Just when AMD was getting comfortable with the RX Vega line-up, Nvidia has decided to crash the party and release a buffed up 1070, the 1070Ti. Nvidia has built this to go up against the RX Vega 56 and to sit pretty between the 1070 and 1080 in their own GPU line-up.
While we’ve previously seen Ti versions of cards, like the GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 960 Ti, this is a first for the company’s former mid-range card. Nvidia has slowly elevated the status of its x70 card from the celebrated mid-range GTX 670 to the high-end prominence the GTX 1070 knows today, and so it was inevitable we would see a Ti version of it too.
This late year surprise by the green team has all the makings of a classic coup d’état, does it outmuscle the competition?
Design
Like all the founder’s edition cards before it, the 1070Ti dons the familiar, silver and black chassis with the aesthetics remaining intact right down to the tee. It borrows the five-phase dual-FET power supply from the 1080, which means a TDP of 180 watts. Nvidia has also improved the copper air chamber for …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac