Review: MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X

By Zak Storey

Introduction and design

Nvidia’s original GTX 970 was long hounded as the best value for money card you could get last generation. Packing a meaty 1,664 CUDA cores and a final boost clock coming in at a respectable 1,178 MHz, this 4GB card was fully capable of powering practically all AAA titles at 1080p at fairly respectable frame rates.

The GTX 1070 is its successor and the new generation of young blood poised to take the crown off its value-oriented older cousin. So what’s new?

Well, there’s an additional 256 CUDA cores this time round, a higher boost clock running up to 1683 MHz (1797 MHz on the MSI Variant we have in OC Mode) and an additional 4GB of GDDR5 VRAM.

Of course, it’s running off of Pascal’s mighty 16nm FinFET manufacturing node, enabling 6.5 TFLOPS of overall performance, or thereabouts. That’s close enough to a Titan X in spec, but for half the price.

If you take a look back at our first review of the GTX 1080 that launched at the beginning of this June, you’ll know our biggest complaint was with the price. The Founder’s Edition …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac