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| Specs at a glance: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 | |
|---|---|
| CUDA CORES | 1920 |
| TEXTURE UNITS | 120 |
| ROPS | 64 |
| CORE CLOCK | 1506MHz |
| BOOST CLOCK | 1683MHz |
| MEMORY BUS WIDTH | 256-bit |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 256GB/s |
| MEMORY SIZE | 8GB GDDR5 |
| Outputs | 3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b with support for 4K60 10/12b HEVC Decode, 1x dual-link DVI |
| Release date | Founders Edition: June 10 |
| PRICE | Founders Edition (as reviewed): £399, €499, $450; Partner cards priced at £329, €419, $379 |
In January, Nvidia's GTX 970 became the most popular graphics card on Steam—a remarkable feat considering the next most popular chip at the time, HD Graphics 4000, isn't really designed for gaming at all, but is instead integrated into Intel CPUs. Today, the GTX 970 still commands a hefty five percent share of the Steam audience. Its successor, the GTX 1070—the second graphics card based on Nvidia's latest Pascal architecture following the powerful but pricey GTX 1080—has some big shoes to fill.
And it does fill them... for the most part. As Nvidia promised, the GTX 1070 is indeed faster than both the GTX 980 Ti and the Titan X, and by some margin: as much as 12 percent in some tests. Just a couple of months ago these cards cost upwards of £500/$650—the GTX 1070, at the high end, costs just £399/$449.
In its Founders Edition form (Nvidia's new nomenclature for reference cards), the GTX 1070 is cool and quiet too, the smaller, more efficient TSMC 16nm FinFET manufacturing process letting Nvidia ramp up performance to Titan-beating levels, while keeping the TDP down to a reasonable 150W.
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