The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition Review: GP104 Comes in Threes
by Nate Oh on November 2, 2017 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- Pascal
- GTX 1070 Ti
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12)
A veteran from our 2016 game list, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation continues to be the DirectX 12 trailblazer, with developer Oxide Games tailoring and designing the Nitrous Engine around such low-level APIs. Ashes remains fresh for us in many ways: Escalation was released as a standalone expansion in November 2016 and was eventually merged into the base game in February 2017, while August 2017's v2.4 brought Vulkan support. Of all of the games in our benchmark suite, this is the game making the best use of DirectX 12’s various features, from asynchronous compute to multi-threaded work submission and high batch counts. While what we see can’t be extrapolated to all DirectX 12 games, it gives us a very interesting look at what we might expect in the future.
Settings and methodology remain identical from its usage in the 2016 GPU suite. To note, the latest version of Ashes has changed the Extreme graphical preset, dialing down MSAA from x4 to x2, as well as adjusting Texture Rank (MipsToRemove in settings.ini).
Here, the GTX 1070 Ti cleanly beats Vega 56, and even surpasses Vega 64 at sub-4K resolutions. While normally an AMD hardware favoring game, driver improvements over the past few months seem to have given the lead over to NVIDIA.
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Nfarce - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
"Vega 56 beats 1070 in almost all games."It beats the reference GTX 1070, but a factory overclocked 1070 pulls ahead again, especially overclocked on top of the factory overclock. Vega 56 (or 64 for that matter) does not have that type of overclocking headroom. This has long been an advantage for Nvidia. AMD GPUs have a history of being terrible overclockers. My old EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ could be overclocked to 980 performance without even touching the voltage for example.
LastQuark - Saturday, November 4, 2017 - link
Vega 56 BIOS can be upgraded to the Vega 64 BIOS for another 20% speed boost. Vega can only do 5% max. With Vega 56 lower price point by over $50, cheaper Freesync monitor options, and 2x the availability of GSync, Vega 56 is still making a lot of sense for new buyers.B-Real - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
According to this theory, you can't compare the 1070 to the Vega56, as the 1070 is 5 degrees Celsius hotter...damonlynch - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
It should be "nonetheless", not "none the less", in the introduction to the Final Words ;-)jardows2 - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Good showing. At MSRP, a good argument (from these tests at least) can still be made for Vega 56. Not sure if 1070ti is worth $50.00 more, but you do get a little bit better performance, and most important to me, a lower noise profile at load. Keeping it interesting for sure!CaedenV - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
So.... it is essentially a direct Vega 56 competitor except that it will be available on store shelves for purchase?Really hoping that this will cause the normal 1070 prices to drop a bit *fingers crossed*. I picked up a 4k monitor last year and my gaming has been quite limited on it with my GTX 960. A 1070 will fill in quite nicely for now, and next year when the new cards come out I'll pick up a 2nd 1070 for SLi to really make 4K gaming smooth.
BrokenCrayons - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
SLI doesn't seem like a good solution these days given tepid support from the GPU manufacturers and very few modern titles that are optimized to take advantage of a 2nd graphics card. You might have a better experience if you set aside the first 1070's cost until next year and then use the funding from both to purchase a 1080 or just hang on to see what happens with Volta since there'll likely be consumer GPUs available sometime in 2018.vladx - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
AMD has no chance at all, a RX Vega 56 in my country is $150 more expensive than the newly released GTX 1070 Ti.Sorjal - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Easiest check to see potential mining impact is toss a ti and non in a pc and test with some miner program. Nicehash legacy is probably the best for comparative stats. Run their benchmark on both cards on precise and compare the results. There will be some variance, but it should provide a decent reference. Nvidias are typically used on ones that are more gpu intensive, with Zcash probably the largest. AMD works off their bandwidth and are favored for corresponding currencies like Etherium and Monero. The nice hash legacy will test against most of the major ones including Ethereum, Monero, and ZCash.Given the increased CPU performance, it is probably being tested mining wise as we speak
Sorjal - Thursday, November 2, 2017 - link
Remember to overclock and undervolt. Energy effeciency is a large factor. 1070's seem to be run between 65-70% power limit. A voltage meter on the outlet may be useful in this case as you can look at the voltage change for each test for each card