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Review: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition (16nm Pascal)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 29 May 2016, 23:01

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Testing Methodology

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Specification


GPU Comparisons

Graphics Card GPU Cores Base Clock
(MHz)
Boost Clock
(MHz)
Memory Size
(MB)
Memory Clock
(MHz)
Memory Bus
(bits)
Graphics Driver
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 2,560 1,607 1,734 8,192 10,000 256 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 1,920 1,506 1,683 8,192 8,000 256 368.19
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X 3,072 1,000 1,076 12,228 7,010 384 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 2,816 1,000 1,076 6,144 7,010 384 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 2,048 1,127 1,216 4,096 7,010 256 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 1,664 1,050 1,178 4,096 7,010 256 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti 2,880 875 928 3,072 6,008 384 368.16
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 1,536 1,006 1,058 2,048 6,008 256 368.16
AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4,096 1,050 NA 4,096 1,000 4,096 16.5.2
Sapphire Radeon R9 390X 2,816 1,050 NA 8,192 6,000 512 16.5.2
Sapphire Radeon R9 390 2,560 1,010 NA 8,192 6,000 512 16.5.2

HEXUS Graphics Test Bench

Hardware Components
Processor Intel Core i7-6700K (overclocked up to 4.40GHz)
CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15 (single fan)
Motherboard Gigabyte Z170XP SLI
Memory Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-2400
Power Supply be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
Storage Device 512GB SK hynix Canvas SC300
Chassis Corsair Graphite Series 600T
Monitor Philips Brilliance 4K Ultra HD LED (288P6LJEB/00)
Operating system Windows 10 (64-bit)

Benchmark Suite

Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme and Fire Strike Ultra
Gaming Benchmarks
Fallout 4 Ultra quality preset at various resolutions.
Rise of the Tomb Raider Very high quality settings, DX12 at various resolutions.
Star Wars Battlefront Ultra quality settings at various resolutions.
Tom Clancy's The Division Ultra quality settings at various resolutions.
General Benchmarks
Power Consumption To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record system-wide mains power draw both when idle and while playing Star Wars Battlefront.
Temperature To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record GPU core temperature both when idle and while playing Star Wars Battlefront.
Noise A PCE-318 meter is used to record noise levels when idle and while playing Star Wars Battlefront.
Overclocking Maintaining out-the-box voltage, we increase the card's power target and aim for an optimal balance of core and memory overclock. With the heightened frequencies in place, the 3DMark, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy's The Division tests are re-run at 4K UHD settings.

Notes

To minimise the impact of any CPU bottlenecks, our test platform is configured with a quad-core Intel Core i7-6700K processor overclocked at up to 4.4GHz and 16GB of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 memory set to run at 2,400MHz.

For our high-end benchmark suite, we have an array of games tested at FHD (1,920x1,080), QHD (2,560x1,440) and 4K UHD (3,840x2,160) resolutions. Where applicable, any vendor-specific enhancements such as PhysX and TressFX are disabled to help even the playing field. In-game benchmark results are recorded as minimum and average frames per second.

We've added the GTX 1070 to our new suite, which will be further expanded upon, games-wise, in the next month. As we mentioned on the first page, GTX 1070's on-paper credentials seem solid enough to challenge the reference GTX 980 Ti. For those interested in other comparisons, we've added the GeForce GTX 970 into the mixer, too.