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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread

My replacement 1070FTW finally shipped last night, arriving Tuesday because of the weekend. Also the thermal pads I ordered before I put in the RMA have also been mailed, lol.

Hope I don't get a card that's worse than my current one.
 
Bar81 said:
It's a problem for everyone.

You have VRAM and VRMs with no heatsinks (the former because the thermal pads are too short to make contact with the heatsink and the latter because EVGA just figured they would save some money by not redesigning the heatsink to cover them). You may or may not have issues ultimately depending upon how good your case airflow is and your luck of the draw in how well your silicon holds up, but it's some of the poorest cooling design/implementation on a high end card I've ever seen.
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Shit, ok. Advanced RMA for the win it seems.
 
Received my replacement card late this afternoon, it was initially scheduled for early delivery Tuesday but that didn't happen. Card was already switched to the slave BIOS. O_o I assume that's from their doing the updates and someone forgot to switch it back. Did their adjusting the fan curve in the slave BIOS result in the base fan speed actually being lowered? Because my old card it was 20% while the new one is 15% but that 15% is also at a much lower RPM. Not an issue since I'll still use my custom fan curve, just odd I know they apparently messed with the scaling or whatever.

Aside from that, happy with the replacement, no coil whine and I lucked out getting a card that is a bit better in the "silicon lottery" from what I can tell so far.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
My replacement 1070FTW finally shipped last night, arriving Tuesday because of the weekend. Also the thermal pads I ordered before I put in the RMA have also been mailed, lol.

Hope I don't get a card that's worse than my current one.
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How long did it take? My card died on October 29th. I got it sent out the following Monday, and EVGA received in on November 3rd. Tomorrow will be two weeks that it's been "preparing to ship". I called last week and they apologized for the delay and said they were backlogged and were slapping pads and doing the BIOS update on all cards. I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving so unless it ships tomorrow I'm probably looking at a solid month with no video card.
 
neoemonk said:
How long did it take? My card died on October 29th. I got it sent out the following Monday, and EVGA received in on November 3rd. Tomorrow will be two weeks that it's been "preparing to ship". I called last week and they apologized for the delay and said they were backlogged and were slapping pads and doing the BIOS update on all cards. I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving so unless it ships tomorrow I'm probably looking at a solid month with no video card.
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My RMA was a cross-ship, process was started on November 4th, shipped on the 11th via UPS 3 Day Select.
 
So i purchased this card for 365 euro.:

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I'm very happy but i was wondering if it comes with this backplate that i saw in few unboxing videos:

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Do you have any experience with this card? Opinions?
 
I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this question, but I've got a bit of a dilemma. I'm going to pass my GTX 970 to my Son for his PC; so that means a new card for me. I could get a 1060 6gb but it wouldn't be much of an upgrade for me. I'd be happy to do that as the key thing is upgrading my lad's card really; but I'm thinking of going one step further and paying out for a 1070.

My issue would be whether it'd be wasted in my current machine. I have an old i7-920 at 4ghz and 12gb DDR3 RAM. People told me (not necessarily here) that it would be a bottleneck when I got my 970, but that card has been superb for me. I'm gaming at 1920x1080 too. So would a 1070 be overkill for me? It'd be nice to see some performance gains over my 970 rather than getting a like-for-like card, but it is a lot of money.

Not sure which way to go.
 
Reaz said:
What kind of games are you playing?
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I tend to pick up a lot of the high profile releases. Recently Witcher 3 (still playing the expansions), Dishonored 2, Forza Horizon 2, Deus Ex etc. Looking forward to the new Mass Effect, Watch Dogs 2 seems to be reviewing well.
 
Kiyoshi said:
I tend to pick up a lot of the high profile releases. Recently Witcher 3 (still playing the expansions), Dishonored 2, Forza Horizon 2, Deus Ex etc. Looking forward to the new Mass Effect, Watch Dogs 2 seems to be reviewing well.
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Go buy the 1070.
The CPU will only be the Bottle Neck in this kind of games if you are playing in 1280x720p and without AA/AF etc.
They all are highly GPU depending.

But i would recommend you to buy another platform in 2 years or so cause of the fact that games start to run better with more than 4 cores/threads and fast Memory (DDR4 2400+)
 
Thanks, yeah a total system refresh would be on the cards before too long. If I didn't need to replace my Son's card (and therefore have the option to pass down my 970) I'd probably have waited and done it all at once. But for now the 1070 is mighty tempting.
 
Only a waste of your i7 severely bottlenecks the card but if you were fine with the 970 without issue I doubt the possible impact on a 1070 which is around 50% faster would be all that huge. You just have a good card for whenever you decide it's time for a PC with a new CPU.
 
The 1070 is about 50-60% faster than the 970.
Also the Memory is a good reason for an upgrade, 3,5(fast) + 0,5GB(slow) vs. 8GB(fast)
It is totally worth it. I just upgraded 2 Months ago from an 970 to an 1070 (both Kfa2).
 
Reaz said:
The 1070 is about 50-60% faster than the 970.
Also the Memory is a good reason for an upgrade, 3,5(fast) + 0,5GB(slow) vs. 8GB(fast)
It is totally worth it. I just upgraded 2 Months ago from an 970 to an 1070 (both Kfa2).
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Hm 50-60% ain't enough tbh. I think I'll wait another generation. Unless I can double my frames, I usually don't bite. Went form GTX 570 to 970 before that.
 
So I've been looking around at cards and I found that Dell had some for sale and I have some credit there. I was looking at the 1060 they had but saw they had a 1070 that wouldn't cost much more (would only cost me roughly $200 with my credit) but the issue is there is no specs on the page.

So I was wondering if anyone has it or knows of the specs. I looked around but couldn't find them and was just curious if it's worth spending extra on a 1070 rather than the 1060.I mean the 1070 is more but in terms of cards does that make it better?

Here are the two I was looking at.

GTX 1060

GTX 1070
 
Cmagus said:
So I've been looking around at cards and I found that Dell had some for sale and I have some credit there. I was looking at the 1060 they had but saw they had a 1070 that wouldn't cost much more (would only cost me roughly $200 with my credit) but the issue is there is no specs on the page.

So I was wondering if anyone has it or knows of the specs. I looked around but couldn't find them and was just curious if it's worth spending extra on a 1070 rather than the 1060.I mean the 1070 is more but in terms of cards does that make it better?

Here are the two I was looking at.

GTX 1060

GTX 1070
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Am I missing something or are they charging ~$200 more than they should be? Are these prices CAD? Please tell me there's are in Canadian Rainbow Bucks.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
Am I missing something or are they charging ~$200 more than they should be? Are these prices CAD? Please tell me there's are in Canadian Rainbow Bucks.
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The prices are in Canadian fun money. I've been trying to find info on the 1070 but nothing on that particular card so I'm wondering if it's just like the normal other 1070. I need to get one this week I have an ancient one and it's like a few days from crapping out on me.
 
Cmagus said:
The prices are in Canadian fun money. I've been trying to find info on the 1070 but nothing on that particular card so I'm wondering if it's just like the normal other 1070. I need to get one this week I have an ancient one and it's like a few days from crapping out on me.
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It's just a cheapo blower from PNY to normally sell at MSRP or at least much closer to it than the other ones, not finding much info on them probably isn't a surprise since blower cards don't get attention when all cards with the open air coolers arrive. It's just a reference card with their own blower on it opposed to the Founders Edition ones. I know some buy them just to replace the cooler and put their own on. The cooler should be fine under normal conditions.

I think the gap between a 1060 6GB and a 1070 varies between 30-40% for the most part in real world performance while on paper a 1070 is 50% faster just going by the core count/FLOPS.
 
Reaz said:
The 1070 is about 50-60% faster than the 970.
Also the Memory is a good reason for an upgrade, 3,5(fast) + 0,5GB(slow) vs. 8GB(fast)
It is totally worth it. I just upgraded 2 Months ago from an 970 to an 1070 (both Kfa2).
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Imp the Dimp said:
Hm 50-60% ain't enough tbh. I think I'll wait another generation. Unless I can double my frames, I usually don't bite. Went form GTX 570 to 970 before that.
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As someone who went from a 970 to a 1070 my two cents. If you're playing at -

1080p - possibly no need to upgrade

1440p - decent upgrade if you want 60fps on the latest games. On older games probably no need to upgrade. Need to ask yourself how many of the latest games you have and will buy in the future otherwise it's a bit of a waste.

It was cool though to go from a 970 to basically the former Titan X speeds.
 
Thanks for the advice I appreciate it.I kind of figured the 1070 would be mostly stock, I'm kind of looking at the 1070 founders card as well. Anything at this point is an upgrade right now I have a AMD Radeon HD R7850 series it's not even really for gaming and I bought it and used it mostly for my cintiq and art.

I've always played smaller indie stuff but I've mostly switched over to PC from console so now I obviously want something that is good for gaming.Plus this card is going fast it crashes a lot and I'm getting purple artifacting so it's gonna go.I was looking at Dell because a family member gave me some credit they had there so I figured I might as well put it towards something higher end and I honestly didn't even know they sold cards I never checked.
 
Going from a 1070 to a 970 was obviously no where near the *gates of heaven sound* feeling of going from SLI'd 460s to a 970 but the boost in performance can still be noticeable and allow you to turn up a few things you couldn't before. I've had no problem hitting 99% utilization at 1080p even at just 60FPS in spots, hell Watch Dogs 2 is hitting it at 36FPS (quarter refresh) in spots without MSAA or TXAA. That said, the biggest thing IMO still the VRAM issue it's also pretty easy to find newer/newish games that can break the 3.5GB on a 1070 that would've hindered my 970, had NVIDIA not done what they did and the 4GB of VRAM ran at full speed I probably would've just held off until I could get at least a 100% performance increase.

I'm definitely not replacing this 1070 any time soon, that will probably come a year or so after I rebuild my PC in a year or two.
 
Lux86 said:
So i purchased this card for 365 euro.:

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I'm very happy but i was wondering if it comes with this backplate that i saw in few unboxing videos:



Do you have any experience with this card? Opinions?
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I had a Zotac GTX 770 at one point. I like their cards
 
Kiyoshi said:
I'm not sure if this is the best thread for this question, but I've got a bit of a dilemma. I'm going to pass my GTX 970 to my Son for his PC; so that means a new card for me. I could get a 1060 6gb but it wouldn't be much of an upgrade for me. I'd be happy to do that as the key thing is upgrading my lad's card really; but I'm thinking of going one step further and paying out for a 1070.

My issue would be whether it'd be wasted in my current machine. I have an old i7-920 at 4ghz and 12gb DDR3 RAM. People told me (not necessarily here) that it would be a bottleneck when I got my 970, but that card has been superb for me. I'm gaming at 1920x1080 too. So would a 1070 be overkill for me? It'd be nice to see some performance gains over my 970 rather than getting a like-for-like card, but it is a lot of money.

Not sure which way to go.
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1070 owner here

I have a i7 950 with 24GB of very very slow RAM (1066 Mhz) coupled with my GTX1070 (upgraded from GTX460)

What I found is that it will depend on the game, I have notice some bottleneck on poorly optimised CPU intensive games (these games still played very well), that's a fact, but in many games my old system kills it in 1080p

Yes this card should be with a more modern architecture to get the most out of it, but it still does about the same in most optimised games as newer systems, for me it wasn't worth huge amount of $$$ to upgrade the system for some improvements in some games
 
primasaurus said:
1070 owner here

I have a i7 950 with 24GB of very very slow RAM (1066 Mhz) coupled with my GTX1070 (upgraded from GTX460)

What I found is that it will depend on the game, I have notice some bottleneck on poorly optimised CPU intensive games (these games still played very well), that's a fact, but in many games my old system kills it in 1080p

Yes this card should be with a more modern architecture to get the most out of it, but it still does about the same in most optimised games as newer systems, for me it wasn't worth huge amount of $$$ to upgrade the system for some improvements in some games
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Thank you. I bought a 1070 in the end, and have enjoyed being able to crank up the settings somewhat. A nice little boost to some of the games I'm playing (Witcher 3 and Dishonored 2) and Watch Dogs 2 came free with the card too.
 
Kiyoshi said:
Thank you. I bought a 1070 in the end, and have enjoyed being able to crank up the settings somewhat. A nice little boost to some of the games I'm playing (Witcher 3 and Dishonored 2) and Watch Dogs 2 came free with the card too.
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Still you really should look into upgrading your cpu at some point in 2017, improving your gpu power can only give you small jumps from now on.
I upgraded to skylake from my old 3570k (4.3ghz) this march and the boost in games like witcher 3 and gta 5 was immense (20-30 fps, using the same settings and gpu).
To give you an example witcher 3 runs at 2560x1440/60 on ultra settings (w/o hairworks) on my skylake/1070 combo.
That said wait for zen and kabylake to battle it out and for prices to stabilise before making a call, but you'll have to make this call.
 
I picked up an MSI Gaming X 1070 used very good from Amazon warehouse for around £322 (after vouchers £278). Anyway it has Micron memory so I applied the bios update and haven't really tried overclocking it as seems to run fine on most games at 1440p. I haven't researched a stable overclock / safe level so any recommendation would be good please. Just debating whether to keep it or not but seems ok so far.

Did the bios update fix the Micron memory problem?
 
Decided to go with the GTX 1070 founders edition 8gb. It's pricey but it'll last me a long time so it was worth the investment, plus next on my list is VR so I wanted something good for that.
 
So I've had my replacement 1070FTW for about a month now and all good from what I can tell, currently idling at 21C with an ambient case temp that's about the same with the fan at 35% (~1130RPM). Heat just went off but room temp is at 24C, probably helps that with my case being just above the floor it's getting a good deal of cool air to suck in given how freaking cold it is outside. During the day it's been hanging in the 25-28C range. My 970 SSC never got that low, granted I never actually stuck a permanent custom fan curve on it either.
 
ditta said:
I picked up an MSI Gaming X 1070 used very good from Amazon warehouse for around £322 (after vouchers £278). Anyway it has Micron memory so I applied the bios update and haven't really tried overclocking it as seems to run fine on most games at 1440p. I haven't researched a stable overclock / safe level so any recommendation would be good please. Just debating whether to keep it or not but seems ok so far.

Did the bios update fix the Micron memory problem?
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I haven't had a problem with my MSI GTX 1070 Armor OC Edition since I updated it. I'm running it +120 Core and +600 Memory.

Before the update I couldn't get it over 400 Memory without it crashing, so it seems to have done the job.
 
My 2nd GTX 670 from EVGA(both are EVGA) just died(my PC refuses to detect it)...I really need a GTX 1070 badly!

I would like to get it in January, but my money...February is guaranteed though which is perfect timing for my birthday. I have to use one of my old GTX 460s in the meantime.
 
Timu said:
My 2nd GTX 670 from EVGA(both are EVGA) just died(my PC refuses to detect it)...I really need a GTX 1070 badly!

I would like to get it in January, but my money...February is guaranteed though which is perfect timing for my birthday. I have to use one of my old GTX 460s in the meantime.
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Had this happen on my old computer. Thought the GPU was dead, but tried two different ones and neither showed up. Unplugged the power supply, took the bios battery out of the motherboard for 30 seconds, put it all back together and it was fine on the next reboot.

Long shot, but worth a try.
 
Smokey said:
Did EVGA fix their cards blowing up?
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Nah son. Not only did they not fix shit; they doubled down and shafted all their current 1070 and 1080 customers by redesigned the PCB and changing components "to ensure that the new cards aren't affected by faulty components or failing VRMs that were used on the older [cards]" (i.e., the old cards blow up).

Then just to make sure their current customers understand they are getting screwed, they redesigned the coolers and are removing their current coolers from the entire lineup for the new cooler - so the new coolers are called iCX and the cards are called FTW2, etc. just to make sure you get it. The best part is the slogan for the new iCX coolers is "Game with safety and piece of mind" (i.e., their old cards are not safe).

What a bunch of dicks.

Look elsewhere.
 
Bar81 said:
Nah son. Not only did they not fix shit; they doubled down and shafted all their current 1070 and 1080 customers by redesigned the PCB and changing components "to ensure that the new cards aren’t affected by faulty components or failing VRMs that were used on the older [cards]" (i.e., the old cards blow up).

Then just to make sure their current customers understand they are getting screwed, they redesigned the coolers and are removing their current coolers from the entire lineup for the new cooler - so the new coolers are called iCX and the cards are called FTW2, etc. just to make sure you get it. The best part is the slogan for the new iCX coolers is "Game with safety and piece of mind" (i.e., their old cards are not safe).

What a bunch of dicks.

Look elsewhere.
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LOL I haven't been keeping up since I received my replacement 1070 but wow. Are the apologists/fanboys on their forum still vigorously defending then?
 
Dio Brando said:
yep. some said it's not worth, but after doing the same as you, it totally is. loving my 1070.
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Ive upgraded every new generation of the 7x series and have been totally satisfied. Its not overly expensive compared to the 8x series and there is always a healthy bump in performance

GTX 670 -> 770 -> 970 -> 1070
 
n0razi said:
Ive upgraded every new generation of the 7x series and have been totally satisfied. Its not overly expensive compared to the 8x series and there is always a healthy bump in performance

GTX 670 -> 770 -> 970 -> 1070
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sorta simillar to you, but skipped the 770.
670>970>1070.
but yeah. the increase in performance is always noticeable. lot of headroom for the newer games now, and a lot of options for older ones.
 
n0razi said:
Ive upgraded every new generation of the 7x series and have been totally satisfied. Its not overly expensive compared to the 8x series and there is always a healthy bump in performance

GTX 670 -> 770 -> 970 -> 1070
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This sorta my plan although I might jump to an AMD equivalent. Selling my GPU every couple years while it still has value.
 
Beerman462 said:
This sorta my plan although I might jump to an AMD equivalent. Selling my GPU every couple years while it still has value.
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Wish I could get some money on my old GPU (GTX 660ti, which still plays games reasonably well).
I waited too long and now I'd probably be lucky to get $50-60 for it, if it even sells.

I've been wanting a 1070 since I got back from my European vacation last year, but I spent more on that trip and didn't have it in my budget to upgrade, and now the Switch is coming which will delay my getting it even more. :(

Im probably better off waiting for a 1070ti to come out or something.
 
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