 The Nvidia GTX 1070 is sure to be a hit card as it follows in the 970s footsteps numerically and has an aggressive price point of $449 US dollars for the Founders Edition and $379 US dollars for the custom versions that will come later. Steam Hardware Survey, beware! Does it have the performance to properly stake a claim to a chunk out of the comparatively huge amount of PC consumers wallets? TunnelBear is the easy to use VPN service that lets you use the web as if you're in one of 20 different countries. Learn more and try TunnelBear for free at the link in the video description. First let's start with specs. The GTX 1070 is the second card in their new Pascal lineup and it features a GP104 chip with 1920 CUDA cores compared to the 1080s 2560 and runs at a boost clock of 1683 MHz compared to the 1080s 1733 MHz. It also features the nice new 16nm process. Unlike the GTX 1080's shiny new GDDR5X memory, the 1070 is still sporting GDDR5 but is claiming the title of the world's fastest version of said memory as well as running out of the box at 8 gigabit per second, that paired with the new memory compression algorithm which gives you effectively 20% additional bandwidth results in 8 gigs of some pretty damn fast GDDR5. But beyond raw specs there are some other features Nvidia has baked into the Pascal cookie as well such as simultaneous multiprojection and Ansel which make VR gaming and multi-monitor gaming way better and bring gaming screenshots into basically the future along with some improvements to Nvidia VRworks but if you want to hear more about those click here to check them out in the official launch review for the GTX 1080. I spend more time on them there. We got our hands on the Founders Edition which sounds fancy but is really just what Nvidia is calling the reference version and selling for as previously mentioned $449, a full $70 more than the MSRP for base models from add in board partners whose cards we might be able to see at Computex this year but I expect more of the 1080s to be shown off than the 1070s as the launch is so close. The seemingly DSX inspired shroud features a similar aesthetic to the silver and black shrouds with blower style fans that Nvidia has been using for the past few generations but with more angles this time around. Connectivity is good as it features HDMI 2.0 for 4K at 60Hz, 3 DisplayPort 1.4 connectors for 4K at 120Hz or 8K at 60Hz holy crap and dual link DVI. SLI is a little confusing these days because of the introduction of new types of multi GPU support with DirectX 12. What you need to know for now is that classic Nvidia SLI only supports two way configurations by default and allows users to request something called an enthusiast key directly from Nvidia which will unlock 3 way and 4 way SLI even though it is no longer recommended by Nvidia. There is more information to be discussed here like in depth looks at MDA also known as Multi Display Adapter Mode and LDA Explicit also known as Linked Display Adapter Explicit Mode but we'll cover that in a future video exploring the performance differences and general support of each mode so stay tuned for that. Also just a quick note before moving on if it doesn't seem like we have a bunch of AMD cards in our testing it's because their new Polaris architecture which is supposed to compete with Pascal is right around the corner we'll have much more from the red team when those cards drop. With that said let's have a look at how our benchmarking turned out. We tested at 4K and 1440p even if you're watching this and have a 1080p monitor it's better when wielding this much power to run your games at higher resolutions anyway with something called super sampling to make things look super nice we have a guide on that here. Although we've been waiting for the VR games market to mature a bit before reviewing how good this thing is with the Rift and the Vive I did want to investigate what resolution exactly this card should actually be aimed at for standard desktop gaming. We know from the investigation of the 1080 that the 1080 is a rather capable 4K card as we kind of expected and while the story isn't the same for the 1070 it's impressive in its own way. With maxed out settings at every resolution it destroyed 1080p gaming showing that even with a minor amount of pulling back on the settings you would have a card that can give you the performance you need for your shiny new 140Hz monitor. At 1440p it kept flexing its muscles never dropping below 60fps with all of the settings cranked on whatever the highest preset was then in 4K it didn't quite sit up with its bigger brother but still managed higher than 30fps in every title with its settings cranked even a little bit higher with everything put to the max even above what the highest preset in some games were. Okay so it's mainly a 1440p card if you're going for beauty or a 1080p card if you're going for a wild frame rate gaming or a 4K card if you want to dial back on a fair bit of different settings or don't mind gaming at 30fps although I don't really recommend that if you can avoid it. At 1440p it handily beats its predecessor the 970 while we did expect this after the launch it's still quite awesome to see a card that isn't the flagship perform so well. Speaking of which what about dollars per frame? Well as expected the 1070 kind of rocks. The 1080 was already pretty good but it was against really big beastly expensive setups at 4K the 1070 when put up against more standard competition and something that you'd expect more people to run still performs quite impressively. We still need to wait for AMD's Polaris to really see where it lines up but for now I'm quite happy. For power draw the entire bench only drew 216 watts from the wall which is ridiculous and gives you borderline unlimited options for lower wattage power supplies. Pulse were even lower than expected as well sitting at 78 degrees celsius just wow. In conclusion the 1070 really looks like the card it needed to be. Sure the 1080 is great but its cost was also great. The 1070 is able to destroy 1080p gaming which is still the most popular resolution and gives people fantastic options for high refresh rate monitors and even gives out that sweet sweet nectar that is 1440p gaming at 60fps or above. 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