Wednesday, December 5th 2018
NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1070 with GDDR5X Memory
It looks like NVIDIA bought itself a mountain of unsold GDDR5X memory chips, and is now refreshing its own mountain of unsold GP104 inventory, to make products more presentable to consumers in the wake of its RTX 20-series and real-time ray-tracing lure. First, it was the GP104-based GTX 1060 6 GB with GDDR5X memory, and now it's the significantly faster GeForce GTX 1070, which is receiving the newer memory, along with otherwise unchanged specifications. ZOTAC is among the first NVIDIA add-in card partners ready with one such cards, the GTX 1070 AMP Extreme Core GDDR5X (model: ZT-P10700Q-10P).
Much like the GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X, this otherwise factory-overclocked ZOTAC card sticks to a memory clock speed of 8.00 GHz, despite using GDDR5X memory chips that are rated for 10 Gbps. It features 8 GB of it across the chip's full 256-bit memory bus width. The GPU is factory-overclocked by ZOTAC to tick at 1607 MHz, with 1797 MHz GPU Boost, which are below the clock-speeds of the GDDR5 AMP Extreme SKU, that has not just higher 1805 MHz GPU Boost frequency, but also overclocked memory at 8.20 GHz. Out of the box, this card's performance shouldn't be distinguishable from the GDDR5 AMP Core, but the memory alone should serve up a significant overclocking headroom.
Much like the GTX 1060 6 GB GDDR5X, this otherwise factory-overclocked ZOTAC card sticks to a memory clock speed of 8.00 GHz, despite using GDDR5X memory chips that are rated for 10 Gbps. It features 8 GB of it across the chip's full 256-bit memory bus width. The GPU is factory-overclocked by ZOTAC to tick at 1607 MHz, with 1797 MHz GPU Boost, which are below the clock-speeds of the GDDR5 AMP Extreme SKU, that has not just higher 1805 MHz GPU Boost frequency, but also overclocked memory at 8.20 GHz. Out of the box, this card's performance shouldn't be distinguishable from the GDDR5 AMP Core, but the memory alone should serve up a significant overclocking headroom.
78 Comments on NVIDIA Unveils GeForce GTX 1070 with GDDR5X Memory
Sure you could argue about the mining boom/bust but this situation was kinda avoidable & if it were avoided, who knows we might've seen better prices for RTX.
The same story happened on few occasions, like with several revisions of GT730, or long-forgotten GTX650Ti [boost], or the recent GTX1060 but in all cases people find justification for complaints.
If it was something along the lines of GT1030 DDR4, or GTX970 misinformation, or recent shenanigans with an entire Polaris refresh lineup, then it's worth complaining about.
650ti boost for example was launched in a very lively GPU landscape, closely followed by a Kepler Refresh that pushed the GTX 680 to a lower price point with faster memory. At the same time, the 650ti boost performed like a 660 but at the cost of a 650ti. These GDDR5X GPUs won't be making any sort of jump like that, and they are visibly handicapped to make them slower. If Nvidia had clocked the memory at its stock 10Gb I think the noise would be a whole lot different.
Right now you can see them putting effort in handicapping performance, almost 3 years after the fact... That is something else and if there is one thing it isn't, its 'for the gamers'. Being the optimist in saying 'but its free performance' is... well, being overly optimistic in my opinion. This performance isn't free at all, the price is too high to begin with. Especially when you know these chips and boards could have become 1080's that compete with a more expensive RTX alternative.
Meanwhile the Gigabyte 56 is being offered for 10% less than the Sapphire cards, but again there's no difference in performance whatsoever, while currently their 64 is the same price as a Nitro, with obviously worse build. Yet, while it has worse quality cooling, mine GB64 (card size was a priority when I bought it) runs at 1.7ghz with 1045mhz HBM2 and sticks to its BIOS temp values like a champ...
Doesn't seem like much of a clear cut difference b/n great and shitty ones to be honest, especially if you factor the prices in.
You can’t convince brain dead fans.
"NVIDIA's crypto revenues accounted for 7% and 3% of its second and third quarter revenues, respectively, so we can assume that percentage remains in the low single digits. Yet NVIDIA's total revenues rose 56% annually during the second quarter, 32% during the third quarter, and another 34% during the fourth quarter -- fueled by the strength of its gaming, professional visualization, and data center businesses. "
www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/17/nvidias-cryptocurrency-business-isnt-that-importan.aspx
I’d rather buy Pascal card again, if I needed one.
That delusional underdog hate is so pathetic.