Geforce gtx 1070 ti first reviews now available

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the latest graphics card released by Nvidia and is a highly anticipated product since it brings the benefits of one of the most powerful Pascal architecture chips closer to users who do not have a budget for the most powerful and expensive cards. GeForce GTX 1070 Ti first reviews.

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti technical characteristics

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is based on a Pascal GP104 graphics core, the same that is used in the GeForce GTX 1080 although its specifications have been cut very slightly to place it one notch below its older sister. The new card has 2, 432 active CUDA cores that are divided into a total of 19 active SMs out of the total 20 that the chip has. This brings the total ROPs up to 64 units and the TMUs remain at 154 units. It is clear that we have a very powerful chip and barely inferior to the GTX 1080 that has only 128 more CUDA cores. The core of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti reaches base and turbo frequencies of 1, 607MHz and 1, 683MHz respectively with a TDP of 180W.

As for the memory, there is an important difference compared to its older sister, since the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti complies with 8 GB of GDDR5 memory that operates at a speed of 8 GHz and has a 256-bit interface, which is translates to a bandwidth of 256 GB / s. This should put it at a significant disadvantage compared to the GeForce GTX 1080, which has GDDR5X memory and reaches a bandwidth of approximately 384 GB / s, especially at very high resolutions.

Gaming performance

To analyze the performance of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti we have based ourselves on tests carried out by the pcworld environment with a large battery of games and the following equipment:

• Intel's Core i7-5960XCorsair Hydro Series H100iAn Asus X99 Deluxe16GB Corsair's Vengeance LPX DDR4EVGA Supernova 1000 G3SSD Samsung 850 EVO 512GBChasisCorsair Crystal Series 570XWindows 10 Pro

Consumption and temperature

We now turn to see the power consumption of the entire computer, in a load situation it has been measured with the game The Division at 4K resolution and the idle consumption has been measured by leaving the computer idle on the desktop for 3 minutes without doing anything.

Data analysis and conclusion

Nvidia has achieved its goal of equaling or exceeding the Radeon RX Vega 56, the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti equals or exceeds the AMD card in all comparative games except Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Unfortunately for Nvidia, the AMD card performs almost the same and has some additions such as FreeSync technology, which is really a very important added value when it comes to enjoying our favorite games.

On the other hand, the power consumption of both cards is quite similar, so Nvidia does not have a clear advantage in this case, not in vain the Vega 56 is the preferred option for users who are interested in the new AMD graphic architecture., because its energy efficiency is much better than that of the Vega 64 and the performance is not too far.

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Therefore, the most sensible thing would be to look at the price of both cards to see which is more attractive. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti has come out for an approximate price of 520 euros in the Spanish market, a price that is very close to 580 for which we can find some of the GeForce GTX 1080 so the difference between the two is very small.

We now look at the Radeon RX Vega 56, the boom in cryptocurrency mining makes its availability very low, but with any luck we can find it for around 460 euros in its reference model. The price difference with the GTX 1070 Ti is not very high but it exists so the AMD card may be more interesting for those users with a FreeSync monitor.

Our conclusion is that if you have a FreeSync monitor you opt for the Radeon RX Vega 56, otherwise opt for the cheapest of both depending on availability, because in performance and consumption it is almost a draw.

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