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    NVIDIA has officially lifted the NDA for the GTX 1070 which will be priced at $379 for the non-reference  I mean non-Founders Edition card and $449 for the Founders Edition. Starting June 10th, we should see Founders Edition cards hit the market first which will then be followed by custom AIB cards that will vary in price anywhere from $380 to $450+. The GTX 1070 has a 256 bit bus like it's bigger sibling the 1080 but has 8 GB GDDR5 ram clocked at 8 GHz giving it less bandwidth than the 1080. In addition, the GTX 1070 has been gutted by NVIDIA and is left with 15 SM (streaming processors) and 1920 CUDA cores. It also features 120 TMU (texture mapping units) and 64 ROPs (render output unit/raster operations pipeline) with a peak fillrate of approximately 202 Gigatexels/sec. 

     

    Comparison of GTX 1080/1070/980 Ti
    GPU GTX 1080 GTX 1070 GTX 980 Ti
    GPU architecture Pascal

    Pascal

    		Maxwell
    Node 16 nm 16 nm 28 nm
    Transistor Count 7.2 billion 7.2 billion 8 billion
    Core Frequency 1607-1733 MHz 1506-1683 MHz 1000-1076 MHz
    Memory Frequency 10 Gbps 8 Gbps 7 Gbps
    Memory Type GDDR5x GDDR5 GDDR5
    Memory Bus 256 bit 256 bit 384 bit
    Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB 6 GB
    ROPs 64 64 96
    Shaders 2560 1920 2816
    GFLOPS 8,873 6,463 6,060
    Texture Units 160 120 176
    Texel Fill Rate 277.3 GigaTexels/sec 201.9 GigaTexels/sec 176 GigaTexels/sec
    TDP 180W 202W 250W
    External Power 8 pin 8 pin 8 + 6 pin

     

    Like the GTX 1080, the 1070 starts at a fairly high base clock of 1506 MHz with boost speeds of 1683 MHz and utilizes NVIDIA's newest Boost 3.0 technology. The cooling unit is pretty much the same between the 1080 FE and 1070 FE that features the new polygonal shaped shroud and fan blower. Like the 1080 FE, the 1070 FE comes with a backplate which theoretically helps keep components cooler. The power delivery system of the 1070 has been cut down a bit more compared to the 1080 and is equipped with a 4-phase dual-FET design. 

     

    1070PCB.jpg

     

    NVIDIA has stated that the GTX 1070 is as fast as a Titan X in most cases which means it should match or exceed a base 980 Ti in nearly ever metric. Based on the reviews below, it seems NVIDIA was right on the mark. 

     

    Here is a round-up in no particular order of current 1070 reviews:

    1. Linus TechTips: 
    2. Gamer's Nexus: 
    3. Hard|OCP: http://hardocp.com/article/2016/05/29/nvidia_geforce_gtx_1070_founders_edition_preview/#.V0uByfkrIuU
    4. TechSpot: http://www.techspot.com/review/1182-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070/
    5. PCPer: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/GeForce-GTX-1070-8GB-Founders-Edition-Review
    6. Hexus: http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/93050-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-16nm-pascal/
    7. SWECLOCKERS: http://www.sweclockers.com/test/22153-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070/10#content
    8. Hardware Canucks: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/72689-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-review.html
    9. Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-8gb-pascal-performance,review-33567.html
    10. GameSpot: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-review/1100-6440307/
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    Cant wait to get mine. been using a 660ti and wanting to switch to 1440p and my 660ti has started struggling to maintain 60fps in 1080 for some games.

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