NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti video card review: almost 1080

In the Radeon RX Vega family of accelerators, it was the youngest model, Vega 56, that turned out to be the most successful product. By putting a large distance in performance and price between the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, NVIDIA allowed the competitor to fill this niche with a video card that not only surpasses the GTX 1070 in performance at standard frequencies, but can also easily overclock to the level of the GeForce GTX 1080. At the same time At the time, the company was able to cover the gap that had opened in the GeForce 10 series with the same success with an updated version of the GTX 1070. The fact that NVIDIA’s response to AMD’s successful move in the high-performance discrete graphics segment would be exactly this became known long before the official announcement of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. The question is how far NVIDIA is ready to push the new model closer to the GeForce GTX 1080 in order to put the Radeon RX Vega in its place.

⇡#Technical characteristics, price

In the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GPU, NVIDIA has enabled four more SMs (shader multiprocessors), for a total of 512 additional CUDA cores and 32 texture mapping units. As a result, only by unlocking computing resources not used in the original GTX 1070, the “titanium” version received a 27 percent increase in the throughput of the corresponding stages of the pipeline. At the same time, the frequency characteristics and power limit of the new product are selected in such a way that the potential of a more productive GPU is not constrained by power consumption in real tasks: although the upper of the two frequencies that NVIDIA reports for its video cards has not changed compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 (1683 MHz ), the base GTX 1070 Ti is equal to the GeForce GTX 1080 (1607 instead of 1506 MHz), as well as in power (180 W). Interestingly, the RAM frequency in the Ti version remains the same - 8 GHz, while NVIDIA today offers manufacturers of adapters based on the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 a choice - install memory chips with the frequency that was provided for by the original specifications, or at 1 GHz higher.

Since there's a wide margin between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 in both performance and price, the new GTX 1070 Ti has its own slot at $449, while the GTX 1070's MSRP ($349) remains unchanged since the price cut caused by the GTX launch. 1080 Ti. By the way, this time NVIDIA does not differentiate between partner products and the Founders Edition: the latter is sold on the company's website at the same price that original design cards should aim for. And the name Founders Edition in this case is arbitrary - after all, the reference design card will go on sale simultaneously with partner models based on the GeForce GTX 1070. The recommended cost of the GTX 1070 Ti for the Russian market is 33,990 rubles. - for 2,400 rubles. more than the GTX 1070 cost in the NVIDIA online store. The latter, in the Founders Edition modification, is being withdrawn from sale, but the original versions will continue to exist.

Manufacturer	NVIDIA
Model	GeForce GTX 1070	GeForce GTX 1070 Ti	GeForce GTX 1080	GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
GPU
Name	GP104	GP104	GP104	GP102
Microarchitecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Technical process, nm	16 nm FinFET	16 nm FinFET	16 nm FinFET	16 nm FinFET
Number of transistors, million	7 200	7 200	7 200	12 000
Clock frequency, MHz: Base Clock / Boost Clock	1 506 / 1 683	1 607 / 1 683	1 607 / 1 733	1 480 / 1582
Number of shader ALUs	1 920	2 432	2 560	3 584
Number of texture mapping units	120	152	160	224
ROP number	64	64	64	88
RAM
Bus width, bits	256	256	256	352
Chip type	GDDR5 SDRAM	GDDR5 SDRAM	GDDR5X SDRAM	GDDR5X SDRAM
Clock frequency, MHz (bandwidth per contact, Mbit/s)	2000 (8000)	2000 (8000)	1 250 (10 000) 1 375 (11 000)	1 376,25 (11 010)
Volume, MB	8 192	8 192	8 192	11 264
I/O bus	PCI Express 3.0 x16	PCI Express 3.0 x16	PCI Express 3.0 x16	PCI Express 3.0 x8
Performance
Peak performance FP32, GFLOPS (based on maximum specified frequency)	6463	8186	8873	11340
Performance FP32/FP64	1/16	1/16	1/16	1/16
RAM bandwidth, GB/s	256	29/72	320/252	484
Image output
Image output interfaces	DL DVI-D, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b	DL DVI-D, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b	DL DVI-D, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b	DL DVI-D, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, HDMI 2.0b
TDP, W	150	180	180	250
Retail price (USA, excluding tax), $	349 / 399 (Founders Edition, nvidia.com)	449 (recommended)	499 / 549 (Founders Edition, nvidia.com)	699 (Founders Edition, nvidia.com)
Retail price (Russia), rub.	31,590 (Founders Edition, nvidia.ru)	33,990 (recommended)	45,790 (Founders Edition, nvidia.ru)	52,990 (Founders Edition, nvidia.ru)

ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Turbo Edition;

Cooler type: fan Number of fans: One Connectivity: 3x DP, 1x HDMI, 1x DVI

Points in favor of the product:

• Ideal for applications with limited air flow
• Clean and minimalistic design

Indicates the product:

• The fan is noisy under load
• Without back plate

About the video card

As for the final record, we have something unusual. This is another Asus card, but it's not a Strix model. Rather, it is the GTX 1070Ti Turbo Edition, a fan-shaped version. This type of cooling is not as popular for GPUs (more on that below), although fans do have their merits.

At first glance, it's obvious that Asus has taken a different approach to this model when it comes to design: no aggressive gaming aesthetic and no RGB lighting, just a beautiful, minimalist look that will fit seamlessly into almost any build.

functions

Basic hours	1607 MHz
Increase your hours	1721 MHz
connection	2x DisplayPort 1.4 2 HDMI 2.0 ports 1x dual-link DVI-D
Power consumption	180W
Recommended power supply	500W

Our thoughts

Don't be fooled by the clean looks - this is still a gaming graphics card, and it can keep up with the previous two models when it comes to overclocking. However, this fan has its advantages and disadvantages.

I mean, the thing that all fans have in common is that they're loud. After all, it's just a fan pulling air out of the back of the card, so you'll need to keep the RPM pretty high.

So while this card will compete with the previous two in terms of performance, it will be a little louder. However, even so, blower cards are ideal for narrow cases with little airflow because, as mentioned above, they have an enclosed appearance and exhaust hot air from the back of the card and out of the case.

⇡#Test stand, testing methodology

Test bench configuration
CPU	Intel Core i7-5960X @ 4 GHz (100 MHz × 40), constant frequency
Motherboard	ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME
RAM	Corsair Vengeance LPX, 2133 MHz, 4 × 4 GB
ROM	Intel SSD 520 240 GB + Crucial M550 512 GB
power unit	Corsair AX1200i, 1200 W
CPU cooling system	Thermalright Archon
Frame	CoolerMaster Test Bench V1.0
Monitor	NEC EA244UHD
operating system	Windows 10 Pro x64
Software for AMD GPUs
All video cards	AMD Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.10.2 (Tesselation: Use application settings)
NVIDIA GPU software
All video cards	GeForce Game Ready Driver 388.09

Benchmarks: synthetic
Test	API	Permission	Full screen anti-aliasing
3DMark Fire Strike	DirectX 11 (feature level 11_0)	1920 × 1080	Off
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme		2560 × 1440
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra		3840 × 2160
3DMark Time Spy	DirectX 12 (feature level 11_0)	2560 × 1440

Benchmarks: games
Game (in order of release date)	API	Settings	Full screen anti-aliasing
			1920 × 1080 / 2560 × 1440	3840 × 2160
Crysis 3 + FRAPS	DirectX 11	Max. quality. Start of the Swamp mission	MSAA 4x	Off
Metro: Last Light Redux, built-in benchmark		Max. quality	SSAA 4x
GTA V, built-in benchmark		Max. quality	MSAA 4x + FXAA + Reflection MSAA 4x
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt		Max. quality	AA + HairWorks AA 4x
DiRT Rally, built-in benchmark		Max. quality	MSAA 4x
Rise of the Tomb Raider, built-in benchmark	DirectX 12	Max. quality, VXAO off	SSAA 4x
Tom Clancy's The Division, built-in benchmark		Max. quality, HFTS off	SMAA 1x Ultra + TAA: Supersampling	TAA: Stabilization
Ashes of the Singularity, built-in benchmark		Max. quality	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x	Off
DOOM	Vulkan	Max. quality. Foundry Mission	TSSAA 8TX
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, built-in benchmark	DirectX 12	Max. quality	MSAA 4x
Battlefield 1 + OCAT		Max. quality. Start of the Over the Top mission	TAA
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, built-in benchmark	Vulkan	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x
Total War: WARHAMMER II, built-in benchmark	DirectX 12	Max. quality, Battle Benchmark	MSAA 4x

Benchmarks: video decoding, computing
Program	Settings
DXVA Checker, Decode Benchmark, H.264	Files 1920 × 1080p (High Profile, L4.1), 3840 × 2160p (High Profile, L5.1). Microsoft H264 Video Decoder
DXVA Checker, Decode Benchmark, H.265	Files 1920 × 1080p (Main Profile, L4.0), 3840 × 2160p (Main Profile, L5.0). Microsoft H265 Video Decoder
LuxMark 3.1 x64	Hotel Lobby Scene (Complex Benchmark)
Sony Vegas Pro 13	Sony benchmark for Vegas Pro 11, duration - 65 s, rendering in XDCAM EX, 1920 × 1080p 24 Hz
SiSoftware Sandra 2016 SP1, GPGPU Scientific Analysis	Open CL, FP32/FP64
CompuBench CL Desktop Edition X64, Ocean Surface Simulation	—
CompuBench CL Desktop Edition X64, Particle Simulation— 64K	—

Mining performance

Hashrate

Algorithm	MH/s (stock/overclock)
Equihash	465/473(H/s)
Ethash	29/32 (MH/s)
NeoScrypt	1000.0/1050 (Kh/s)
CryptoNightV7	620/632(H/s)
NIST5	47/51(MH/s)
Groestl	34.6/36.9(MH/s)
Lyra2REv2	400800/41010 (Kh/s)
PHI1612	21.3/22.1(MH/s)
TimeTravel10	17.9/19.7(Mh/s)
Xevan	2.9/3.8(MH/s)
X16R	8.9/10.3

⇡#Test participants

The following video cards took part in performance testing:

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB);
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (1000/7012 MHz, 12 GB);
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1506/8008 MHz, 8 GB);
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB);
• AMD Radeon R9 Fury X (1050/1000 MHz, 4 GB);
• AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo;
• AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo.

Contents of delivery

The video card comes in a large box. Included with the video card is only a manual, a disk with drivers and software, as well as two reusable cable ties for laying power cables.

⇡#Performance: 3DMark

The difference in performance between the GeForce GTX 1070 and the Ti version is not as great as the GPU configuration of the video cards would lead you to hope, but still reached an impressive 15%. In any case, this is enough for the GTX 1070 Ti to be on par with the Radeon Vega RX 56 in synthetic tests, which are usually favorable to the architecture of AMD chips.

3DMark (Graphics Score)
Permission	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (1000/7012 MHz, 12 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1506/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X (1050/1000 MHz, 4 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Fire Strike	1920 × 1080	19 914	17 115	17 519	21 694	16 105	19 848	22 503
Fire Strike Extreme	2560 × 1440	9 480	7 928	8 298	10 264	7 559	9 488	10 711
Fire Strike Ultra	3840 × 2160	4 688	4 042	4 079	5 001	3 821	4 774	5 400
Time Spy	2560 × 1440	6 677	5 106	5 693	7 111	5 192	6 281	7 079
Max.	−14%	−12%	+9%	−18%	+2%	+15%
Avg.	−17%	−13%	+8%	−20%	−1%	+12%
Min.	−24%	−15%	+6%	−22%	−6%	+6%

Specification

The default operating frequencies correspond exactly to those given in the technical documentation. They are changed using proprietary ASUS GPU Tweak software, where you can switch between the proposed modes and create your own templates.

In testing, we made do with the default settings and manually changing operating frequencies.

Testing was carried out at room temperature around 23 °C. Under such conditions, even under long-term load (about a quarter of an hour) in the Superposition Benchmark test application, the temperature only slightly exceeded 62 °C, and this was when overclocked at frequencies of 1850–1860 MHz and even at the maximum 1886 MHz, which we were able to conquer. The fan speed ranged from 1245-1282 rpm in normal mode and about 1500 rpm in Boost mode. The noise was extremely low and was completely covered by the hum of the hard drive and the active cooling system of the power supply. Typical performance for an overclocked GP104 chip.

Rice. 11 – Screenshot of MSI Afterburner

In the summer heat, with the case open and longer work under load, the performance may be less comfortable, but even a slight increase in the noise and temperature of the video card is unlikely to greatly affect the acoustic comfort and its performance properties.

Cheaper GTX 1070 Ti samples with a simplified heat dissipation system show more severe heating and produce more noise, and have less overclocking potential, but only due to worse cooling.

Reference samples of the GTX 1080 show significant drops at operating frequencies up to 1.8 GHz, which is partly compensated by the difference in the number of computing units, which is about 5%.

It follows that the main advantage of the GTX 1080 is its higher operating frequency.

Is it possible to at least partially reduce this gap?

All GTX 1070 models were able to exceed the 9 GHz mark, but this variant was barely able to cope with the 8900 MHz mark, which is a common indicator for the model range. We were able to get the core to work at a frequency of 1.8 GHz, and in Boost mode we were able to achieve 2088 MHz.

Rice. 12 – Screenshot GPU-Z

With this overclocking, the maximum power consumption increased by 1/5 of the declared one.

⇡#Performance: games (1920 × 1080, 2560 × 1440)

In gaming benchmarks with moderate screen resolutions, the GTX 1070 Ti also demonstrated a 14-15% advantage over the original version of the video card and at the same time was 8-9% superior to its main competitor, the Radeon RX Vega 56. However, to achieve this goal, NVIDIA had to reduce the gap between the two older GP104-based models to 9–10%.

1920 × 1080
Permission	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (1000/7012 MHz, 12 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1506/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X (1050/1000 MHz, 4 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x	38	32	38	47	34	36	39
Battlefield 1	TAA	116	85	87	117	91	117	132
Crysis 3	MSAA 4x	73	66	70	79	61	60	65
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	MSAA 4x	35	30	31	38	33	35	38
DiRT Rally	MSAA 4x	97	84	86	100	65	81	85
DOOM	TSSAA 8TX	194	151	163	200	167	200	200
GTA V	MSAA 4x + FXAA + Reflection MSAA 4x	80	67	74	84	55	62	64
Metro: Last Light Redux	SSAA 4x	85	74	75	92	69	79	87
Rise of the Tomb Raider	SSAA 4x	57	47	47	63	42	51	57
Tom Clancy's The Division	SMAA 1x Ultra + TAA: Supersampling	75	54	66	82	61	74	81
Total War: WARHAMMER II	MSAA 4x	35	32	33	45	30	36	39
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	AA + HairWorks AA 4x	81	62	68	88	50	70	70
Max.	−9%	−1%	+29%	−6%	+3%	+14%
Avg.	−17%	−12%	+10%	−21%	−7%	−1%
Min.	−28%	−25%	+1%	−39%	−22%	−20%

2560 × 1440
Permission	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (1000/7012 MHz, 12 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1506/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X (1050/1000 MHz, 4 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x	32	26	30	35	27	27	30
Battlefield 1	TAA	87	62	67	89	62	94	98
Crysis 3	MSAA 4x	48	41	43	53	39	38	41
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	MSAA 4x	22	19	19	25	19	22	24
DiRT Rally	MSAA 4x	71	61	62	73	49	61	64
DOOM	TSSAA 8TX	130	100	108	136	110	131	146
GTA V	MSAA 4x + FXAA + Reflection MSAA 4x	58	48	53	63	39	44	48
Metro: Last Light Redux	SSAA 4x	49	44	43	52	41	45	50
Rise of the Tomb Raider	SSAA 4x	34	29	28	38	27	31	36
Tom Clancy's The Division	SMAA 1x Ultra + TAA: Supersampling	52	39	45	56	44	51	60
Total War: WARHAMMER II	MSAA 4x	23	23	22	28	20	24	25
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	AA + HairWorks AA 4x	61	49	52	64	40	52	59
Max.	−2%	−4%	+20%	−12%	+8%	+15%
Avg.	−17%	−13%	+9%	−21%	−8%	+1%
Min.	−29%	−23%	+2%	−34%	−24%	−18%

The transition to ultra-high resolution did not change the balance of results among NVIDIA video cards. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is still 14% better than the original GTX 1070, while the GTX 1080 is still 10% better than the GTX 1070 Ti. But the advantage of the GTX 1070 Ti over the Radeon RX Vega 56 has decreased to 5%.

3840 × 2160
Permission	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X (1000/7012 MHz, 12 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (1506/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon R9 Fury X (1050/1000 MHz, 4 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	Off	42	32	35	45	39	43	47
Battlefield 1		51	37	44	54	41	50	55
Crysis 3		32	31	28	36	28	29	32
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided		25	21	21	28	15	25	28
DiRT Rally		48	41	41	50	33	40	43
DOOM		69	54	56	75	59	69	75
GTA V		48	41	43	52	37	42	47
Metro: Last Light Redux		44	39	38	47	37	40	43
Rise of the Tomb Raider		40	35	35	44	30	37	42
Tom Clancy's The Division	TAA: Stabilization	29	23	27	33	2	29	34
Total War: WARHAMMER II	Off	19	17	18	22	17	19	21
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt		37	29	35	41	22	35	39
Max.	−3%	−5%	+14%	−7%	+3%	+17%
Avg.	−16%	−12%	+10%	−28%	−5%	+5%
Min.	−27%	−19%	+4%	−93%	−17%	−10%

What is the income from 1070, the relevance of mining for 2022

Any miner who owns a GTX 1070 is interested in the question of how much mining of a particular cryptocurrency brings per day. This is especially important in 2022, when the profitability of mining cryptocurrencies has dropped significantly due to a decrease in their cost, as well as the emergence of ASICs for many algorithms that were previously used only by miners with rigs on video cards.

With an electricity cost of $0.06 per kilowatt, the GTX 1070 generates the following revenue (as of early April 2021) in dollars per day:

• Swap (Cuckaroo29s) - 2.42;
• BitTubeCash (CuckooCycle) – 2.39;
• Ethereum (Etash) – 2.37;
• Flux(ZEL) - 2.33;
• BitcoinGold (Zhash) - 2.32.

Enabling dual mining does not provide any profit due to the fact that the speed of mining second coins on ASICs is thousands of times higher than on video cards.

Based on current income levels and possible changes in cryptocurrency prices, it currently makes sense to mine Ether, Firo, and Mimblewimble forks on the GTX 1070.

⇡#Clock speeds, power consumption, temperature, overclocking

The maximum frequency that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics processor reached in our tests is 1886 MHz. This is the highest figure among the entire GeForce 10 family, because even in the GTX 1080 Founders Edition, auto overclocking, as a rule, rests on the 1860 MHz bar. It is not surprising that the GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 differ insignificantly in terms of power consumption. The FurMark test pushes both video cards to the power limit inherent in the standard BIOS settings, but in real-world tasks the GTX 1070 Ti still outperforms the older model with 9 W of power.

As attempts to overclock the GeForce GTX 1070 have repeatedly shown, in the original version of the card NVIDIA not only disables some of the GPU computing units, but also utilizes crystals that do not have a high enough frequency potential to serve as part of the GeForce GTX 1080. Contrary to hopes for the mature 16 nm FinFET process technology The GTX 1070 Ti is not far removed from the original GTX 1070 in this regard. The Founders Edition gives the overclocker the ability to increase TDP by 20% and add 100 mV to the GPU supply voltage limit, thereby unlocking several clock speed steps associated with voltage levels . However, our GTX 1070 Ti allowed us to move the base frequency slider only by 130 MHz relative to the nominal. The GPU's peak overclock clock reached 2,012 MHz, while the GTX 1080 typically manages another 100 MHz more. The effective RAM frequency was increased from the standard 8,008 to 8,808 MHz.

Performance: overclocking

One of the advantages of the Radeon RX Vega 56, in addition to the initially higher performance compared to the GeForce GTX 1070, is the overclocking potential - almost to the level of the Radeon RX Vega 64 and GeForce GTX 1080. Judging by synthetic tests, the GTX 1070 Ti easily repeated this achievement , although, in turn, the overclocked Vega 56 is still ahead of both the overclocked GTX 1070 Ti and the GTX 1080 in AMD's favorite benchmark.

3DMark (Graphics Score)
Full screen anti-aliasing	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1738/8808 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1900 MHz, 8 GB), +50% BP	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Fire Strike	1920 × 1080	19 914	21 716	21 694	19 848	22 598	22 503
Fire Strike Extreme	2560 × 1440	9 480	10 433	10 264	9 488	10 866	10 711
Fire Strike Ultra	3840 × 2160	4 688	5 135	5 001	4 774	5 433	5 400
Time Spy	2560 × 1440	6 677	6 677	7 111	6 281	7 093	7 079
Max.	+10%	+9%	+2%	+16%	+15%
Avg.	+7%	+8%	−1%	+13%	+12%
Min.	+0%	+6%	−6%	+6%	+6%

As for gaming tests, overclocking the GTX 1070 Ti allowed us to not only catch up, but also overtake the GTX 1080 along with Vega 64. Even if we put our opponents on an equal footing by overclocking the AMD card, the victory, and by a large margin, still remains for GTX 1070 Ti.

1920 × 1080
Full screen anti-aliasing	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1738/8808 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1900 MHz, 8 GB), +50% BP	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x	38	41	47	36	38	39
Battlefield 1	TAA	116	125	117	117	117	132
Crysis 3	MSAA 4x	73	64	79	60	70	65
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	MSAA 4x	35	39	38	35	40	38
DiRT Rally	MSAA 4x	97	107	100	81	87	85
DOOM	TSSAA 8TX	194	200	200	200	197	200
GTA V	MSAA 4x + FXAA + Reflection MSAA 4x	80	84	84	62	68	64
Metro: Last Light Redux	SSAA 4x	85	97	92	79	85	87
Rise of the Tomb Raider	SSAA 4x	57	64	63	51	57	57
Tom Clancy's The Division	SMAA 1x Ultra + TAA: Supersampling	75	87	82	74	82	81
Total War: WARHAMMER II	MSAA 4x	35	41	45	36	40	39
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	AA + HairWorks AA 4x	81	96	88	70	77	70
Max.	+19%	+29%	+3%	+14%	+14%
Avg.	+9%	+10%	−7%	+0%	−1%
Min.	−12%	+1%	−22%	−15%	−20%

2560 × 1440
Full screen anti-aliasing	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1738/8808 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1900 MHz, 8 GB), +50% BP	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	MSAA 4x + TAA 4x	32	35	35	27	31	30
Battlefield 1	TAA	87	89	89	94	86	98
Crysis 3	MSAA 4x	48	53	53	38	45	41
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided	MSAA 4x	22	25	25	22	26	24
DiRT Rally	MSAA 4x	71	79	73	61	65	64
DOOM	TSSAA 8TX	130	141	136	131	136	146
GTA V	MSAA 4x + FXAA + Reflection MSAA 4x	58	65	63	44	49	48
Metro: Last Light Redux	SSAA 4x	49	56	52	45	50	50
Rise of the Tomb Raider	SSAA 4x	34	36	38	31	36	36
Tom Clancy's The Division	SMAA 1x Ultra + TAA: Supersampling	52	60	56	51	58	60
Total War: WARHAMMER II	MSAA 4x	23	27	28	24	27	25
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt	AA + HairWorks AA 4x	61	73	64	52	56	59
Max.	+20%	+20%	+8%	+18%	+15%
Avg.	+12%	+9%	−8%	+1%	+1%
Min.	+2%	+2%	−24%	−15%	−18%

3840 × 2160
Full screen anti-aliasing	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1608/8008 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti (1738/8808 MHz, 8 GB)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (1607/10008 MHz, 8 GB)	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1600 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo	AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (1471/1900 MHz, 8 GB), +50% BP	AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 (1546/1890 MHz, 8 GB), Turbo
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation	Off	42	47	45	43	44	47
Battlefield 1		51	54	54	50	57	55
Crysis 3		32	36	36	29	34	32
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided		25	28	28	25	29	28
DiRT Rally		48	54	50	40	43	43
DOOM		69	78	75	69	71	75
GTA V		48	54	52	42	45	47
Metro: Last Light Redux		44	50	47	40	43	43
Rise of the Tomb Raider		40	46	44	37	42	42
Tom Clancy's The Division	TAA: Stabilization	29	34	33	29	34	34
Total War: WARHAMMER II	Off	19	22	22	19	21	21
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt		37	41	41	35	39	39
Max.	+17%	+14%	+3%	+17%	+17%
Avg.	+13%	+10%	−5%	+5%	+5%
Min.	+6%	+4%	−17%	−10%	−10%

How much can you earn

First of all, the following algorithms are suitable for mining on such a card: Equihash, TimeTravel10, Equihash 192.7 (and also 144.5). The coins of these algorithms bring more profit per day than the coins of other algorithms.

Next are slightly less profitable algorithms, but they are also worth paying attention to: Ethash, NeoScrypt, X16R, Lyra2REv2.

Next come the algorithms whose coin mining is least profitable: PHI1612, Xevan, CryptoNightV7 and others.

Let's look at mining tests on the MSI1070 Ti Titanium video card, made on June 21, 2018, from one video card using different algorithms in one day.

Let's start with the most profitable algorithm, namely Equihash 144.5:

• Total coins – 820 BTCZ.
• Amount in dollars equivalent to mined coins – $1.21

Mining of this algorithm is the most profitable, which means it brings in the most money per day. It is most profitable to mine coins of this algorithm.

It is also profitable to dig coins using the TimeTravel10 algorithm:

• Total coins – 0.5053 BTX.
• Amount in dollars equivalent to mined coins – $1.09

At the moment there is a slight difference, but day by day these two algorithms change places, so digging them is equally profitable.

This is due to both the constantly changing complexity and the rates for a particular coin.

Next, we will consider algorithms that bring slightly less profit per day. Using NeoScrypt as an example:

• Total coins – 101 TCZ.
• Amount in dollars equivalent to mined coins – $0.97

This algorithm brings in even less money per day. Despite the fact that it brings a lot more coins, you should not fall for it. Although you get more coins, at the moment it is less money per day. Therefore, you can resort to “pseudo-mining” of coins of this algorithm.

For example, it takes 24 hours to mine the most profitable coin from the most profitable algorithm (for example, the BTCZ coin), immediately sell it on the exchange and buy TCZ. Thus, you will receive $0.24 more.

Thus, at the time of writing, you receive 21 more TCZ coins than with direct mining. The same goes for other less profitable algorithms. Let's consider the most unprofitable algorithm CryptoNightV7:

• Total coins – 0.0049 XMR.
• Amount in dollars equivalent to mined coins – $0.58

This algorithm brings in the least amount of money per day; mining it is unprofitable on an MSI 1070 TI video card.

But it is worth noting that difficulties on different coins periodically drop, and their prices also rise sharply. At such moments, it is profitable to mine coins whose algorithms are not always profitable to mine.

Mining Zcash

Mining Ethereum

⇡#Conclusions

In this round of competition for the discrete graphics market, NVIDIA had the opportunity to fend off AMD's move by releasing a more powerful video card between the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, instead of lowering the prices of existing models.

Compared to the first wave of accelerators based on the NVIDIA GP104 chip, the new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is in exactly the right position to provide a small but still measurable advantage over the competitor’s device at standard frequencies and at the same time surpass it in overclocking. To do this, NVIDIA had to to some extent put the GeForce GTX 1080 under attack, because if the Vega 56 can be overclocked almost to the level of the GTX 1080, then the updated GTX 1070 Ti is capable of even more.

And yet, in terms of performance, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti and Radeon RX Vega 56 are not so different as to declare the winner of the fight solely on the basis of technical parameters. Equally important are the actual retail prices at which competing devices will be sold in the coming months. But here NVIDIA again found itself in a more advantageous position: although the shortage of new generation AMD processors has subsided, the average cost of Vega video cards on the market still exceeds the recommended values, and original design boards are still on the way. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, in turn, starts from a ready-made platform that NVIDIA partners formed during the time of the first accelerators of the Pascal family.

Design and Layout

The first thing that catches your eye is the rather long length of the video card.

The proprietary WindForce 3X cooling system has fans with a diameter of 77 mm with a rotation speed of up to 4100 rpm, through which two thick heat pipes are visible.

For comparison, the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X has two 100mm diameter fans, which at a maximum speed of up to 2500 rpm can operate significantly quieter with the same efficiency. But we will compare this in tests later in this article.

From the side you can see that the heatsink is in contact with the plate covering the memory chips through thermal pads.

On the other hand, you can also clearly see how the radiator fins contact through the metal plate and thermal pads with the mosfets of the video card power system.

The photo above also shows that the cooling system is slightly longer than the printed circuit board and the power connector is not at the very edge, which will allow you to install the video card by pushing it a few centimeters into the drive rack.

On the same side of the video card there is a “Gigabyte” logo with RGB backlight and a “FAN STOP” logo with the same backlight, which lights up when the cooling system is operating in passive mode (fans do not spin) at low load on the video card (in office mode). This allows you to use this graphics card to create a silent PC (at least until you run a game or render video in a video editing program).

On the board and on the back, all connectors are covered with plastic plugs, which has long been a sign of good form.

Hidden underneath are purely digital connectors DVI-D, HDMI and 3 DisplayPort; connecting monitors with an analog VGA (D-SUB) input is not provided in any way in modern video cards (even through an adapter).

On the reverse side, the board is covered with a thick metal backplate that protects electronic elements and participates in heat dissipation, in the best traditions of modern video cards.

In general, the Gigabyte GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G video card looks simple and calm, its design is absolutely not flashy, but you can’t call it terrible either.

But next to it, the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X looks much more massive and solid, and it also feels noticeably heavier. You can feel the contribution of a more powerful cooling system with six heat pipes and a large radiator.

But because the MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X is too wide and the power connectors are on the edge, it won't fit into a drive rack in a compact case.

At the same time, the Gigabyte GTX 1070 Ti Gaming 8G allows you to do this thanks to its small width and the power connector offset from the edge.

The video card fit into a compact ATX case with a distance from the expansion slots to the disk rack of 275 mm, but it would not fit any further, as it rested against the opposite wall of the rack.

Both video cards were tested in a large free case and occupy exactly two slots - no more, no less.

And this is what the backlight of a video card from Gigabyte looks like, shimmering in different colors.

We'll look at backlight settings in the software section.