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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread

Newboi said:
Man, I want to bite on a GTX 1070 so bad, but I'm wondering if AMD's VEGA line will release before 2017. If it does, AMD's cards could drive down the prices of Nvidia's.

I'll probably keep one of my GTX 670s and use it as a PhysX card. Has anyone had any experience of having a GPU entirely dedicated to PhysX? Is it worth while?
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If you cant find a buyer for it you might as well.
But it wont really add anything with newer games.
The 1070 is so much more powerful than the 670 it would probably just be held back.
It can handle its own PhysX and do a better job most of the time than the 670.

For dedicated PhysX cards to really make a real difference they need to be pretty close in power. Maybe a 970 or something would actually yield worthwhile results.

There was a site which tested multiple setups...and when the gap in power was large enough the single newer card did a better job than adding a weak old card.
But when the cards were similar spec there was a noticeable jump i performance.
 
Yeah, a 670 might end up holding back the 1070, not to mention the excess power and heat it'll produce and that's before those limited situations where it'd even be worth it.

Black_Stride said:
Wait what Palit and Gainward arent available in the states?
Weird....ive been a Gainward fan since the 6800 days ive had Golden Samples or GLHs since, i never even thought they wouldnt hunt the US market considering their cards are some of the fastest(if not the fastest) out of the box.
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Nope, unfortunately.
 
Oracle Dragon said:
So is the 1070 worth it over the 1060 for the price premium? Obviously it is better but not quite what I mean... I've been saving and waiting for a 1060sc because I'm a gamer on a budget (currently have a 560ti). However I was recently gifted some money that would almost pay for the 1060. So the question is do I take a nearly free 1060 or since I kind of already committed to buying it, do I tack the gift money on top and get a 1070 instead?
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First hand experience here. Bought an MSI 1070 but the card would barely fit and case would not close up all the way so I sold it. Picked up a gtx 1060 mini which could OC very well but ended up being a tease. I mean i have a 1080i /1035p CRT and a new 2k 60hz monitor. Both are great displays. The 1060 would just tease me with 55fps or 59fps or 29fps for most of the new games with everything on ultra along with whatever AA I was using. Just a freaking tease IMO. So I ordered a 1070 which is more in line with the founder's in terms of size and will fit perfectly inside my case. Should easily put everything I throw at it at 60fps or above.

The 1060 gives you a great unforgettable hj but the 1070 let's you actually put it in for more pleasure and satisfaction.
 
My MSI Gaming X died this morning. It's been running like a dream these past few weeks, but this morning I left the room and came back to find my computer had turned itself off and refused to turn back on, and I eventually narrowed it down to the GPU. I suppose it's back to the ol' 670 for the time being.

Has anyone had experience with getting a replacement card through Amazon before? Do I just go through the 'Return or replace items' thing on my order page on the site?
 
matrix-cat said:
My MSI Gaming X died this morning. It's been running like a dream these past few weeks, but this morning I left the room and came back to find my computer had turned itself off and refused to turn back on, and I eventually narrowed it down to the GPU. I suppose it's back to the ol' 670 for the time being.

Has anyone had experience with getting a replacement card through Amazon before? Do I just go through the 'Return or replace items' thing on my order page on the site?
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Yeah, do that, that's what I do for returning/replacing items.
 
Black_Stride said:
Wait what Palit and Gainward arent available in the states?
Weird....ive been a Gainward fan since the 6800 days ive had Golden Samples or GLHs since, i never even thought they wouldnt hunt the US market considering their cards are some of the fastest(if not the fastest) out of the box.
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Palit/Gainward are rebranded in the US as PNY, Palit owns both brands. Not sure how many people realize that Palit is globally the largest GPU vendor these days (unless something changed recently, definitely at the top tho).
 
Drazgul said:
Palit/Gainward are rebranded in the US as PNY, Palit owns both brands. Not sure how many people realize that Palit is globally the largest GPU vendor these days (unless something changed recently, definitely at the top tho).
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Hmm? That so? I just looked and yeah, contrary to what I read there is a PNY version of, I guess a variation of the "Game Soul" card, whatever one that is.
 
Drazgul said:
Palit/Gainward are rebranded in the US as PNY, Palit owns both brands. Not sure how many people realize that Palit is globally the largest GPU vendor these days (unless something changed recently, definitely at the top tho).
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No ASUS overtook Palit as the biggest supplier of graphics cards. Although Palit was biggest couple years ago.
 
So I finally got around to installing my GTX 1070 FTW and I noticed in Afterburner and in Precision app by EVGA my clock speed hovers at 1974/1986mhz with no overclock besides the factory one out of the box. Advertised was 1797mhz. Is there a reason for this, are all cards getting that type of speed? Also with the auto fan curve on, I wouldn't get above 60 degrees on Overwatch at 1080p even after hours of playing , which is impressive.
 
JayBabay said:
So I finally got around to installing my GTX 1070 FTW and I noticed in Afterburner and in Precision app by EVGA my clock speed hovers at 1974/1986mhz with no overclock besides the factory one out of the box. Advertised was 1797mhz. Is there a reason for this, are all cards getting that type of speed? Also with the auto fan curve on, I wouldn't get above 60 degrees on Overwatch at 1080p even after hours of playing , which is impressive.
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The advertised boost speeds are just a minimum that it will hit, depending on how lucky you are in the silicon lottery the more the card will (likely) go above it before throttling kicks in.
 
JayBabay said:
So I finally got around to installing my GTX 1070 FTW and I noticed in Afterburner and in Precision app by EVGA my clock speed hovers at 1974/1986mhz with no overclock besides the factory one out of the box. Advertised was 1797mhz. Is there a reason for this, are all cards getting that type of speed? Also with the auto fan curve on, I wouldn't get above 60 degrees on Overwatch at 1080p even after hours of playing , which is impressive.
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My 1060 did the same type of thing. I guess that's how the boost works. It will jump around based on various factors. I know that on my 1060 the temps had a lot to do with keeping it from jumping around too much or boosting properly at all. The card would do 2100 but got too hot for it to stay there and make much difference in performance.
 
Coulomb_Barrier said:
No ASUS overtook Palit as the biggest supplier of graphics cards. Although Palit was biggest couple years ago.
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Yeah I figured they might've; is that based on just the discrete GPU units sold, or is it based on total company revenues, do you know? ASUS does have a significant peripheral business, after all.


@JayBabay: like has been said already, that's just the GPU Boost 3.0 at play - overclock or not, the fluctuations are normal.
 
dr_rus said:
It's $410 now and the prices keep falling with the initial demand satisfied.
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I mean that's one card, most are between $420-$440 still. I haven't seen a ton of evidence prices have been dropping at a reasonable clip, you can pretty much get a 1070 anywhere and prices have stayed mostly stagnant even though availability has been high.
 
Bought my Palit 1070 Jetstream to replace my 970 a month ago and just wanted to say I'm really impressed with it, it's the cheapest 1070 in my country, with a difference of $100-175 over MSI, Asus and Gigabyte cards. I don't know what happened there but yeah.

Not expecting a lot with it but read some good impressions online so I bought it and wow, cool and quiet under load, no sound on idle, RGB that can be turn off and customize, backplate, standard stuff I guess for 1070 gpus, and dual bios which is a nice bonus. Overclocks really well, +170 (2025 Mhz when gaming) on the clock and +675 on memory atm.

Only downside, it's a three slot card, so that might limit me to a micro atx build rather than mini itx when I upgrade my ivy bridge to the next intel platform that interest me enough to upgrade.
 
My 1070 is used in this fashion:

HDMI -> AV UNIT -> HDMI -> TV

Sometimes I seem to have handshake issues where I'll turn the TV on, get audio coming out of the AV unit but no display.

Is this something I can remedy PC side or is this an AV Unit / TV thing? It was pretty much 99% ok with my 660 but seems to be a challenge here.

TV is quite old. Philips 9632.
 
didamangi said:
Not expecting a lot with it but read some good impressions online so I bought it and wow, cool and quiet under load, no sound on idle, RGB that can be turn off and customize, backplate, standard stuff I guess for 1070 gpus, and dual bios which is a nice bonus. Overclocks really well, +170 (2025 Mhz when gaming) on the clock and +675 on memory atm.
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Did you do a lot of in-game tests when you were fiddling with the OC numbers? I've read that past a certain point, increasing the memory can actually be a hindrance and drop FPS. Got the same card but I left mine at +400 for now.
 
Drazgul said:
Did you do a lot of in-game tests when you were fiddling with the OC numbers? I've read that past a certain point, increasing the memory can actually be a hindrance and drop FPS. Got the same card but I left mine at +400 for now.
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Yup, played bio inf burial at sea@4K with DSR, witcher 3 hearts of stone with it till the end, no artifacts or crashes. Doom@2.25 DSR with it as well for now, and some other games and it seems fine. No hitching or drops. Maybe i'll do some benchmarks and compare the scores before or after to see if it affects performance later.
 
Just got message from UPS that my 1070 will be here tomorrow on time, cannot wait!

What benchmarks do people recommend? Something short that doesn't take eternity and is free.
Having a rematch with SteamVR Benchmark at least, I still have my old score saved and if it doesn't jump to maximum score I'll be sad.
 
Kudo said:
Just got message from UPS that my 1070 will be here tomorrow on time, cannot wait!

What benchmarks do people recommend? Something short that doesn't take eternity and is free.
Having a rematch with SteamVR Benchmark at least, I still have my old score saved and if it doesn't jump to maximum score I'll be sad.
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3DMARK Demo on Steam.
Valley or Heaven from Unigine.
 
Yeah unigine isn't demanding enough for stability testing - fine if you just want to see the difference in FPS from OC or your old GPU.
 
matrix-cat said:
My MSI Gaming X died this morning. It's been running like a dream these past few weeks, but this morning I left the room and came back to find my computer had turned itself off and refused to turn back on, and I eventually narrowed it down to the GPU. I suppose it's back to the ol' 670 for the time being.

Has anyone had experience with getting a replacement card through Amazon before? Do I just go through the 'Return or replace items' thing on my order page on the site?
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how long exactly have you had it? i have the same card for about 6 weeks now.
 
Does these scores look normal?
2 552 Time Spy

Graphics score
2 348
Graphics test 1
15.37 FPS
Graphics test 2
13.42 FPS
CPU test
5 029
CPU test
16.90 FPS

GPU
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
CPU
Intel Core i7 6700K
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I had HWMonitor running in the background to check for temps, but CPU test score seems little low? Also I wonder why does it report online that my Max turbo core clock is only 4,010 MHz? I'm pretty sure I enabled it in BIOS.

Hopefully I can see that total score jump to at least 6k tomorrow!
 
Kudo said:
Does these scores look normal?


I had HWMonitor running in the background to check for temps, but CPU test score seems little low? Also I wonder why does it report online that my Max turbo core clock is only 4,010 MHz? I'm pretty sure I enabled it in BIOS.

Hopefully I can see that total score jump to at least 6k tomorrow!
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You can click compare results online and then on the browser page click show result details. It'll show similar system score.
 
Kudo said:
Does these scores look normal?


I had HWMonitor running in the background to check for temps, but CPU test score seems little low? Also I wonder why does it report online that my Max turbo core clock is only 4,010 MHz? I'm pretty sure I enabled it in BIOS.

Hopefully I can see that total score jump to at least 6k tomorrow!
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I think only the turbo that the CPU internally reports will be shown, not the actual Turbo OC you set it to.
 
Skyfireblaze said:
I think only the turbo that the CPU internally reports will be shown, not the actual Turbo OC you set it to.
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I see, so:
Reported stock core clock
4,000 MHz
Maximum turbo core clock
4,010 MHz
Is normal if I've only enabled the Turbo from BIOS? I can see it going up to 4.2GHz occasionally but during the test it didn't seem to.

Most people seem to have few hundred higher score than me from the CPU Test so it's weird, is everyone doing OC as their turbo core clocks range from 4.2GHz to 4.7GHz?
 
Is there a consolidated 3dMark benchmark results thread where I can compare stuff? I tried the Timespy benchmark (default) and I was surprised at the dipping framerates. I don't know if that's normal.


My specs are below:
- Intel i5-6600k (default clocks)
- Asus Z170I Pro Gaming motherboard
- Cooler Master Evo 212
- Corsair DDR4 16GB (8x2) 3000MHz
- Samsung Evo 850 250GB SSD
- Asus Strix 1070 8GB card (default clocks)
- EVGA 850w G2
 
blly155 said:
how long exactly have you had it? i have the same card for about 6 weeks now.
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It's been in my computer for just about three weeks now. Showed no sign of trouble until today.

So glad I bought it from Amazon, though. It seems like they send out the new card as soon as you file the return, no waiting to actually receive it from you. Obviously they'll charge me full price if they don't actually get it back, though. And they'll pay up to $15 for the return shipping, which unfortunately probably won't cover it for me (Western Australia to Lexington Kentucky), but it's better than nothing.
 
Is it normal that I'm getting 30-40 fps in Metro 2033 in 1080p ultra on oc mode? I tried TW3 and I'm getting 60-70 fps on the same settings. Could 8gb 1600mhz of ram cause a bottleneck like this? i7 3770k so I don't think the problem is with the cpu.
 
Kudo said:
I see, so:
Reported stock core clock
4,000 MHz
Maximum turbo core clock
4,010 MHz
Is normal if I've only enabled the Turbo from BIOS? I can see it going up to 4.2GHz occasionally but during the test it didn't seem to.

Most people seem to have few hundred higher score than me from the CPU Test so it's weird, is everyone doing OC as their turbo core clocks range from 4.2GHz to 4.7GHz?
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Oh if you haven't changed your turbo-frequency manually then this is odd, 10mhz doesn't qualify as even stock-turbo o.o Can you look in your EFI what the turbo-multiplier is set to?

HarryDemeanor said:
As someone looking to make the jump to a 1440p 144hz monitor, would I be better suited with a 1070 or a 1080?
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I would say 1080 by far, the 1070 will get you 1440p with ease but 144hz/fps will be problematic :/
 
Kolx said:
Is it normal that I'm getting 30-40 fps in Metro 2033 in 1080p ultra on oc mode? I tried TW3 and I'm getting 60-70 fps on the same settings. Could 8gb 1600mhz of ram cause a bottleneck like this? i7 3770k so I don't think the problem is with the cpu.
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I'm getting 60-80+ fps in Metro 2033 Redux with everything maxed out except for antialiasing which is 2x because it's very demanding. I'm on ddr3 8gb 1600mhz and a FX6100 OC (shame, shame).

EDIT: Just tried 4x (max) antialiasing and I got 35-50 fps in a big station (Polis). Also, I forgot to say I was in 1080p as well but no oc mode because I can't run the MSI Gaming app.
 
I don't think I can find a 1070 that will fit in my htpc case. May have to go with the 1060 from zotac. Anyone know which is the smallest 1070 available?
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
1070 FTW is back on NewEgg for $439.99 with promo code EXLEMFF65.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487259
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Weird, says my email address is not valid for that code... I wasn't likely going to order one (already have a 1070 FTW bought from EVGA), but I was tempted enough to try the code just in case for possible SLI. The High Bandwidth SLI Bridge has tempted me to go SLI again since it supposedly helps with poor scaling and microstuttering. But that's still a big maybe after the poor experience I had with 970 SLI.
 
Crimsonsky said:
ASUS GeForce 8GB Dual-Fan OC Edition

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JHQSZ40/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Vs

ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB ROG STRIX Graphic Card (STRIX-GTX1070-8G-GAMING)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HEQYQHA/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Anyone have a clue which is better? The strix has a backplate. Doesn't look like the dual fan does. That would be a deal breaker for me. Anyone know anything more about them? I'm not worry about boost clocks I can PC it myself if need be.
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Strix is definitely better. The dual version is supposed to be the cheaper option in ASUS lineup, I think? Kinda like MSI's Gaming and Armor lineup.
 
jrcbandit said:
Weird, says my email address is not valid for that code... I wasn't likely going to order one (already have a 1070 FTW bought from EVGA), but I was tempted enough to try the code just in case for possible SLI. The High Bandwidth SLI Bridge has tempted me to go SLI again since it supposedly helps with poor scaling and microstuttering. But that's still a big maybe after the poor experience I had with 970 SLI.
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Erm, it was an e-mail exclusive deal so maybe your account has to be accepting those e-mails for it to work? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
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