NVIDIA GTX 1070 Hands-on experience

The performance of Nvidia's new flagship graphics GeForce GTX 1080 can be described by Super monsters, but the price of up to 599 dollars (about 4000 yuan) is not easy to accept even for professional gamers. Nvidia seems to have taken this into account and has also launched the GTX 1070 series midrange video card. GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 have the same structure, performance is comparable, and the price is reduced to 379 U.S. dollars (about 2535 yuan) reasonable level. This degraded version of the graphics card although the configuration has been reduced, but it can easily handle any of the current market game, and in a year or two will not be obsolete. As a midrange graphics card GTX 1070 is definitely a product that can be shot.

Because of the early production of Nvidia Limited, GTX 1070 after the basic difficult to grab, I took a long time to GTX 1070 to get the hand, through the use of time, I carried out a serious evaluation, no doubt this video card is definitely an attractive graphics card, Nvidia also admits that this generation of graphics will be the product that the vast majority of consumers are keen to buy. To improve this lineup, Nvidia last week also released the GTX 1060 display chip, its configuration is lower than GTX 1070, but the price also dropped to 249 U.S. dollars (about 1665 yuan), but also smooth running most of the big games on the market.

GTX 1070 is the second NVIDIA graphics card with 16 nm Pascal architecture. It uses 8GB GDDR5 video memory, the clock frequency works between 1.5ghz-1.7ghz. Nvidia says the graphics card has 6.5 trillion floating-point operations, with a lower floating-point capability than the GTX 1080 graphics Card 9 trillion times. In the evaluation we used a slightly higher price of the first version of the graphics card, worth 449 U.S. dollars (about 3000 yuan), the graphics card using the same as the GTX 1080 video graphics like the high-end metal radiator. It has 3 DisplayPort interfaces, an HDMI interface and a DVI interface, and is powered by a 8-pin interface.

By running the split test, this GTX 1070 video card, as I expected, features a 4GHz core i7-4790k processor in the performance of the Radeon RX480 8GB (price 240 USD, approx. 1605 yuan) and GTX 1080 video card. 16GB DDR3 2400Mz memory, 512GB crucial (Invista) MX100 SSD and ASUS Z97-A Motherboard. The test results show that the performance of Radeon R9 Fury X is still strong, a flagship video card released by AMD last year, but this time I did not evaluate GTX 970 and 980 TI graphics.

In the 4K resolution test, GTX 1070 was equal to R9 Fury X, but was significantly below GTX 1080, and the number of frames per second dropped by 13 in the game "killer". However, even if the number of frames dropped, also more than 30 frames per second, the game process does not feel obvious cotton. The effect of the "destroyer" is very good, with frames reaching 48-55 frames per second, which is a relatively high level in all the cards that can run the game.

In 60 frames per second 4K test, I set the resolution to 1440P (2560x1440), which is an ideal game resolution, this effect is significantly higher than the 1080P resolution, and the game refresh rate even when set to high quality is easy to reach a higher level, this GTX The 1070 graphics card is set to high quality and always stay at 60 frames, this effect on the 4K display screen is still good.

Of course, if the resolution is set to 1080P, it will get a higher number of frames per second, but this is not worth showing off, because if you buy the latest graphics card, 1440P will be the most test of the basic resolution.

Given that the cheaper RX 480 can be compatible with VR games, GTX 1070 is a cinch for the current VR game. The actual test didn't disappoint me, in "dogfighting in Eve" VR game test, the game is very fluent, without any cotton, in the use of Oculus virtual reality helmet running Farlands explore the outer space environment can fully experience the feeling of immersive, in fact, When running various VR games outside, there is little difference between using GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 graphics cards.

After the release of the GTX 1070 graphics card, the outside world recognized that it is the ideal choice to run computer games, then we saw the price of 200 U.S. dollars (about 1338 yuan) AMD RX 480 official debut, of course, nvidia company will not show weakness, the launch price of 249 U.S. dollars ( About 1665 Yuan GTX 1060来 to deal with low price competition. So, will the appearance of GTX 1060 affect the sales of GTX 1070? According to the current situation, GTX 1070 is more worth buying than RX 480 and GTX 1060, and after a year or so you can buy another GTX The 1070 video card makes up the SLI multiple graphics Exchange system, at the same time, it can also obtain free video card performance improvement by overclocking and other ways.

379 dollars (about 2535 yuan) to buy a game graphics card may not be cost-effective, but compared with 599 U.S. dollars (about 4000 yuan) than the graphics card, this GTX 1070 price is more acceptable to the majority of gamers, especially in the current competitive graphics market, The need to balance performance and price factors, GTX 1070 is undoubtedly the current value of a choice.