I got my MSI Gaming 8G GTX 1070 today. Fedex couldn't find my address last week so I had to wait the weekend to pick it up. I am quite impressed so far.
Coming from an R9 290 Tri-X, this card is just as impressive. While not as long, the 1070 is much taller, pushing my case to its limits. It fits quite snugly.
The R9 290 has been rather lackluster in 4k performance on many newer titles. This GTX 1070 fills in quite well. I was only getting 40fps on R6 siege @ 4k with the 290,
but I can maintain 60fps at medium settings with ultra textures on the 1070. This card should be able to do 4k @ low-medium settings on newer titles.
GTA V runs incredibly well, not even needing to turn down settings from very high/high to maintain 60 fps.
ARMA 2 @ 4k is a chore for any GPU. My R9 290 suffered from many frame drops from zooming in.
Now the 1070 has none of those. Rendering ARMA 2 at 8k on the 290 brought FPS down to single digits. The 1070 can do 8k at same settings and maintain over 30 fps!
I couldn't even get 60 fps @ 1080p ultra for Elite Dangerous on my R9 290.
Now my GTX 1070 can do ultra @ 4k with a minimum of 57 fps (on surface of planet; worst case scenario).
Overall, I am very satisfied with performance.
I haven't pushed the card too much so far, but I have made a small OC. Out of the box, the card boosted to 1950 mhz, but crept down to 1898 mhz after 30 minutes. The stock fan profile is pretty funny. The high 60C fan requirement means the GPU will be boosting at its best when the fan is off! Once, the fan turns on, it remains very quiet.
So far, the fan has not gone past 45% @ 68C. Inaudible for me.
I consider 1898 MHz to be the card's real out of the box boost score with the stock fan profile. I upped the core 100 MHz and memory 400 Mhz at stock voltage. Now the card's real base is 2.0 Ghz, and memory is 8.8 GHz.
I found the memory was "stable" past 9 GHz, but the memory scaling turned negative. I believe if I up vcore, I can definitely get better results. At 2 GHz core and 8.8 GHz memory with stock voltage, the stock fan profile remains intact. It still will not go past 68 Celcius @ 45% fan which is inaudible for me.
It feels like the card has plenty of headroom to go with its 126% power limit and up to +100 for core voltage. I will be giving the card a good overclock soon. I have a gigantic backlog of games I've been wanting do play at 4k60, so I may shut off MSI Afterburner for awhile and enjoy.
Coming from an R9 290 Tri-X, this card is just as impressive. While not as long, the 1070 is much taller, pushing my case to its limits. It fits quite snugly.
The R9 290 has been rather lackluster in 4k performance on many newer titles. This GTX 1070 fills in quite well. I was only getting 40fps on R6 siege @ 4k with the 290,
but I can maintain 60fps at medium settings with ultra textures on the 1070. This card should be able to do 4k @ low-medium settings on newer titles.
GTA V runs incredibly well, not even needing to turn down settings from very high/high to maintain 60 fps.
ARMA 2 @ 4k is a chore for any GPU. My R9 290 suffered from many frame drops from zooming in.
Now the 1070 has none of those. Rendering ARMA 2 at 8k on the 290 brought FPS down to single digits. The 1070 can do 8k at same settings and maintain over 30 fps!
I couldn't even get 60 fps @ 1080p ultra for Elite Dangerous on my R9 290.
Now my GTX 1070 can do ultra @ 4k with a minimum of 57 fps (on surface of planet; worst case scenario).
Overall, I am very satisfied with performance.
I haven't pushed the card too much so far, but I have made a small OC. Out of the box, the card boosted to 1950 mhz, but crept down to 1898 mhz after 30 minutes. The stock fan profile is pretty funny. The high 60C fan requirement means the GPU will be boosting at its best when the fan is off! Once, the fan turns on, it remains very quiet.
So far, the fan has not gone past 45% @ 68C. Inaudible for me.
I consider 1898 MHz to be the card's real out of the box boost score with the stock fan profile. I upped the core 100 MHz and memory 400 Mhz at stock voltage. Now the card's real base is 2.0 Ghz, and memory is 8.8 GHz.
I found the memory was "stable" past 9 GHz, but the memory scaling turned negative. I believe if I up vcore, I can definitely get better results. At 2 GHz core and 8.8 GHz memory with stock voltage, the stock fan profile remains intact. It still will not go past 68 Celcius @ 45% fan which is inaudible for me.
It feels like the card has plenty of headroom to go with its 126% power limit and up to +100 for core voltage. I will be giving the card a good overclock soon. I have a gigantic backlog of games I've been wanting do play at 4k60, so I may shut off MSI Afterburner for awhile and enjoy.