Full Specs For The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Are Out

[sam77]

Lets cut the ******** and refer to the "founders edition" as to what it really is, overpriced reference card.

Hey, somebody at NVIDIA got a nice juicy bonus to come up with that particular marketing ploy. Leave him/her alone!!!

 

[Purgatory]

GTX 1070 Official Specs - The NERF is REAL

 

[nashathedog]

Even if the 1070 effective VRAM limit is 6GB, if they perform close to a 980Ti, I'll get nearly twice my current performance using a pair of them.

The ram is 8 gb's, There's no gimping, 8 gb's means 8 gb's.

With the 970 it helped differentiate it from the 980 with this gen the X does that.

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Clickbait rubbish
He's making a big deal out of nothing.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Costs less to run than a 980Ti for similar performance?

Really? People see this as a reason to buy a GPU? Speaking in UK terms, what's the saving likely to be?

If you had the card full out gaming (it draws next to nothing when idle/surfing) for 4 hours every single night for a month, at a price of £0.17 per kW of electricity you would be looking at a saving of roughly £2.

So someone dropping £450 on a luxury item like this is supposed to be giving a toss about saving £2 a month!

 

[HazardO]

The ram is 8 gb's, There's no gimping, 8 gb's means 8 gb's.

With the 970 it helped differentiate it from the 980 with this gen the X does that.


Clickbait rubbish
He's making a big deal out of nothing.

Yeah the higher grade RAM does differentiate, but the RAM gimping on the 970 was an artifact of the architecture and what happened when some of the SMXs were disabled. The 970 had 4GB, it's just that access to the last .5GB was higher latency and lower bandwidth. It's not impossible we will see the same again with the 1070.

 

[nashathedog]

Yeah the higher grade RAM does differentiate, but the RAM gimping on the 970 was an artifact of the architecture and what happened when some of the SMXs were disabled. The 970 had 4GB, it's just that access to the last .5GB was higher latency and lower bandwidth. It's not impossible we will see the same again with the 1070.

I was under the impression it had been confirmed that it isn't gimped.

According to NVIDIA’s own website, GeForce GTX 1070 has 8GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 8000 MHz effective speed across 256-bit interface. It means that ‘officially’ the maximum bandwidth is 256 GB/s. In other words, GTX 1070 should not be affected by architectural ‘design flaws’ known from GTX 970.

http://videocardz.com/60163/nvidia-...-gtx-1070-specifications-and-first-benchmarks

 

[HazardO]

I was under the impression it had been confirmed that it isn't gimped.

I missed that then, where was it confirmed?

 

[nashathedog]

I missed that then, where was it confirmed?

I read it elsewhere yesterday or the day before and can't remember where, The above edit is on Videocardz today though.