Introduction
Nvidia has wowed the computing world with its new GeForce GTX 1080: a monster graphics card that promises a 30% performance increase over the last generation while reducing power consumption by 28%.
They’re stunning numbers, but the GTX 1080 comes with another big headline figure: its launch price of £619 (around $898 or AUS$1,244) for the Founders Edition. That’s a hefty premium for new technology, but not every gamer will need such mighty tech.
There’s where Nvidia’s GTX 1070 comes in. It’s a cheaper card that’s still going to serve up huge power – and it’s on the way for a rumored price of below £300 (around £435 or AUS$602).
Specifications
That huge 30% performance improvement is delivered by Nvidia’s new GPU and memory architectures.
The GTX 1080’s GP104 GPU uses an architecture called Pascal, which makes improvements to each individual stream processor while switching to a manufacturing process called 16nm FinFET.
The 16nm FinFET processor is a huge leap forward over the 28nm process used for the last generation of cards. FinFET transistors aren’t built on a single plane – instead, they use several fins – and use multiple gates, which means more hardware …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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