Friday, October 13th 2017
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Overclocking to be Restricted
NVIDIA could severely limit the overclocking capabilities of its upcoming "almost GTX 1080" performance-segment graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. The company will tightly control the non-reference clock-speeds at which its add-in card (AIC) partners ship their custom-design graphics cards; and there could even be tighter limits to which you can overclock these cards. NVIDIA is probably doing this to ensure it doesn't completely cannibalize its GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card, which has been recently refreshed with faster 11 Gbps GDDR5X memory.
The GTX 1070 Ti is based on a "GP104" Pascal silicon with a core-configuration that's vastly higher than the current GTX 1070, and too close to that of the GTX 1080. It features 2,432 CUDA cores, just 128 fewer than the GTX 1080, and core clock speed of 1608 MHz that's on-par with the pricier card, too. The GPU Boost frequency is set to 1683 MHz, which is lower than the 1733 MHz of the GTX 1080. It also features slower GDDR5 memory. The GTX 1070 Ti is expected to launch by the 26th of October, priced at $429.
Sources:
eTeknix, Expreview, VideoCardz
The GTX 1070 Ti is based on a "GP104" Pascal silicon with a core-configuration that's vastly higher than the current GTX 1070, and too close to that of the GTX 1080. It features 2,432 CUDA cores, just 128 fewer than the GTX 1080, and core clock speed of 1608 MHz that's on-par with the pricier card, too. The GPU Boost frequency is set to 1683 MHz, which is lower than the 1733 MHz of the GTX 1080. It also features slower GDDR5 memory. The GTX 1070 Ti is expected to launch by the 26th of October, priced at $429.
79 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Overclocking to be Restricted
Two stories with different sources being relayed by a 3rd party and repeated on TPU.
One source says manual OC is possible, the other says no. Meanwhile, Afterburner is prepped for the 1070ti or was I imagining that?
Point is their cards have been under strict lock-down ever since Kepler , they can do whatever they want.
Only thing being said is that OC 1070Ti cards will not be allowed from AIB partners (to not directly cannibalize GTX1080).
I know the 1070ti is easier to make, but I doubt $70 cheaper.
$499 1660, (gotta keep selling midrange for flagship prices too of course), $599 1660K.
Again, AVOID this POS
Selling stuff for less isn't always a good idea AMD's been doing it for the past decade that turned up so well for them /s. Speaking from a business's POV this is actually a very solid idea : Why lower (for a second time) the price of the 1080 when you can rake in more money with the ones that failed to become the 1080?. As for the rest of us it's easy.... you don't want/need it then don't buy it. Also with the prices of Vega at this time (Gloflo at it's best)/ the lack of AIB Vega, nvidia can flood the market with these and they will sell.
Actually hard limiting user overclock speeds through a bios limit or something like that would be very different. The shipped speed I hardly care about, since for overclockers what speed a card ships at isn't nearly as important as what it's ceiling is. Granted many gpus and cpus do it in a roundabout way with disabling cores or w/e, but I'd hope they wouldn't add an artificial hard clock limit via bios or something just to keep the 1080 competitive.
Anything is possible