The GTX 1070 is a graphics card from Nvidia based on Pascal architecture which was a beast of its time. It was releaseed back in 2016, and it is 8 years ago. It sometimes surpassed the performance of its previous generation ultimate flagship, the GTX 980 Ti while costing much less at $379 MSRP having more 8GB of VRAM instead of 6GB like the GTX 980 Ti and it also had less power consumption compared to GTX 980ti and was rated at 150W. The GTX 1070 was also a very good card for over clockers, the card can pretty easily be over clocked to 2 ghz and the card used to run just fine.
Specifications of GTX 1070
- The specifications of the GTX 1070 are pretty amazing and some of it will shock you if you are not familiar with old graphics cards.
- It was built on the 16 nm process, and based on the GP104 graphics processor.
- Just like its previous generation this also has support for DirectX 12.
- It features 1920 shading units, 120 texture mapping units, and 64 ROPs.
- NVIDIA has paired 8 GB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 1070, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. Yes you read that right a 256 bit memory, in a 70 series card, that was how good the 70 series used to be.
- The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1506 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1683 MHz, memory is running at 2002 MHz.
- Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 draws power from 1x 8-pin power connector, with power draw rated at 150 W maximum.
- It has multiple outputs for Display which include: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a.
- And lastly the bus interface of the GTX 1070 is PCIe 3.0 x16.
How does it perform today in games?
Starting of with a game that made the GTX 10 series GPUs bending on their knees, Cyberpunk 2077, the GTX 1070 performs well considering it is a 8 year old GPU. You get to see around 50fps with FSR off at medium settings, and if you turn on the FSR you get to see well above 60 FPS which is just what you need to play the game smoothly.
Next is the Ghost of Tsushima where at medium settings with FSR native and you get to see around 45 FPS. Although here the GPU get used upto 90% only, I don’t know why this game doesn’t uses the GPU fully but this is the kind of FPS you get to see in this game. Using the FSR 3.1 takes the FPS to well near 80 frames which is an insane jump and it changes the overall gaming experience to a new level.
In Delta Force Hawk Ops, at 1080p high settings, it was giving around 90 fps which was great, Battlefied gives a similar kind of experience providing around 78 to 88 fps.
Alan wake 2 makes the GPU really struggle and pushes it to a point it barely keeps up the frames above 30 fps.
Forza Horizon 5 runs flawlessly giving around higher 70s to early 90s with settings set to 1080p Ultra.
Didn’t do the testing for Esports games as they are not very GPU hungry games, but I can say for sure the way it is handling the AAA titles of current generation, it can easily give around 150+ fps in all types of Esports games.
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