Nvidia Pascal GPU has 17 billion transistors

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Moar good reviews for GTX 1070:

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Everybody likes that GeForce GTX 1080, but the reality is that such high-end graphics cards have become too costly for many. A yeah and a half ago the GeForce GTX 970 however was a hit, a massive hit and within the same guidelines I feel that the GeForce GTX 1070 will be a tremendous success. Though Nvidia castrated the GPU a bit, the combo of the GPU with GDDR5 memory at 8 Gbps still offers plenty of horsepower. Realistically you are in the GeForce GTX 980 Ti range, and let's not forget that often the board-partner cards will be 10~20% faster as well. Now if you forget about the founders edition price-tag of $449 / 499 EURO for a second and think AIB/AIC prices, then you are looking at a $379 / 425 EURO bill for the cheaper models. So yeah that just makes a hell of a lot of sense, and you do get a full 8 GB of graphics memory as well (no puns here!). I stated it in the GeForce GTX 1080 article already, but 16 nm Pascal is working out surprisingly well for Nvidia. They have been able to clock the cards very high frequencies, and even this 1070 will boost in the 1.7~1.8 GHz domain, that's terrific.

The Pascal GP104 architecture is interesting, as in aside from a few changes in the pipeline, it looks VERY similar to Maxwell. Make no mistake there have been changes, but it shares a very similar structure. So the biggest benefit for Nvidia was 16 nm, as it allows them to drive their products to incredible clock frequencies whilst they can use less voltage, and that results in power consumption way under the 200 Watt marker. Though not that exquisite GDDR5X memory, the 1070 uses GDDR5 graphics memory, still it's effectively running at a nice data-rate of 8 Gbps which brings in a very nice memory performance boost compared to the last gen products. That fact armed with new color compression technologies effectively boosts the memory bandwidth a notch upwards compared to the GeForce GTX 970 and 980. Performance wise we really do need to compare to the GTX 970 with its 3.5 GB of effective memory, and yeah the GTX 1070 is much faster. You are looking at an order of 30 to 40% more performance, and that truly is substantial! It still is faster as a GTX 980 and roughly as fast as a 980 Ti. Next to that I have got to say, 8 GB 256-bit GDDR5 graphics memory also feels like an excellent and well-balanced amount of graphics memory anno 2016. Would you ever use 8 GB of memory? Well, not anytime soon. The largest number we ever measured as like 5 or 6 GB. But hey, who knows with titles like The Division / GTA5 and technologies like Ultra HD and / or DSR versus performance and VRAM what you find valid, or not. High up there in the enthusiast space there certainly is a market for cards like these. That makes these 8 GB models relevant for gaming.

The Pascal GP104 architecture is interesting, as in aside from a few changes in the pipeline, it looks VERY similar to Maxwell. Make no mistake there have been changes, but it shares a very similar structure. So the biggest benefit for Nvidia was 16 nm, as it allows them to drive their products to incredible clock frequencies whilst they can use less voltage, and that results in power consumption way under the 200 Watt marker. Though not that exquisite GDDR5X memory, the 1070 uses GDDR5 graphics memory, still it's effectively running at a nice data-rate of 8 Gbps which brings in a very nice memory performance boost compared to the last gen products. That fact armed with new color compression technologies effectively boosts the memory bandwidth a notch upwards compared to the GeForce GTX 970 and 980. Performance wise we really do need to compare to the GTX 970 with its 3.5 GB of effective memory, and yeah the GTX 1070 is much faster. You are looking at an order of 30 to 40% more performance, and that truly is substantial! It still is faster as a GTX 980 and roughly as fast as a 980 Ti. Next to that I have got to say, 8 GB 256-bit GDDR5 graphics memory also feels like an excellent and well-balanced amount of graphics memory anno 2016. Would you ever use 8 GB of memory? Well, not anytime soon. The largest number we ever measured as like 5 or 6 GB. But hey, who knows with titles like The Division / GTA5 and technologies like Ultra HD and / or DSR versus performance and VRAM what you find valid, or not. High up there in the enthusiast space there certainly is a market for cards like these. That makes these 8 GB models relevant for gaming.
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The GP104 Pascal GPU is rated as having a 150 Watt TDP under full stress, our measurements are only slightly above that at roughly 160 Watts. based upon the 1070 performance level you are looking at roughly 425~450 Watts for a stressed PC in total, that is okay. We are comfortable enough with a 600 Watt PSU, if you go with 2-way SLI, a 800~900 Watt power supply is recommended. Remember when purchasing a PSU, aim to double up in Wattage as your PSU is most efficient when it is under 50% load. Here again keep in mind we measure peak power consumption, the average power consumption is a good notch lower depending on GPU utilization. Also, if you plan to overclock the CPU/memory and/or GPU with added voltage, please do purchase a power supply with enough reserve. People often underestimate it, but if you tweak all three aforementioned variables, you can easily add 200 Watts to your peak power consumption budget as increasing voltages and clocks increases your power consumption.

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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition at $449 was found to perform faster more times than not when compared to the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X flagship graphics card with HBM memory that costs a whopping $639.99 before rebates. The custom Add-In-Board (AIB) partner cards for the GeForce GTX 1070 will likely be clocked faster than the Founder Edition model that we looked at today and will run just $379. That means the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is poised to dominate the $400 price point until AMD can come up with something in this price range to put some pressure back on NVIDIA. Right now the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070 video cards based on the new Pascal GPU architecture are going to dominate things! The GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition sold out in minutes and we have a good feeling that the GeForce GTX 1070 is going to sell like hotcakes as well.

Performance of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 was amazing for the price point. We took the average FPS from our Battlefield 4 results and found the cost per FPS based on Newegg pricing on May 29th, 2016. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 can be picked up for $309.49 and runs $8.99 per FPS on BF4 at 4K. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition isn’t too far behind at $9.30. The thing you need to keep in mind is that the GeForce GTX 1070 MSRP for third party cards is just $379.99. We charted that for fun with the results from the Founders Edition card and found it to be the best bang for the buck of all the cards at $7.85. The AMD Radeon R9 Fury, R9 Nano and R9 Fury X all proved to have the worst price versus performance ratio on this particular game title. This is bad news for AMD as they are no longer competitive when it comes to price versus performance. AMD’s flagship ‘Fury’ and ‘Nano’ cards might have the latest HBM memory, but the performance and price tag needs to be adjusted now that NVIDIA has released Pascal GPUs on the GeForce GTX 1070 and GeForce GTX 1080!

Our NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition video card also overclocked really well and we saw the boost clocks hit over 2100MHz while gaming with full stability and that left us pretty damn impressed. NVIDIA really did some great tuning to the Pascal architecture and of course the die shrink helped, but before we learned the details on these cards we didn’t think that we’d be running the core clock at 2100 to 2200 MHz! The best part of the GeForce GTX 1070 is that it isn’t a power hog. Our test system ran consistently in the 270-280W range while gaming and that is awesome. When we went back to spot check some numbers on the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X right after using the GeForce GTX 1070 the different was night and day. The Radeon R9 Fury X runs around 500 Watts and quickly changes the room temperature if you use it for an extended period of time. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is a solid performing card that is very well rounded. We have no complaints on performance, noise, power consumption, temperatures or anything.

If you can’t afford the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 at $599-$699 we highly suggest giving the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 a look at $379 to $449. This card is killer at 1080P and 1440 screen resolutions and it isn’t a slouch at 4K, but most 4K gamers might be yearning for the power of the GeForce GTX 1080 and we fully understand that! If you have an older GeForce GTX 500 or 600 series card the performance increase will be astonishing and we are looking at putting together an article to show the performance increases for folks with older cards here shortly.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 will hit store shelves on June 10th and it easily gets our recommended award!

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Going into this review, we knew that the GeForce GTX 1070 had 25% less CUDA cores than the GTX 1080, so we expected that on average the 1070 would be between 20 and 25% slower. Well, those expectations were met as the 1070 was 20% slower at 1440p and 18% slower at 1080p. However, considering that 1070 costs 37% less when comparing MSRPs (for the partner boards), this is an excellent value, and is why this product has been highly anticipated by a lot of people.

With Titan X and 980 Ti-like performance, the GTX 1070 looks like the best option for 1440p gamers, delivering well north of 60 FPS in nearly every game we tested.

AMD is yet to adjust its upper tier pricing, so the 1070 should come in at a little over 40% cheaper than the Fury X if that board partner MSRP is met. This doesn't bode well for AMD as the 1070 was 6% faster than the Fury X at 1440p and 12% faster at 1080p.

The other interesting AMD comparison is the soon-to-be-replaced R9 390, which currently costs around $300. While the 1070 is 27% more expensive, it delivered 36% more performance at 1440p and 39% more at 1080p, so it presents the better value.

For those wondering whether the 1070 would justify its $50 premium over the GTX 970, we're glad to report that you can expect anywhere from 40% to almost 70% more performance in today’s games. On average, the 1070 was 57% faster than the 970 which is similar to the 1080 vs. 980 performance gain.

The key advantage here for GTX 970 owners other than the huge jump in performance is the fact that it comes without a power penalty. The 1070 performs akin to a Titan X while drawing around 25% less juice.

Compared to the GTX 1080, the slight reduction in power usage for the 1070 means that the Founders Edition cooler can keep the card below 80 degrees at all times using the standard fan profile (assuming a room temp of 21 degrees or thereabouts). This is excellent for a reference cooler, especially because the 1070 runs almost silently. That said, there's no way it's worth paying an extra 18% over board partner cards which will very likely run even cooler while maintaining similarly quiet operation.

Another drawback of the Founders Edition card is in its overclocking headroom. Like the 1080, the 1070 was good for a minor bump in frequency which lead to a decent 12% performance boost. That isn't a terrible result, but we expect the partner boards to do considerably better on this front.

Overall, the GTX 1070 is an exceptional upper-tier offering that delivers previous-gen flagship performance at a serious discount. It's every bit as good as the 1080 we saw almost two weeks ago - in fact, you could argue that the 1070 is a better product thanks to its superior cost per frame ratio. With the initial results in, we're looking forward to variants by Nvidia's board partners as well as AMD's response.