NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Overclocking to be Restricted

[trog100]

One, no one batch will ever have a perfect yield that is why 1070s or any lower tier sku exist in the first place to recapture the failed dies, so your initial statement is false. No one knows when Nvidia started harvesting chips for a 1070ti it's highly unlikely they have just started recently, and more plausible they've passively collecting dies well in advance for this SKU. Once initial demand for 1070s settled they only needed to use the worst useable dies to meet demand and then portion out and set aside the rest for other uses(e.g. super oc editions or other variants). Disabling dies is usually a last resort.

market demand is one thing.. yields are another.. yields improve.. market demands if the prices are about right stay the same.. crippling good chips to match demand is the norm.. it has been for a number of years.. binning is just the cover up story.. he he

trog

 

[Vya Domus]

GP104 was relatively small to begin with , Nvidia probably already had pretty good yields.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Looks like this rumor was wrong/misunderstood; https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia-gtx-1070-ti-overclocking

 

[Totally]

TL;DR Since there will be no reference 1070ti, it was mandated to AIBs that they are limted to reference clocks in order to avoid factory overclocked cards right out of the gate. In turn that fact somehow got morphed to Nvidia was locking overclocking.

 

[lexluthermiester]

TL;DR Since there will be no reference 1070ti, it was mandated to AIBs that they are limted to reference clocks in order to avoid factory overclocked cards right out of the gate. In turn that fact somehow got morphed to Nvidia was locking overclocking.

However, this does not "lock" the clocking down. Users can still change/modify the Core/Memory clocks like any other card.