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
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- 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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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?