MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8 GB

[JTwrenn]

I gave you the numbers in that post... The GTX 970 is a 150W card. Two in SLI is 300W. A single 1070 is a 150W card.

Well. Sort of. The if you look at a this..

You can see what I mean. The nvidia 1070 card pulls 30w less than a 1070 msi card. But this is on OC mode I believe ( can't find the article that says the mode right now). I am wondering if when on silent mode it is equal to or less than the 1070 stock card. I am thinking it will be close, but because the card has a very different power system I am worried it won't be and instead will be 175w no matter what because of the voltages. I think it will go down, but don't know how much. The decision will then be based on the amount of power do I go stock or MSI. I really want to go MSI and will probably do so anyway but 30w difference is not tiny so I want to make sure I know what I am deciding between. Make sense?

 

[EarthDog]

I do not have the FE card to compare. With how limited the voltage control is on Pascal, I find it difficult to believe there is that much (talking ~20% more) difference. But hey, his testing is his testing and I believe it. With how little the difference is between clocks, I am not sure that 30W will be made up from OC Mode to Silent mode. I don't think the modes touch the voltage in the first place...

Cutting through your self imposed minutia, the end game here is a single 1070 is ~175W while your current solution is 300W.

 

[Proppie]

Why do they show the 970's SLI as having 8Gb RAM? It was said in the test it's using Dx11 so why do they stack the VRAM?

 

[P4-630]

Why do they show the 970's SLI as having 8Gb RAM? It was said in the test it's using Dx11 so why do they stack the VRAM?

Good one, I just see it now, and a single GTX970 seems to perform better than GTX970 SLI in the graphs

 

[W1zzard]

Why do they show the 970's SLI as having 8Gb RAM? It was said in the test it's using Dx11 so why do they stack the VRAM?

VRAM in multiGPU doesn't combine. In order to keep a uniform display format it is displayed as "8 GB".

We know that you know that it doesn't combine.

 

[Cityman]

It looks a good card,and if I was building a new system,I'd probably go for the msi x or z variant of it.But running a 390x msi card which retails in the UK at about £300,compared to the msi x at £450/z at £525,I see no reason to buy it, given the 390x vs 1070 x benchmarks are neck and neck.Ok,it probably costs me £10 per annum more to run the amd 390x,but then,15 years is a long time to get your money back ;-)

 

[P4-630]

It looks a good card,and if I was building a new system,I'd probably go for the msi x or z variant of it.But running a 390x msi card which retails in the UK at about £300,compared to the msi x at £450/z at £525,I see no reason to buy it, given the 390x vs 1070 x benchmarks are neck and neck.Ok,it probably costs me £10 per annum more to run the amd 390x,but then,15 years is a long time to get your money back ;-)

I think a GTX1070 is far better in gaming then a 390x...
Why talk about 15 years? Lol...