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MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver OC 8 GB Review

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NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 earlier this year, featuring the company's new Pascal architecture, a brand-new 16 nanometer production process, and GDDR5X memory. In our launch-day review, we were truly impressed by how well NVIDIA claimed the performance throne with the 1080, but also the GTX 1070 managed to impress with its high-end performance at an attractive sub-$400 price-point. The reference-design card, however, is sold at a $70 premium over the GTX 1070 Founders Edition sitting at $449.

The GeForce GTX 1070 uses the same Pascal GP104 graphics processor as the GTX 1080, with just 1920 enabled shaders instead of 2560, which also affects the number of texture units that are down to 120 from 160. With 64, the number of ROPs is the same, and so is the memory capacity of 8 GB. However, today's review subject, like all GTX 1070 variants, uses GDDR5 memory, unlike the GTX 1080 that comes with GDDR5X. GDDR5X offers twice the bandwidth at the same operating frequency, so NVIDIA is running the GeForce GTX 1070's memory at a frequency of 2 GHz in order to make up for that.



In this review, we are testing the MSI GTX 1070 Quick Silver OC, which was released as part of the company's 30-year celebrations. The card is based on the GTX 1070 Gaming Z, but comes with a non-red color theme and different operating frequencies. just like on the Gaming Z, RGB support is included, at a retail price of $425.

GeForce GTX 1070 Market Segment Analysis
 Radeon
R9 Fury
GeForce
GTX 980 Ti
Radeon R9
Fury X
GeForce
GTX 1070
MSI GTX 1070
Quick Silver OC
GeForce
GTX 1080
Shader Units358428164096192019202560
ROPs649664646464
Graphics ProcessorFijiGM200FijiGP104GP104GP104
Transistors8900M8000M8900M7200M7200M7200M
Memory Size4 GB6 GB4 GB8 GB8 GB8 GB
Memory TypeHBMGDDR5HBMGDDR5GDDR5GDDR5X
Memory Bus Width4096 bit384 bit4096 bit256 bit256 bit256 bit
Core Clock1000 MHz1000 MHz+1050 MHz1506 MHz+1582 MHz+1607 MHz+
Memory Clock500 MHz1750 MHz500 MHz2002 MHz2002 MHz1251 MHz
Price$310$390$380$380$425$615
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