This year's flagship GTX 980 Ti's NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics report

The Tick-Tock model was first proposed by Intel Corporation. Every two years, new process technologies will be introduced, and then new microarchitectures will be introduced every other year.

Although NVIDIA did not explicitly state that its graphics update iteration method follows the Tick-Tock model, it still exceeds 50% performance increase for 18 months per generation, giving other competitors tremendous performance pressure. Of course, if it isn’t for every flagship such as x80 Ti or Titan, it will be updated. Generally, it will be such a good reason to change the performance of the new card at the same price.

From the October 18th of October of last year, the GTX 970 graphics card based on Maxwell architecture was listed on the market. NVIDIA brought about three new graphics cards based on Pascal architecture GTX 1080, GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 to the consumer PC market. Among them, the GTX 1070 has the SLI capability (1060 brutal castration SLI) + higher than the price ratio of 1080, as the current flagship display card with high performance-price ratio, setting off a frenzy of card change in the consumer PC market.

The GeForce GTX 1070 uses the Pascal architecture, named after the famous physicist Pascal, with floating point performance exceeding 7TFLOPs. Using TMSC TSMC's 16nm FinFET manufacturing process, of course, the energy consumption ratio is also greatly improved, and the average performance per watt can be increased by nearly 70% compared to the previous generation of the GTX 970 series. This is, of course, a double power due to the new architecture + new process. Depletion bonus.

This time I was fortunate to be able to get Zhang Aunt Xiaobian favor, got this NVIDIA Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card measurement of valuable opportunities. GTX 1070 is such a technology for geeks to inspire purchase! buy! buy! Desire of the graphics card, performance comparable to the previous generation flagship 980 Ti (public version of VS public version, non-public VS non-public). Let's take a look at the comparison of the specifications between the flagship and sub flagship of the two generations of graphics cards.

So what is the actual performance of this video card, can it reach the level of VR Ready previously advertised?

Then Ah Cai started from this large box, and through actual game testing, he experienced the real strength of the 2016 heavyweight product, the new Pascal architecture high-end graphics card.

Ah Cai was lucky, and a three-year warranty on the ASUS GEFORCE GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION public graphics card was obtained from random shipments.

The back of ASUS graphics card box mainly introduces the technology of GTX 1070. Supports GPU Tweak It software for overclocking cards Fan policy management through FanXpert 3. At the same time, thanks to the arrival of the VR boom, GTX 1070 also naturally supports NVIDIA's VR technology. At the same time, due to the enthusiasm of “pi” (gu), which led the sales boom of 144Hz G-Sync display, GTX 1070 supports G-Sync and Fast-Sync synchronization technology (requires monitor support), allowing players to The picture experience of the FPS E-sports game seen is smoother and smoother.

Open the printed outer box, which is a black card with a gold-colored inner case.

Inside the box is a patented SecureAir airbag-protected graphics card. This patented package can be seen to be relatively complicated to open, and is specifically accompanied by instructions for unpacking.

The GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION graphics card full of faith is fixed in the double carton.

Double-layer carton protection, the innermost shape of the paper tray is still marked with the folding step of unpacking and repackaging.

Starting from GTX 690, "Titanium" is equal to the public version of the radiator of Nvidia has been deep into the concept of players, it represents NVIDIA's beliefs and glory.

The official name of the official version of the Kepler and Maxwell architectures before the Pascal architecture was called the Reference Edition, which is literally the "reference version", which is the public version.

As a faithful NVIDIA user, you will often have a variety of NVIDIA Titanium graphics cards. Ah Cai is no exception. Like the Kepler series core Titan Pipi, the GTX 1070 heatsink has the same black fins as the GTX 970. However, unlike the GTX 970, the heat pipe shrinks into three heat pipes, and the GTX 1070 heatsink remains the same. The same hot plate as the GTX 980 Ti. The appearance of the diamond-like polygon cut shape is the biggest change in design, the other basically no difference, or die-cast aluminum-magnesium alloy shell and fan, transparent Aggrek observation window.

Titan radiator is all metal material, aluminum magnesium alloy die-casting turbo centrifugal fan, from the GTX 690 began to become the flagship of the NV flagship card radiator. The 7 Series began delegating to the sub-flag x70, and this tradition continues until today's GTX 1070.

Titanium version of the radiator in the Kelper architecture of the 6 ~ 7 series Geforce graphics card era did not design standard backplane, EVGA and EK graphics cards and water-cooled manufacturers designed their own 770,780, Titan's third-party backplane. The 9 series graphics cards starting from the Maxwell architecture have the backplanes of Nvidia's overall design. The backplane edge of the original Nvidia PCB is closely attached to the PCB and there is no gap clearance of 2mm. The die die-casting slots are used to stagger the component pins to avoid short circuits. With a mysterious integrated circuit-like groove, the thickness is about 1~1.5mm, which is thicker than the 0.8~1mm thickness of the wild third-party backboard.

Speaking of the appearance of the backplane is beautiful and atmospheric, and it helps to protect the PCB. When installing the video card is a handy party Acai often afraid to be fan fasteners or fins scraped off the back of the graphics card components, do not laugh at me, I really do not care to be the bottom of the video card IO bezel two positioning insert scraped off the motherboard The patch resistors on the block had to be bought with a TUF special force board with armor.

However, the graphics card backplane is also a double-edged sword. There is no metal backplane compatibility with the first slot radiator is better. Because the graphics card has a backplane, on X79/X99, M-ATX motherboards, because the first slot PCIe X16 can not be installed 14cm tower radiator like owl NH-D15, U14S and Wind Catcher PH-TC14PE. The fans will conflict with the fan fasteners, and the extrusion will not be able to be installed. This is not the case for graphics cards that do not have a backplane, but it is likely to cause the radiator fan wire fasteners to contact the graphics solder joints and short-circuit the graphics card. In short, no backplane and standard backplane will have their own shortcomings, there is no perfect solution.

The GTX 1070 is still a PCIe 3.0 16x interface and the theoretical maximum bandwidth is approximately 32GB/s in both directions.

GEFORCE GTX faith light, light-transparent rubber material, comfortable feel, green light, is for this lamp FE public version is more expensive than AIC's non-public version of 400.

I don't say anything about it. Choosing FOUNDER'S EDITION's children's paper is all about NVIDIA's belief. Drop ~~ student card, your belief is recharged.

The NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION uses the OTES radiator. This type of radiator is called a totally enclosed centrifugal pumping type. Its advantage is that a turbofan draws air and is guided through a closed cowl. , and then directly discharged outside the chassis. The heat generated by the graphics card has a very slight effect on the ambient temperature of the chassis and is not easily affected.

Compared to the public version of OTES heat dissipation, non-public version of the card generally adopts open-type heat sinks with a direct-blow structure. The size and shape of the open heat-dissipation fins are not limited, so the theoretical heat dissipation effect is excellent. But for these reasons, open radiators are also very dependent on the ambient temperature. The open radiator will discharge all the heat generated by the graphics card in the chassis, which will cause the environment of the chassis to heat up, and the environment will heat up and then react to the radiator. If there is no effective chassis air duct support, the cooling effect will be greatly reduced.

It is terribly scary to emit huge amounts of heat inside the chassis. Almost all high-end public graphics cards use the OTES heatsink without exception. This is obviously a matter of careful consideration because the public version of graphics card is supplied to OEMs such as Dell, HP, and Lenovo. , The brand chassis heat radiation duct design is often not high-end DIY chassis excellent, and if the user chooses to configure multi-card crossfire, then OTES radiator is almost the only choice, or if you choose open radiator, then the heat between the graphics card Will interfere with each other, is not conducive to the brand of discrete graphics card to maintain temperature control.

PCIe 8pin auxiliary power supply interface, 8pin and dual 6pin interface power supply capacity is 150W, plus the 75W of PCI-E power supply, can provide up to 225W power supply capacity. The theoretical TDP power consumption of the GTX 1070 is 150 watts. Compared with the GTX 970, the 5-watt TDP power consumption is improved. From the later 3D performance tests, it can be seen that the TX 1070 performance is an amazing 70% improvement over the GTX 970 with almost no power consumption.

The GTX 1070 theoretically still supports 3-4 SLIs, but there has been a change in the products of the Pascal architecture, which originally required only one SLI bridge to be connected. Now if only one gold finger is inserted for SLI, the driver will be prompted to achieve the best performance state, including the new SLI bridge is also in the two-way SLI to all the two groups of gold fingers.

As a result, NVIDIA announced that for the best performance experience, only 2-way SLI support is enabled by default. Only the 2-way SLI also requires the insertion of two golden finger HB SLI bridges to achieve full performance.

It still can support 3-Way or 4-Way SLI technology, but players who want to get 3/4 SLI support may be in trouble and need to apply for Enthusiast Key unlock, which means users need to download the key from NVIDIA official, then Can unlock 3/4-Way SLI function.

The NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S IO baffle is the same as the GTX 980/980 Ti for the triangular OTES vent. The flow area is larger than that of the GTX 780, but there is no EVGA 980, 970 high flow baffle.

Nvidia's NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION offers five interfaces, three DP 1.4, and one HDMI 2.0b, all supporting 4096x2160 @ 60Hz, and a DVI interface for backward compatibility. Because the DVI interface does not support VR, the highest resolution is only 2560x1440, does not support gaming high refresh rate of 144Hz, does not support G-Sync synchronization technology, does not support 4K resolution, and will be phased out later.

Below the titanium shell of the metal shell is Vapor Chamber vacuum chamber heat spreader, die-cast aluminum turbo centrifugal fan.

The NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION is powered by a 4+1 phase VRM with 8G GDDR5 memory. The middle is covered with silicone grease GP104-200-A1 core.

From the schematic diagram of the core of the GP104-200-A1, we can see that each group of GPC units has a group of SM modules

The structure of a group of SM modules is shown in the figure below. Each group contains 128 stream processors. The GTX 1070 was cut off 5 sets, which is 2560-1920, 640 stream processors less than the GTX 1080.

Installation test

The Nvidia NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION features excellent chassis compatibility.

The NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION graphics card is only 26.7 centimeters in length and can fit into more than half of the ITX chassis.

Since the NVIDIA GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION graphics card is based on OTES heat dissipation, there is no need to worry about the effect of the air duct on the CPU and power dissipation when the graphics card is fully loaded.

Thanks to Titanium Radiator for CPU cooling and chassis air ducts no requirements, so Ah Cai can use OTES + 240 water-cooled assembly of a set of ITX small steel gun platform.

The volume is 16cm x 32cm x 24cm and the volume is 12.6L.

The bottom of the chassis enters the air and is directly fed into the turbo fan, and then the hot air is discharged from the card IO baffle at the rear of the chassis. The video card and the CPU cooling air exhaust are independent of each other. This is a very ideal small size chassis duct design.

Inlet air from the side panel, outlet from the top of the chassis, and an independent air duct owned by SFX Power.

Put on the chassis side board, we can see the complete ITX cannon shape.

The 240 cold exhaust can ensure that the i7-6700K CPU can keep the temperature below 70 degrees when it is working at full speed.

Benchmark performance test

Test platform configuration

ASUS GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION Graphics GPU-Z Information

3D benchmark performance test

Graphic Test - New 3DMark

The 3Dmark series is a video card testing software produced by Futuremark, and it is a software that has a benchmark in the industry and consumers' minds. The new version of 3DMark takes the four major operating systems of Windows, Windows RT, iOS, and Android across desktops and mobile devices. The results on different platforms can also be directly compared.

The new version of 3DMark consists of Ice Storm, Cloud Gatem, Sky Diver, Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme and Fire Strike Ultra, a newly added 4K game performance test. It consists of six tests: "Mobile Devices and Entry Level Computers." Home computers "High-performance gaming computers" "Multi-GPU systems and overclocked computers" and "4K gaming computers."

1080p FS pressure is not large

Without comparison, there is no harm. We can see that the scores of the GTX 1070 and GTX 980 Ti are high above and 30% of the other graphics cards are open.

1440p FSE

The same GSE 1070 and GTX 980 Ti three-card FSE scores are unmatched.

4K resolution FSU is a hard standard for 4K games

The GTX 980 Ti regained a bit of performance advantage with a 384-bit memory bandwidth, followed by two GTX 1070s.

Graphic Test - 3DMark11

3DMark 11 is the world's most popular computer performance benchmarking software. 3DMark 11 is a test software designed to measure the efficiency of PC games. It can use all the new features of DirectX 11, including Tessellation, Compute Shader, and Multi-threading. ). Thanks to the trust of global gamers and the ability to give accurate and fair test results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to test DirectX 11 with consistency and reliability in the approximate game load case. However, 3DMark 11 is generally considered to be good for NVIDIA graphics cards because it introduces NVIDIA's exclusive PhyX physics engine support.

In the 3DMark 11 P-mode test, the Nvidia NVIDIA GTX 1070 graphics card is equivalent to the 980 Ti, which is less than the 970 SLI.

The 3DMark 11 P mode has already broken 2000 points. The GTX 1070 public version is slightly affected by the frequency, the performance is lower than the non-public version of the GTX 980 Ti, and the non-public version of the GTX 1070 has directly fallen on the GTX 980 Ti.

X mode, rivers and lakes rumors, 3DMark11 X 10,000, can be smooth 4K games. This is actually a misunderstanding, because the 3DMark11 Extreme mode rendering resolution is actually 2560x1440.

Master Lu is a magical software, changing the resolution can change the graphics performance.

GTX 1070 can run 240,000 points

Direct X 11 game test

Game Test - GTA 5 Grand Theft Auto 5

This is the latest work of the Grand Theft Auto series, produced by Rockstar North and released by Rockstar Games. The game uses the new Thunder engine (RAGE engine). The game story takes Los Angeles, which is based on Los Angeles and its surrounding areas, as Los Angeles and Southern California in the real region. The production unit photographed more than 250,000 related photos and studied population surveys and car sales data to build the world of games.

The Grand Theft Auto series has always been a well-known action adventure game with gangster life as its background. The protagonist can't escape from the underworld. The game elements in the GTA5 will be enhanced, and the more open and free world will be added. The story-driven, task-based gameplay and multiplayer mode will be adopted. The story theme focuses on Southern California, where money never sleeps. This work is the most dynamic and most diversified open world ever, and Grand Theft Auto 5 combines new storytelling and gameplay as players can repeatedly enter the lives of three characters. The story of all the contents together.

GTA 5 quality settings

In the GTA 5 Benchmark benchmark, Nvidia's NVIDIA GTX 1070 graphics averaged 87 FPS, slightly better than the GTX 980 Ti.

Sorcerer 3: Wild Hunting

Sorcerer 3: Wild Hunting 2015 RPG of the Year

"Wizard 3: Wild Hunting" will be the last of the trilogy series. The story will have a grand finale, but it is not the final work of the "Wizard" series. This game uses the latest REDengine3 engine production, players can explore in a seamless world, using a non-linear plot settings, the overall scale is 30 times the previous work. Together with realistic character settings, fascinating stories, and an open environment where players can freely navigate without having to load, we will take the game experience to a new level, giving players a more realistic experience and completeness. Full sense of substitution.

"Wizard 3" is a very graphic game. Even a high-end graphics card such as the GTX 980 barely feeds it. At the same time, the default A card performance in the game is obviously inferior to that of the N card in the same level. As a game developed using NVIDIA Gameworks technology, it is destined to be more thorough optimization of the N card. Gameworks effects incorporate tools such as PhysX, TXAA, surface subdivision, HBAO+, FlameWorks, and FaceWorks, which greatly simplifies the development process. Plus, Gameworks does not develop source code. Developers who want to access the source code must be authorized by NVIDIA. As an industry competitor, AMD will never have the opportunity to use the technology provided by Gameworks, and developers of "Wizard 3" have said that they can't optimize the code for AMD graphics cards. It is recommended that A card users have better turn off Gameworks special effects.

For fair comparison of A card and N card, close the Hairworks in the test setup.

In the Wizards 3: Fantasia 120 second game FPS average frame count, Nvidia's NVIDIA GTX 1070 graphics performance lags behind the old flagship GTX 989 Ti non-public version.

VR performance test

The VR performance test is based on the SteamVR Benchmark, which is a non-quantitative test evaluation system. As long as there is no VR bottleneck, the system will give a full score of 11.

It is clear that the GTX 1070's VR performance level is a "crushed" level of "overkill". VR Ready video card, you can rest assured to buy it with its VR headset display system.

DirectX 12 game test

"Singularity Ashes" is the first listed native DX12 game, "Singularity Ashes" is a real-time strategy game produced by Stardock. The game was built using the Nitrous engine of Oxide Games. The background is set in the distant future. At that time, human beings are completely ideological and people have mastered the power of God. But humans find themselves in a war. The enemy is an ideological AI called "Haalee" that attempts to overthrow the dominance of mankind in the universe.

In the game, the player can control the power of the post-human or Haalee. This is an interplanetary-scale war. Each battle can cover the entire surface of a planet. Therefore, this view is beyond the players. Play any RTS game.

Game Settings Crazy,DirectX 12

Hitman Killer 6

Killer 6 is an action adventure game produced by Io Interactive and distributed by Square Enix. In this book, the main missions to be carried out include Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Vienna, etc. We are familiar with the veteran killer47, with the help of ICA to launch a global hunting campaign.

The game still contains a series of core elements, players can use a variety of props to complete the assassination mission in a variety of luxurious, exotic places around the world, in addition to using the new engine to create ultra-realistic details, the work will also be an open world, non-linear Games, random archive of sandbox games. In addition, the contract model officially returns, players can create unique challenges, share with other players, while eliminating the protagonist's magic pocket, trying to create a more realistic killer world.

Picture settings are shown above.

The result is an average of 82 fps

Benchmark Results:
---- CPU ----
9392 frames
81.69fps Average
3.53fps Min
169.11fps Max
12.24ms Average
5.91ms Min
283.13ms Max
---- GPU ----
9392 frames
82.00fps Average
3.41fps Min
1929.97fps Max
12.19ms Average
0.52ms Min
293.53ms Max

The rise of Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider: Rising is a stand-alone game developed by Crystal Dynamics and distributed by Square Enix. This game is Part 15 of Tomb Raider and was officially released in December 2015. In the game, the player controls the protagonist Laura to explore the supernatural phenomena and unknown world that Laura did not believe in before and seek the secret of eternal life. The game map includes multiple locations in the world. The searchable locations will be three times larger than the previous ones. The openness of the map is greater than that of the previous works. It is full of beautiful and dangerous scenes. Compared with the previous work, this book also published a Mandarin version in China.

The game quality settings SMAA, the highest quality preset, enable DX12

The rise of Tomb Raider The average number of frames per scene for the NVIDIA GTX 1070 graphics card is over 102fps.

Full load roasting temperature and various power consumption

Measure the noise of the GTX 1070 and measure the tuyere noise directly at the IO baffle of the video card.

The ambient noise is 41.1 dB.

In terms of temperature, the standby temperature is 38°C, the fan speed is only about 1200 RPM, and the noise is only 41.6 db. It is almost silent and quite quiet. This kind of noise level, honestly speaking, whether the introduction of a fan to stop the rotation is not really meaningful.

Standby power is also very low, when the desktop image processing, the above test configuration i7-6700K overclocked 4.5G + ASUS Z170I + Nvidia GTX 1070 machine input power consumption is only 47.67 watts.

OTES heat dissipation does have its drawbacks, which are mainly reflected in the full load of the Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card. Centrifugal fans are usually small in diameter, requiring a high speed to generate enough air volume when the graphics card is fully loaded. The high speed will inevitably increase the noise. Under the environment where consumers are paying more and more attention to silence, the manufacturers have to restrict the speed at full load, which will eventually result in a high full load temperature. At this time, the manufacturer set a temperature threshold as the down-protection temperature, which we call “temperature wall”.

We can see that when the Furmark presses, the Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card is downgraded from 1.8GHz to 1.5GHz, the temperature is maintained at a maximum of 83°C, and it is generally maintained at 82°C. The fan speed is also about 2100RPM. It can be seen that 83°C is the "temperature wall" of the Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card.

At this time, the noise at the outlet of the GTX 1070 increased to 49.1 dB. Although it was noticeable, it was not loud and slight wind noise was easily obscured by the game sound.

Furmark presses, the power consumption of the whole machine will also rise, and it will start to rush directly to 234.7 watts.

However, due to the existence of the “temperature wall” down-frequency protection, the GTX 1070 Boost frequency will gradually decrease as the copying/playing time is gradually extended, and the input power consumption of the whole machine will also be reduced to 208.3 watts to stabilize.

Game power consumption measured

3DMark input power consumption

Watch ass machine input power

Assassin's Creed: The Revolution's Input Power Consumption

GTA 5 GTA driver input power consumption

Watchdog Whole power input

to sum up

After the video card wave pushed forward, the front wave died on the beach. The video ladder diagrams after 30 games and running sub-benchmarks are summarized as follows:

In terms of overall performance, GTX 1070 is between GTX 980 Ti and non-public GTX 980 Ti. Compared with the previous GTX 970 graphics card, the GTX 1070 is up to 70%. However, the full-load power consumption is lower than GTX 980 Ti. 90W lower.

If it is not for the players who are pursuing the ultimate performance, Acai believes that the GTX 1070 is the best choice. It has better performance than the GTX 980 Ti (public version of the public version, non-public version of non-public), and the price is cheaper and power consumption. Lower, more memory capacity! And so powerful tactical nuclear bomb video card can be easily loaded into a compact mini ITX PC system. You can play games like this -

You can also play games on the sofa -

Without high-end graphics card, you must install a large chassis on the computer desk to make it easy to play. You also don't need to worry about the problem of overheating of the internal cooling of the chassis.

If this is not enough to impress the user to replace the video card, do you still have to wait another 2 years and expect to have a video card that doubles in price and halved the price?

The only thing that can be criticized is that the GTX 1070 FOUNDER'S EDITION graphics card has a "temperature wall" limitation that causes down-clocking, which is not conducive to long-term games. The card's BOOST frequency will become lower and lower with the accumulation of heat. If you need more than one hour of long game, it is recommended to use the non-public radiator GTX 1070 graphics card for better heat dissipation performance.

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