NVIDIA Posts Full GeForce GTX 1070 Specifications: 1920 CUDA Cores Boosting to 1.68GHz
by Ryan Smith on May 18, 2016 10:15 PM EST
Back when NVIDIA first announced the GeForce GTX 1080 earlier this month, they also briefly announced that the GTX 1070 would be following it. The GTX 1070 would follow the GTX 1080 by two weeks, and presumably to keep attention focused on the GTX 1080 at first, NVIDIA did not initially reveal the full specifications for the card. Now with the GTX 1080 performance embargo behind them – though cards don’t go on sale for another week and a half – NVIDIA has posted the full GTX 1070 specifications over on GeForce.com.
| NVIDIA GPU Specification Comparison | ||||||
| GTX 1080 | GTX 1070 | GTX 970 | GTX 770 | |||
| CUDA Cores | 2560 | 1920 | 1664 | 1536 | ||
| Texture Units | 160 | 120 | 104 | 128 | ||
| ROPs | 64 | 64 | 56 | 32 | ||
| Core Clock | 1607MHz | 1506MHz | 1050MHz | 1046MHz | ||
| Boost Clock | 1733MHz | 1683MHz | 1178MHz | 1085MHz | ||
| TFLOPs (FMA) | 8.9 TFLOPs | 6.5 TFLOPs | 3.9 TFLOPs | 3.3 TFLOPs | ||
| Memory Clock | 10Gbps GDDR5X | 8Gbps GDDR5 | 7Gbps GDDR5 | 7Gbps GDDR5 | ||
| Memory Bus Width | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | ||
| VRAM | 8GB | 8GB | 4GB | 2GB | ||
| FP64 | 1/32 | 1/32 | 1/32 | 1/24 | ||
| TDP | 180W | 150W | 145W | 230W | ||
| GPU | GP104 | GP104 | GM204 | GK104 | ||
| Transistor Count | 7.2B | 7.2B | 5.2B | 3.5B | ||
| Manufacturing Process | TSMC 16nm | TSMC 16nm | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm | ||
| Launch Date | 05/27/2016 | 06/10/2016 | 09/18/14 | 05/30/13 | ||
| Launch Price | MSRP: $599 Founders $699 |
MSRP: $379 Founders $449 |
$329 | $399 | ||
Previously disclosed at 6.5 TFLOPs of compute performance, we now know how NVIDIA is getting there. 15 of 20 SMs will be enabled on this part, representing 1920 CUDA cores. Clockspeeds are also slightly lower than GTX 1080, coming in at 1506MHz for the base clock and 1683MHz for the boost clock. Overall this puts GTX 1070’s rated shader/texture/geometry performance at 73% that of GTX 1080’s, and is a bit wider of a gap than it was for the comparable GTX 900 series cards.
However on the memory and ROP side of matters, the two cards will be much closer. The GTX 1070 is not shipping with any ROPs or memory controller channels disabled – GTX 970 style or otherwise – and as a result it retains GP104’s full 64 ROP backend. Overall memory bandwidth is 20% lower, however, as the GDDR5X of GTX 1080 has been replaced with standard GDDR5. Interestingly though, NVIDIA is using 8Gbps GDDR5 here, a first for any video card. This does keep the gap lower than it otherwise would have been had they used more common memory speeds (e.g. 7Gbps) so it will be interesting to see how well 8Gbps GDDR5 can keep up with the cut-down GTX 1070. 64 ROPs may find it hard to be fed, but there will also be less pressure being put on the memory subsystem by the SMs.
Meanwhile as is usually the case for x70 cards, GTX 1070 will have a lower power draw than its fully enabled sibling, with a shipping TDP of 150W. Notably, the difference between the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 is larger than it was for the 900 series – where it was 20W – so we’re going to have to see if GTX 1070 ends up being TDP limited more often than GTX 1080 is. In that sense TDP is somewhat arbitrary – its purpose is to set a maximum power consumption for cooling and power delivery purposes – and I’m not surprised that NVIDIA wants to stay at 150W or less for the x70 series after the success that was the GTX 970.
Like the GTX 1080, the GTX 1070 will be launching in two configurations. The base configuration is starts at $379 and will feature (semi) custom partner designs. Meanwhile as previously disclosed, NVIDIA will be offering a Founders Edition version of this card as well. The Founders Edition card will be priced at $449 – a $70 premium – and will be available on day one, whereas this is not guaranteed to be the case for custom cards.
The GTX 1070 Founders Edition card will retain the basic stylings of the GTX 1080, including NVIDIA’s new angular shroud. However I have received confirmation that as this is a lower TDP card, it will not get the GTX 1080’s vapor chamber cooler. Instead it will use an integrated heatpipe cooler similar to what the reference GTX 980 used.
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TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
I sure hope polaris 10 is good. My 770 is 3 years old in 11 days, and that was built on a year old chip. It's finally starting to show it's age, and even SLI cant save it.ChefJeff789 - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
I seem to be in the minority, but I don't really care that Nvidia is charging more for the FE cards. It's not a long wait for the AIB cards. If you don't want to pay for the FE cards, then don't... What's the big freaking deal? Just vote with your wallet. If they don't sell many, they will likely drop the price. They certainly will the next time around if FE sales numbers are garbage.LostWander - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
Seems like most would have rather skipped that voting with their wallets step and just gotten a consumer friendly release without a fair margin of these (already in short supply) cards being made into overpriced editions. It's nothing to freak out over, just annoying.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
i think the concern is that OEMss will use this as an excuse to jack up the price on their 3rd party cooled 1080s. Even if they sold it at $680, it would still be cheaper than a founder edition, while being much higher than the $599 MSRP of the card. or perhaps over $700, since you ARE getting a much better cooler, they could hold that as advertisement "only $20 more than the founder edition, but runs 45% cooler!"I can see many companies doing exactly this. They had no issue jacking up the prices on AMD cards during the bitcoin rush, they'll have no issue jacking up the price now. The only 1080s that will be $599 will most likely be the cheap models with plastic shrouds and loud fans. Any decent card will probably be around the FE pricing.
kaesden - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
unfortunately I fully expect you to be 100% correct. the $599 / $379 prices will be vaporware. The only way to reign in prices on these cards will be for AMD to release something competitive at a lower price point.milkod2001 - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
The deal is: NV is expecting us to pay extra for just average reference design and to believe that 3rd party cooler solution would be $599(1080) and $379(1070) which will never happen. That was always more expensive than reference cards. I find it almost as NV is scamming us. Why they just did not say: Hey, this are $699 and $449 GPUs and 3rd party solution are coming?jasonelmore - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
reference cards area always valued more. go on ebay and type gtx 980 reference. and notice how they are all $50-$75 higher than a ACX type cooler.xthetenth - Friday, May 20, 2016 - link
For people who don't want a fancy version of a bad cooler type with an inability to deliver enough power for a proper overclock, all it is is a way to paper over a launch and claim a release date when what they're interested in won't be available.Cranky Yankee - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
I guess us procrastinators will get the last laugh. After the 1070 comes out, you geeks won't have Dick Nixon, err, I mean my 460SE, to kick around anymore.rocky12345 - Thursday, May 19, 2016 - link
I do not know if it is price gouging as so many have stated but they are over inflating the price because at the moment there is no new released cards from AMD so Nvidia is pricing their cards at a premium right now. Will they go down in price yes most likely but it will be over a long period of time. Now the founders edition cards are completely a waste of money & are a money grab for sure but the extra money they cost are worth it to some & they will pay the extra for those cards. If you want companies to stop using these types of business tactics then stop supporting them when they do these types of things. I was reading about the movie Assassins Creed & how they are going to have some sort of pre order thing & different editions of ticket levels that will cost a lot of money for the top package. I'm sorry but that would be considered price gouging or just plain & simply put trying to snag a lot more money out of the fans but there will be a lot of people that will pay the $1200 for the highest package so they can brag they have the best tickets & a whole lot of trinkets to go with it. If this is successful you will see a lot more of this type of crap in the movie industry just like we have seen this crap in the gaming industry. All it does is drive up the prices to a point that the common Joe can not afford to buy a game or soon to be even go to the movies because of the greed factor if we as the consumer stooped supporting these types of actions the big companies would be forced to stop using these types of practices but there are just to many suckers out there that have to be first for everything or have bragging rights to say oh look I just spent $1200US to go to a movie & get all these useless trinkets..yay for me...lol