Tuesday, May 17th 2016

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Specifications Revealed
NVIDIA's second graphics card based on its GP104 "Pascal" silicon, the more affordable GeForce GTX 1070, hits the shelves on June 10, 2016. At the May 7th event, the company was surprisingly quiet about its specifications, until now. It turns out that slower memory isn't the only thing setting the GTX 1070 apart from the GTX 1080. The company will also cut down the CUDA core count, a proportionate number of TMU count, and lower the GPU clock speeds.
NVIDIA set the MSRP for the GeForce GTX 1070 at US $379, $50 higher than the launch-price of the GTX 970, the most popular SKU based on the GM204 silicon. The company also plans to sell a premium reference-design card, dubbed the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, at $449, at a $70 premium. NVIDIA hopes to make the GTX 1070 the go-to card for Summer 2016 PC upgrades.The specifications follow.
GeForce GTX 1070
NVIDIA set the MSRP for the GeForce GTX 1070 at US $379, $50 higher than the launch-price of the GTX 970, the most popular SKU based on the GM204 silicon. The company also plans to sell a premium reference-design card, dubbed the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, at $449, at a $70 premium. NVIDIA hopes to make the GTX 1070 the go-to card for Summer 2016 PC upgrades.The specifications follow.
GeForce GTX 1070
- 16 nm "GP104" silicon, 7.2 billion transistors, "GP104-200-A1" ASIC
- 1,920 CUDA cores, 15 out of 20 streaming multiprocessors enabled on the GP104 silicon
- 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs
- 256-bit GDDR5 memory, 8 GB standard memory amount
- Max GPU Boost frequency 1600 MHz
- 6.75 TFLOP/s single-precision floating point performance
- 150W TDP, single 8-pin PCIe power connector
- 3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b
- 2-way SLI with SLI HB bridge support
86 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Specifications Revealed
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The crazy talk was things like "GTX 1080 is faster than 980s SLI", that WAS about VR
I really doubt the 1070 will be more than 20% slower than the 1080, but we'll see. Looks like insta-buy for me.
If it's like the 970, they will have 2 partition. 224 + 32 memory controller. ie. 224GB/s from the first 7GB vram only.
You can take the 6.5TF (which insinuates at least close to 'real' 1700b), you can take 1080's real boost (~1860/1886/1898mhz) which insinuates somewhere slightly over 1700mhz boost, or literally one or two steps below 1080's rated boost clock (which 970 was similar compared to 980)...etc.
You could even take the ratio of units disabled from the TDPs (150w/180w), subtract the ~20w for ram....and all come to the same rough conclusion.
It'll probably be faster than 980ti (both 'stock' and overclocked) by literally just about the smallest margin possible. Like you said, ~80-83% of a 1080 sounds spot on imho.
For me though, this is actually insta-wait-for-gddr5x-P10. It's really a MASSIVE disappointment.
That said, so is 1080. The fact it seems to cut off it's clock scaling (limited by TDP) at 225w conveniently to short-shrift general 4k60 gaming performance is a gigantic nvidia-style middle finger to the gaming populace:
"You will buy this because it is the best available, and then you will buy the next thing that is overpriced to do the thing the last thing should have. Then later we will re-release the former thing doing what it should have in the first place"
Sure, sure...you can buy a $1000 2x8-pin card in 3 months (or whatever) when they eventually come out, but that kind of defeats the purpose of the card, doesn't it?
Both the reviews AND the 1070 specs lead me to wait for P10. I still have complete and no-proof hope P10 will have less PPC than 1080, only slightly higher than 1070, but perhaps clock similar to both while having similar compute to the former and general gaming perf to the latter.
Is that optimistic? Maybe...but one can hope. Xfire for the price of a 1080 (while actually getting the perf I want) would be A-OK.
Worst-case, there's always Vega and/or the eventual cheap iteration of GP100 (perhaps 52 units?) which will probably give me what I want for a similar price to 1080 before not too long.
I agree with the guess that the 1070 will preform at 80 - 85 % of the 1080. The 25% reduction in cuda cores will not be that bad to performance, it (suposedly) has the same number of ROPs, but a 25% reduction in TMUs could be more of a problem at 1080p.
That's a tier lower than 1070. (490/490x would compete with it).
My point is, you'd need to wait for at least October (first Vega from AMD might be released then) to see competition in, lol, any tier. So far we only have:
470 - ? 150-200$
480 - ? 200-299$
? - 1070 449$
? - 1080 699$ (789€, oh, fuck you, nZilla)
? - ?
Nvidia is just trying really hard to hide that fact with some smoke and mirrors surrounding clocks, power and boost.
This is also why I feel the 1070 is priced 100 bucks too high.