which may hit the 970 VRAM limit even in 1080p.

The current price of 1070 being acceptable or not isn't something which you can decide for another person.

Knurek said:
I like your optimism.
I don't believe in your optimism, but I do like it.
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Sigh. There are no reasons why Maxwell will be less supported than Pascal. The architectures are very close, they both support the same DX11/12/OGL feature sets. The differences may arise from mixed graphics/compute usage and VR SMP usage but that's not due to support, it's due to Pascal h/w actually being more advanced than Maxwell h/w there. These differences are unlikely to be huge anyway. I expect that Maxwell's lack of VRAM (on 970/980 cards specifically) will be it's biggest sore point going forward.
 
Aztechnology said:
Here are some reference 1070 bench scores from Guru3D. This is with stock clocks all at their highest respective settings.

Tomb Raider 108fps average All highest settings with Hairworks.

Doom 142fps

GTAV 152fps

Obviously like yours these are somewhat cherry picked examples serving the opposite purpose. But generally the base 1070 is doing upwards of 80+ fps on these games at 1080p, even higher when overcooked even moderately. IMO the 1070 is absolutely a 1440p card for early adopters. The 970 is doing a very good job on 1080p titles too for now so I don't see a rush or need to prep for games that where we don't even know the performance requirements of. All we can go off of is what we are seeing now, and there's not a great indication that someone playing at 1080p needs to jump to a 1070 now unless they aren't satisfied with 60fps. Sure a few setting might have to be lowered occasionally but by and large most people would barely be able to tell a difference in the sligjt settings changes if viewed side by side. Frankly I feel it's a non issue at this point and better to wait for better availability and potentially lower prices on the 1070. I personally hope we see price fall more into line with the MSRP within a few months.
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Purehair*

Don't confuse this with that GameWorks trash :P Also, I'd really like to know what's considered "highest settings" in that GTA V benchmark, since my 1070 doesn't even get half that in the benchmark when overclocked and running at 2560x1080, and I wasn't even using Nvidia's PCSS for shadows (since it's really not worth it at all). RotTR also seem a little high, though I know that the DX11 mode performs better in that game and I can't use DX11 for some reason.
 
opticalmace said:
Nice, I should hopefully be getting my MSI 1070 X today too. Also to pair with a 6700k.

What Z170 motherboard did you get?
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i have the MSI Z170-A G43+ board.

done a little overclocking today on my 1070. i'm at about 2050/4090 according to the riva tuner OSD. in MSI the clocks are at +90. i'm sick of seeing the 3D mark benchmark so will continue tomorrow to see how far i can push it. once i'm done oc'ing my 1070 i'll start on my i7-6700K.
 
dr_rus said:
Sigh. There are no reasons why Maxwell will be less supported than Pascal. The architectures are very close, they both support the same DX11/12/OGL feature sets.
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Jen-Hsun needs that moolah for his new leather jacket.

(There's also no reason for DX12 to not be released on Win7/8. Alas, we both know it won't get released on those systems)
 
PensOwl said:
What's with backordering on Newegg? Should I just go ahead and do it?
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I did it for my EVGA 1070 SC, and it started the shipping process right when it came in stock for a brief hour. I'd recommend it, if you know the card you want, and don't want to be monitoring for when stuff becomes available.

It's basically a pre-order.
 
shoreu said:
i5660k getting like 40 - 80 fps

Lol what the hell man


gonna test this with The only other game i have right now Quantum Break
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You could just run msi afterburner with WoW and see about cpu usage and stuff.
MMO's are always cpu heavy, and any kind of multicore support in an oldass game like WoW is going to be spotty at best.
 
When the heck is NCIXUS going to get any of the non-founders in stock, keep waiting and waiting for them to get in the Strix or G1 or something besides teh blower=style founders editions.

Anyone been able to find any of them anywhere that ships in the US besides newegg/amazon (both charge tax to me, and at 9.8% I'd really rather save that money).
 
Parsnip said:
You could just run msi afterburner with WoW and see about cpu usage and stuff.
MMO's are always cpu heavy, and any kind of multicore support in an oldass game like WoW is going to be spotty at best.
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I'll check it out when I get home. I'm still new to all this.
 
Caved and ordered this after the dissaponting RX480 results and PCI problems, has anyone seen a review for it? I can only find 1080 Amp extreme reviews

Ricky Ricardo said:
Does a blower-style card actually hold any merit?
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If you have a small case with only one fan for extraction blower fans will exhaust the heat straight out of your case, after market coolers recycle the air and heat around your case but that usually isnt a problem as most cases have multiple fans for removing that heat.
 
Stiler said:
When the heck is NCIXUS going to get any of the non-founders in stock, keep waiting and waiting for them to get in the Strix or G1 or something besides teh blower=style founders editions.

Anyone been able to find any of them anywhere that ships in the US besides newegg/amazon (both charge tax to me, and at 9.8% I'd really rather save that money).
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B&H had the MSI X in stock for like 8 hours yesterday.
Just use nowinstock
 
Do we have any idea when the Asus Strix 1070 will be out or what the MSRP will be? The Gigabyte G1 is my second choice but I'd really rather the Strix.
 
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