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
The Test
To preface with relevant news, NVIDIA released driver version 388.13 WHQL earlier this week, bringing official support for the GTX 1070 Ti ahead of its release today. In addition, 388.13 brought game ready drivers for Call of Duty: WWII, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Need for Speed Payback. For resolved issues, NVIDIA has addressed second monitor blanking, yellow exclamation notices for graphics in Device Manager, and a corner case involving gamestreaming on hybrid notebooks. More details can be found in the 388.13 release notes. 388.13 is available for download on NVIDIA's driver download page.
For our review of the GTX 1070 Founders Edition, we are using NVIDIA's 388.09 driver supplied to us. The 2017 benchmark suite remains almost identical to the one described in the RX Vega review; inconsistent 1080p results for Dawn of War III were resolved and redone, while the Total War: Warhammer results from now onwards reflect the updated built-in benchmark, as Creative Assembly had changed the benchmark in late August.
As always, we try to use the best performing API for a particular graphics card.
| CPU: | Intel Core i7-7820X @ 4.3GHz |
| Motherboard: | Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming 7 (BIOS version F7) |
| Power Supply: | Corsair AX860i |
| Hard Disk: | OCZ Toshiba RD400 (1TB) |
| Memory: | G.Skill TridentZ DDR4-3200 4 x 8GB (16-18-18-38) |
| Case: | NZXT Phantom 630 Windowed Edition |
| Monitor: | LG 27UD68P-B |
| Video Cards: | AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (Air Cooled) AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 AMD Radeon RX 580 AMD Radeon R9 Fury X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Release 388.09 (Press) AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.3 |
| OS: | Windows 10 Pro (Creators Update) |
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jrs77 - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
God those GPU-prices are extreme. All across the board they're some 30% too high imho.The last GPU I bought was a GTX660, which cost just a tad under $200. Now the 1060 costs $100 more than that.
The GTX1070 should cost $350 and the GTX1080 $500. These are the price-brackets that existet just a couple years ago.
Yojimbo - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
You're exaggerating the price differences a little. You can get a 1060 6 GB for $260, and the 1080 does start at $500. And if you had a 2 GB 660 that's a bit like the 3 GB 1060, which can be had for $205.DDR3 prices per bit are close to where they were 3 years ago, and significantly higher than 5 years ago. I'm not sure how GDDR5 prices compare for then and now, but it's a safe bet that demand outstripping supply in the memory market has affected GDDR5 as well. Then consider that the GTX 1070 has twice the VRAM as the GTX 970.
I think cryptocurrency was responsible for the high prices of graphics cards earlier this year, but as of now perhaps it's memory prices that are keeping them high. The closeness in price of the 1080 and 1070 and the big difference in price of the 1060 3 GB and 1060 6 GB probably still have to do with cryptocurrency. The 1080 and 1070 are based on the same GPU, and the pricing is affected by the yield and the demand for each card.Cryptominers demand the 1070,but not the 1080. If the 1070 is in demand relative to the the 1080 at a high ratio than the yield ratio of the GPU, it makes economic sense for the price of the 1070 to move upwards. Perhaps this situation is one reason the 1070 Ti only has one SM disabled. A similar situation exists for the 1060 3 GB/6 GB pair, pushing the 6 GB version up in relation to the 3 GB (cryptominers demand the 6 GB, I believe)
damianrobertjones - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
I NEED to see the minimum frame rate on each of the games. It's pretty much silly to show me 565+ fps when it dips to 42fps.CiccioB - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
Tons of graphs are presented for each game and they all measure the timings on average and minimum. Have a look at the small pics below the big graphs.letmepicyou - Friday, November 3, 2017 - link
Not a big fan of how nVidia is creating facial recognition technology to help usher in the police state...Yojimbo - Saturday, November 4, 2017 - link
Which world is freer, one where we spend our time thinking of which technologies to ban and how to ban them, then implementing bans and spending our efforts enforcing the ban? Or one where we let technology progress and then work to integrate the technology in a beneficial way (which may require changes in laws after a period of disruption)? I'd argue that the second way is freer. How we use the technology is up to us. One could argue, I guess, that the Amish face no dangers regarding facial recognition policing (although maybe that's one technology they would like, because I think the reason they reject technologies is because they don't want individuals to have the power to be free from the Amish group structure).r13j13r13 - Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - link
5 fpsGastec - Tuesday, February 20, 2018 - link
The link for EVGA GTX 1070 Ti FTW2 opens up an Amazon page that in turn leads to the Buying Option FULLFILLED BY AMAZON of only $1,099.99. That way we get to save 0.01 cents. Isn't it Amaz ing?