Similar to the current market of desktop CPUs, the graphics card GPU is also showing a unique phenomenon. NVIDIA has the strongest performance in the field of high-end desktop display. Other manufacturers (who said that you all know) have even given up In the field, we mainly attack the mid-to-low-end products to compete for the wrong position, so I don't need to say much about NVIDIA's brand introduction.
One of the biggest drawbacks is the “toothpaste†phenomenon of product updates and performance improvements. So now that CPUs and GPUs are new, most of them are hard to evoke consumers' desire to purchase because their performance is not significantly improved compared to the previous generation or even the first two generations of products.
NVIDIA recently introduced a new GPU architecture codenamed “Pascal†and the first GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card that it launched. Since its release, it has attracted consumers’ attention. “The cost-effectiveness, the flagship of the predecessors’ predecessors†There are endless comments. This is really an exciting time for us to “squeeze toothpaste†today. However, if you think about it in 2016, you can define it as "VR year," and various types of VR products will be on the market. The desktop monitor is also moving from traditional 1080P resolution to 2K or even 4K. The original products of major manufacturers including NVIDIA are Performance has shown a state of exhaustion, so stride forward, preemptive, and seize the opportunity in the high-end market has become a matter of reason. This also made it possible for these DIY enthusiasts to finally feel the thrill of improved performance after years of boring.
I am very happy to be eligible for the participation in this event, but it also gives me a difficult problem. When I got the product to measure, all kinds of online evaluations were out of the box. Lost. Therefore, only the ability to truly share their own experience for your reference.
Specifications
NVIDIA graphics products use the number to divide the performance level, which can be roughly regarded as the following categories:
GeForce GTX 1070 can be seen from the number of the latest "10" series of high-end cost-effective products, it has a new Pascal architecture, the new architecture has a leap in performance and efficiency, the most critical change is the process, from 28nm has become the current 16nm, so that Nvidia can accommodate more transistors per unit area to improve performance, but the overall power consumption and heat will not be significantly increased.
The GeForce GTX 1070 owns 1920 CUDA, so it can be thought of as being shielded by GTX 1080 with a quarter of CUDA. The 6.5 TFlops single-precision floating point computing capability is still higher than the previous generation flagship GTX 980Ti, so the theoretical game performance will also be stronger than the GTX980TI. The power requirement is the same as that of GTX1080. Only a single 8PIN is enough to satisfy 150W TDP. The number of ROPs is 64 and the number of TMUs is 160. It is also consistent with GTX1080 and is quite conscience. On the scale, the theoretical performance will be between 75% and 80% of GTX1080. The 8000MHz of 8GB DDR5 is obviously more capable than the previous generation of 4GB 7010MHz in the face of high-resolution games, and its actual performance, please see the following evaluation
Product analysis
Physical out of the box
According to my personal conjecture, this surveying event was organized by SMZDM and Nvidia. Therefore, the graphics cards are all the public version of the brand graphics cards. I received this product from Inno3D. .
Public version of the graphics card, generally even the packaging for the public version, practical.
Out of the box family portrait, Yingzhong's accessories are somewhat strange, SLI bridge, 8Pin to D-type power extension cable, such as the previous standard accessories for NV graphics are not common. But comes with a mouse pad
However, the real gold-containing attachment is a small piece of paper printed with the serial number of the 3DMark Advanced Edition, which also saved a lot of things for my subsequent testing. What the manufacturers think is also very thoughtful, and the users who buy this level of graphics cards need to run a few points.
The appearance of this card I think you valued your friend through multiple channels
Continuing the tradition of the past years, the most prominent appearance feature of the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 public edition is the public version of the cooling system that netizens call "Titanium."
Although the actual performance of the public version of the radiator is not correct, the heavy metal material, the angular design, and the unique color scheme are still the hearts of many NV fans. The so-called belief is just right.
The best way to lighten faith is to make it glow, so the "faith light" is born
The display output interface 1 HDMI+1DVI+3DisplayPort interface is more suitable for users who need to connect multiple monitors.
NV high-end public version of the graphics card on the back of the PCB is also wrapped with a metal cover for dust, heat and daily protection has played a very good effect.
Positive and negative graphics
Detail work
In order to let you value your friends more comprehensive understanding of the product, I decided to dismantle it first.
Friendly reminder, this graphics card disassembly is not easy, the assembly uses a lot of screws, out of the more conventional Hexagon and Phillips screws, there are 14 below the hexagonal nuts need to use the sleeve to remove under.
With so many screws, disassembly and assembly are very terrible things. If you accidentally lose a few, you'll be OK or not to play.
After the dismantling is completed, the parts will be in the family portrait. The tools in the lower right corner are required for dismantling. In fact, I haven't dismantled the fan assembly, but I'm afraid that the demolition will not go back and I'm depressed. .
First of all, let's take a look at the “Titanium†cooling system that is full of beliefs. Nvidia's workmanship can be said to be a down payment. All the silver parts of the radiator are cut out from the aluminum block. The thickness is about 2mm, and the texture is excellent. . This should be the most fundamental source of the so-called "NV original belief".
Put aside appearances and beliefs, return to reality to talk about the actual cooling function, GPU core heat dissipation rely on heat sinks, while memory, power supply chips and other components with smaller heat transfer through the soft silicone gasket to the heat sink On the metal shell.
The supplied turbofan suction airflow blows onto the heat sink and the housing, expelling the heat through the openwork grid of the PCI baffle.
This kind of heat dissipation design has a good effect theoretically. The heat generated by the graphics card is directly discharged outside the chassis, which can reduce the heat accumulation inside the chassis. The chassis with vertical air cooling system will be more excellent. Performance.
Due to the shape and size of the heatsink, the inner heatsink can only be said to be quite satisfactory. The design of the copper bottom heatsink and the fins is somewhat thinner than the non-public version of the design. However, whether or not the video card can meet the heat dissipation requirements, I will verify it later in the test.
The positive and negative aspects of the graphics card PCB are as follows. The main components of the power supply and video memory are concentrated on the front
The overall PCB layout is clear and the spacing between components is sparse. In the future, there should be a shortened version of the non-public version of the product for a small chassis.
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070's GPU core GP104-200, A1 version is the first official version of the product shipped. 
The GDDR5 particles from Samsung, numbered K4G80325FB-HC25, with a single capacity of 8Gb (1GB); frequency 8GHz; a total of eight, constitute a memory structure with a total capacity of 8GB and a 256-bit width.
The GPU core and the power supply portion of the video memory are very dazzling in many empty soldering positions.
The GTX1070 public version of the PCB, codenamed PG411, has little difference with the PG413 version of the GTX1080 public version of the PCB. However, because the TDP has been reduced from 180W to 150W, the corresponding power supply has been cut, reducing the 5+1 phase to 4+. One phase, and some filter circuits have also been streamlined.
The history of Nvidia's original public version of the graphics card reduction power supply design has been a long time. The public version of the PCB is only designed to ensure the stable operation of the default frequency. There is not much reserved margin for over-clock and other out-of-range requirements. This is the pursuit of workmanship. The reason why the use of materials and extreme performance of NV fans concentrate on Tucao is also one of the reasons why the public version of the original card is called "faith card."
The Geforce GTX 1070's power consumption is greatly reduced by only 150W due to the improvement of the GPU core architecture and process technology, so only one 8PIN auxiliary power supply interface is sufficient to meet the demand.
Power supply capacitor
The PCB provides two sets of power interfaces. The upper white 2PIN is a luminous LOGO power supply called “faith lightâ€, and the lower 4PIN is a cooling fan power interface, supporting PWM automatic speed control function.
SLI bridge interface
Graphics video output interface part, DVI interface uses a metal shield
From the above dismantling, it can be seen that the appearance design of the public version of the Geforce GTX 1070 graphics continues the design style of the high-end public version of Nvidia. The visual effects are excellent. The heat and power supply are reduced. The default frequency is stable and stable, but it is natural. There is not much room for overclocking, so if you have more requirements for the performance of many non-public version of the friend may be more appropriate.
Machine installation
Geforce GTX 1070 public size is as follows:
Similar to the previous generation GTX970, slightly shorter than the non-public version of the GTX970.
There is no problem with the standard ATX chassis space, and the 8PIN power supply interface is designed to be easier to manage on the side.
Although I was demolished in the past, but fortunately God took care of it, I did not appear to be unable to load up. I turned on the machine once, Amitabha
A close-up of NV belief lights representing high-end atmosphere
Complete diagram of the whole machine, please ignore messy traces. If you do not get custom lines, it is really troublesome.
However, for users who use a small chassis, the size of the GeForce GTX 1070 is somewhat large.
For users who want to use high-performance graphics cards with their own "small cannons", they still have to wait for the non-public version of the shortened version.
Performance Testing
testing platform
As one of the components of the complete computer system, the stable operation and performance guarantee of the graphics card need the cooperation of other components, so a platform with stable stability and relatively balanced performance in all aspects is the basis of this test. The following is the hardware platform configuration information I used for this test.
For this test, the original plan for an overall hardware upgrade, but due to the time and energy and budget constraints, did not finally be implemented. Due to the performance churn and the impact of "XXX does not work hard", the upgrading of PC hardware and its performance are not obvious. Although the current system used is outdated, it can still be used to meet the performance specifications of most game accessories.
And presumably this test will surely have high-end value-friends adopt a new generation of hardware platform with stronger performance. It doesn't make much sense to be stereotyped. And my brothers who are planning to fight on the old platform for a few years, such as me, are surely not in the minority, so I hope to give some references to those who have almost the same performance.
It is worth mentioning that due to the excellent power control of the new core architecture, the power requirements are also lower than the previous generation of graphics cards. With the "power supply selection guide" provided with the graphics card, it is clearly stated that the Geforce GTX 1070/1080 only needs to be rated at 500 W. Power supply support.
So my existing power supply is sufficient enough and there is no need to upgrade. For the vast majority of users, the existing power supply should be sufficient to support this demand, but also makes the upgrade easier to resolve.
Test the scene, three screens surrounded me, the wife once thought I began to learn stocks, and even asked when I can send her a bag
testing software
Due to DirectX 12 and some game requirements for the system, 64-bit Windows 10 became the only choice. Drivers and test software are updated to the current official version.
In terms of game selection, two major models, "Tom Clancy: Blockade of the whole territory" and "Tomb Raider: Rising," are the two main players, mainly representing the DirectX 11 and DirectX 12 two-generation graphics acceleration APIs. At the same time combined with the current popular shooting action online games "watch pioneer" for game performance testing.
Test Methods
The output display of the graphics card uses the display and cable that support Disport 1.2 to meet the high-resolution and large-bandwidth requirements. The resolution is 2560x1400@60H and 3840x2160@60Hz. Two types of mid-high-order are more commonly used, while the traditional 1080P is omitted due to the coverage of 2K resolution.
The test site uses air-conditioning to control the temperature to around 25°C. Although it is now in midsummer, I don't want to go too hard.
After all, if you follow the normal ambient temperature of about 30°C, you may not be able to do anything when the video card is not working.
For the game performance tests, in addition to the game's own performance testing software, they actually run for more than 60 minutes, and use GPU-Z and Fraps to collect real-time graphics performance data. In the later period, sampling and data analysis are performed at intervals of one minute to form a performance curve and a total value for reference.
Graphics information
The new GPU-Z software provides support for Pascal, and most of the parameter information can be displayed normally. The "Body Mass Index" ASIC that only the overclockers are concerned about is not yet available. 
Performance Testing
Although I always think that the running score can not fully represent the actual performance, but it is indeed the most simple and most intuitive way to reflect the graphics performance. The 3D Mark series of testing software is accompanied by the prosperity and decline of generations of graphics cards. It has a long history and has already become the benchmark for video card testing. Just with the card comes with the authorization serial number, also let me save a lot of trouble.
After 3D Mark has undergone historical upgrades, it has formed a very complete evaluation system. Multiple test items can perform detailed tests on the graphics card from different angles.
Time Spy test
Time Spy testing was jointly developed by Futuremark and AMD, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA and many other benchmark development projects (BDP) partners. From scratch, it is completely geared towards DX12. The core engine is also based entirely on DX12 and can completely unlock the potential of the new API. This includes reducing processor load, making efficient use of GPU hardware, asynchronous computing, mixing multiple graphics cards, multi-threading, and more.
The Time Spy test includes a graphical test, a CPU processor test, a demonstration DEMO, a rendering resolution of 2560×1440, and an operating system limited to Windows 10.
Test results are as follows:
Because it is a pure DX12 test, vertical comparison of various types of graphics cards currently does not make much sense (the overall performance of the A home is not to force, and N home GTX980 and the following rumors for DX12 support is incomplete), so only do a lateral comparison of the various brands GTX 1070. Limited by the conservative version of the core and memory operating frequency of the public version, the overall score online ranked in the midstream position in many GTX1070 graphics cards on the same platform, but the ranking is an integer
Fire Strike test
Fire Strike is a traditional test project of 3D Marks in recent years. It is subdivided into standard, extreme, and Ultra 3 levels. The specific test results are as follows: 
Fire Strike test is for the performance of the whole machine, and the score is obtained by the combination of the graphics card score and the physical score. The physical score is mainly determined by the CPU computing performance, so different grades of CPU have a greater impact on the performance. In order to eliminate the interference of the CPU, I only take the score of the graphics card here, and at the same time, combine the scores of various graphics cards collected by the hardware evaluation websites to draw the following performance comparison chart.
It can be seen that Nvidia's Pascal family is the best player, and the GTX 1080 is now the most well-deserved boss, and after a long time it can only be surpassed by its own new TITAN X. And as the flagship of the GTX 1070 followed closely, the results significantly exceeded the previous generation flagship. In particular, non-public version of the core and video memory to further enhance the performance of the release. As the sub-flagship GTX970 score of the previous generation has reached the final position, NV claims that the new architecture core efficiency is increased by 50% is not just empty talk
Power consumption
The video card power consumption test was performed using a baking machine. After the GPU core was fully loaded with the FurMark software for 15 minutes, the total power consumption of the power meter was about 205 W when the temperature display was stable and flat.
Comparing the standby power consumption of about 47W in the no-load state, it can be concluded that the increase is about 150W, which is basically the same as the official rated power consumption. Of course, such a test can only be considered roughly, and there is still a great distance from the accuracy.
fever
The heat of the graphics card is mainly generated by the GPU core, which is closely related to the working frequency of the GPU. Before the GPU-Z information display Geforce GTX 1070's core default operating frequency is 1506MHz, up to 1683MHz under the Boost3.0 role. The higher frequency means more heat, so the graphics card itself has a certain protection mechanism. When the temperature reaches a certain threshold, it will be forced to reduce the frequency to protect the core from overheating. This is also what people often say. Temperature wall effect.
Test is still using Furmark to make the card fully loaded
After about 17 minutes of full-load roasting, the core temperature of the Geforce GTX 1070 eventually settled around 82°C, and the frequency was stable at around 1699 MHz.
According to the comparison between the GPU core and the temperature change curve in the above figure, it can be seen that when the temperature is low at the initial stage, the GPU core frequency is greatly increased up to 1800 MHz under the Boost3.0 effect, but the core frequency increases with the increase of temperature. Reduce the synchronization, at this time you can see the "temperature wall" effect. So through this set of data analysis we can see that the so-called 1683MHz Boost frequency is only a theoretical average, as long as there is room for improvement in heat dissipation. So it's not just a simple joke to open the air conditioner to improve the game performance.
noise
Video card noise I would like to split in two, the first is fan noise.
The public version of the Geforce GTX 1070 fan supports PWM automatic speed control function, but does not support low-load automatic stop, so the desktop still maintains about 1000 speed, but at this time the fan noise can be ignored, 1 meter away from the chassis Haven't heard any sound completely.
Even if you open the side panel close to the video card, there is only a very weak wind
In the case of a high load with a full core load, the fan speed will continue to increase according to the change in power, eventually stabilizing at about 2200 rpm. This will produce more pronounced wind noise, but it is still within a fully affordable range. And since the video card is often full-loaded and the game is always played, this level of wind is often ignored, so I am very satisfied with the fan noise.
For ordinary fan noise, even more annoying is "howling"
The "howling" problem of mid-to-high-end graphics cards has plagued DIY players for many years, unlike the relatively low and steady sound of fans. The sharp and fluctuating currents of the so-called "howling" are particularly "refreshing." The source of this kind of noise is also not very well determined. Graphics cards, motherboards, and power supplies are all possible. However, they are especially easy to appear after replacing high-performance graphics cards. Therefore, it is more accurate to define the current generated by the entire system as sound appropriate. The situation is not the same. It occurs at most when the graphics card is running at full capacity, but in some game cutscenes, the graphics card also generates when it is working at low loads and high frequencies.
The GeForce GTX 1070 is also immune to current noise. Listening at high loads while still listening to the sound of “zizzi†currents, but at least when I use this video card with the whole system, the current sound is still tolerable. In the range. The same platform that was previously purchased on the GTX 970 experienced a return from a whistle.
The feedback from the integrated online users has reduced the “howling†issues of NV’s new architecture, the GTX 1070 GTX 1080, compared to before.
Game testing
Blocked across the territory Tom Clancy's The Division
As the 3A masterpiece of Ubisoft's main promotion in early 2016, "Tom Clancy: Blockade of the whole territory" adopts the newly developed Snowdrop engine of Ubisoft. It has a unique effect and at the same time it has achieved more realistic physical damage. It is its biggest feature. .
"All the destructive effects in the game are not pre-arranged and then recorded. All items will respond according to the actual physical collision effect, and the surface cracking process of the object is completely performed by the instant calculation. For example, The glass and wood will be broken in a unique way like the material in the real world.This also means that you must choose the cover to consider its strength.The effect of the earth wall, the brick wall and the concrete wall is not the same. â€
Take a look at the system requirements announced by the official. The recommended configuration for fluent games is still quite challenging for the beginning of this year.
Because Ubisoft and Nvidia have maintained a high degree of cooperation in the “blockadeâ€, N-card players will have a certain advantage when playing the game (HBAO+ special effects). However, the overall performance of AMD Radeon graphics cards was slightly better until the arrival of the Nvidia Pascal series.
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Very high quality mode
The “Block-by-Entry†image quality settings are divided into three default settings: low, medium, high, and extremely high. Out of confidence in the performance of the GTX 1070, direct high-definition image quality mode is selected for testing. First use the game's own performance detection tool to test, the results are as follows:
As can be seen from the percentage of load, the game requires much more computational power than the CPU. (The last item is "Average GPU" is a brain error)
The actual operation is as follows:
FPS: On average, 56 and up to 60, and a minimum of 53. Although the memory usage is as high as 4GB or more, it is only 50% occupied by the 8GB bulk capacity of the graphics card. So you can be sure that the Geforce GTX 1070 can run smoothly with this file quality mode.
Full effect mode
In addition to the package-based picture quality mode, the game also allows fine-tuning of the special effects to achieve a more extreme picture quality performance. When I open all the special effects mode to the highest level, the hardware performance requirements also rose to the maximum.
At this point, using the game's own performance detection tool to test, the results have dropped significantly, but still within the scope of the game can be smoothly running
The actual operation is as follows:
Even though the average memory occupancy increased by 500MB, it still falls within the acceptable range. Even if the peak occupancy does not occur, the 8G memory capacity is basically sufficient for the resolution of.
FPS began to decline, although the average is still stable at 46, which is a smooth numerical value, but the minimum of 16 cases for a shooting-based game in the relatively complex melee scene is prone to Caton delay Fighter aircraft.
3840x2160@60Hz Performance Test
Very high quality mode
In the extremely high quality mode, when the resolution rises to@60Hz 4K specifications, the overall running effect of the game has decreased to some extent, but the FPS can be stabilized at about 30, and the memory occupancy does not exceed the standard 8GB capacity. If a user with a 4K monitor needs to run the game, the overall fluency is still guaranteed. If you slightly reduce the overall smoothness of some of the quality effects will be improved.
Full effect mode
This is the highest output standard that my equipment can achieve at present, and the final result is OK. Although the FPS has dropped to about 27, the overall fluctuations are fairly stable. Although the number of transient frames in a complex scene dropped to around 20, it is still difficult to avoid, but the overall situation is still barely normal. The memory occupancy is basically the same as the 2K resolution, and the explosion of video memory does not occur.
Tomb Raider: Rise of the Tomb Raider
This game is mainly used to show the effect of memory capacity on game performance.
"Tomb Raider: Rising" was developed by Crystal Dynamics and is the 15th part of the Tomb Raider series. It was officially released in December 2015. The Foundation engine used for the game screen provides near-film quality performance, especially for light and shadow performance. After the update in March of this year, Tomb Raider: Rise won support for the DirectX 12 rendering model.
The system requirements announced by the official website are as follows. The minimum configuration requirements are slightly lower than the “blockade of the entire territory†and the recommended configurations are basically the same.
Tomb Raider series game content is mainly puzzle solving, so it needs more brilliant and grand scenes to set off the background, which all need strong memory performance to support. In particular, "Tomb Raider: The Rise" is the ultimate demand for video memory. Players privately call it the "rise of memory."
25601440@60Hz Performance Test
Full effect anti-aliasing: FXAA
In this mode, with the powerful performance of the Geforce GTX 1070, FPS can be maintained at a very stable level around 50, and the game can run very smoothly. However, at this time, observing the occupancy of video memory is not as adequate as running the “blockade of the entire territory.†Instant occupancy even broke 8GB.
Full effect anti-aliasing: SSAA 4X
The Geforce GTX 1070 is also starting to fail after anti-aliasing using the more rigorous SSA 4X settings. An average FPS score of about 20 can be considered to be able to cope with this game, but the Caton phenomenon in complex scenes will occur frequently.
It is possible that the average occupancy of the video memory is lower than the FAXX mode due to the different scenes during the test, but the observation curve will find that the occupancy for a long time is close to the limit range of 8 GB.
3840x2160@60Hz Performance Test
Full effect anti-aliasing: FXAA
When the resolution was raised to the 4K standard of 38,402,160, the FPS of the game was maintained at around 40, which was significantly lower than the previous 2K resolution. However, it was still regarded as smooth running, and the occupancy of video memory was even more impressive.
Full effect anti-aliasing: SSAA 4X
This is currently the most limitable display output mode that regular players can use. When the SSAA 4X anti-aliasing mode is used in 4K resolution, the 8GB memory that the Geforce GTX 1070 is equipped with has also been exploded. The memory occupancy is maintained at 100 for a long time. The state of %, and the corresponding FPS began to drop sharply, the average of 15 frames/second can not be called smooth.
So it is no exaggeration for 8GB video memory to be standard for such games in high resolution output.
Watch pioneer
"Watching the Vanguard" is a first-person shooter game developed by Blizzard Entertainment, which was launched on May 24th, 2016. The hot degree will not need to be said anymore. You will understand PIGU in various positions, so GeForce GTX 1070 must also be a concern for many players.
As the online game "watch pioneer" for graphics card demand is very flexible, low-end nuclear display in low resolution, lower image quality requirements can also run smoothly, the mainstream of the GTX960 like dessert-level graphics can be higher resolution Under the effect of opening a certain effect more refreshingly, the performance of GeForce GTX 1070 is tested by the following test
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High quality rendering magnification: 150%
As the latest generation of performance-level graphics cards, the starting point of the test is my natural positioning@60Hz resolution full effect. In addition to conventional anti-aliasing, there is a setting called “Rendering Multiple†in the “watch pioneer†quality setting. A higher rendering magnification can bring more detailed character mapping effects.
As can be seen from the above figure, under the very high image quality 150% rendering multiple, the FPS remains fairly stable at 60, with only single-digit floating. At this time, the observation of the core operating frequency did not even reach the full load state, and the memory occupation was only about 1/4. So for this level of quality settings GeForce GTX 1070 performance can be described as more than enough, the only limit is the monitor refresh rate, presumably if you replace the 144Hz refresh rate of e-sports dedicated display, FPS will have greater improvement.
High quality rendering multiple: 200%
After increasing the rendering multiplier to 200%, FPS began to drop dramatically, eventually stabilizing at around 32. At this point the core operating frequency has reached full capacity, and the memory usage has also increased to about 4GB. This also confirms the consistent characteristics of Blizzard games: Easy and smooth entry, full effect to the limit will kill you
It can be seen that as long as the appropriate rendering magnification is reduced at 2K resolution, the game can be played very smoothly. After all, 150% of the mapping accuracy and 200% of the difference are in this type of competitive action game in which intense motion pictures frequently change. It's hard to notice. For normal game selection in terms of rendering multiplier, just select the automatic mode, the game can match the appropriate value according to the screen size, the actual match is about 122%.
3840x2160@60Hz
High quality rendering magnification: 150%
The 4K resolution requirements for graphics performance suddenly increase, 150% rendering multiples when the GPU computing power has been unable to hold 60FPS results. But fortunately, it's still about 50, and it's also a smooth game. At this time, although the GPU is not yet 100% full, it is no longer as easy as 2K resolution.
High quality rendering multiple: 200%
When the rendering multiplier is increased to 200% at 4K resolution, even the powerful GeForce GTX 1070 is no longer able to support it. The game screen has no fluency at all, and it's basically the same as watching a slide show. At this point the GPU core and memory have reached the limit of the load. For those friends who want to play games smoothly under this setting, I think at least GTX 1080 SLI will be sufficient.
SteamVR Performance Test
As mentioned earlier, the reason why NVIDIA can significantly increase GPU performance this time is, in large part, to capture the growing VR market.
I use Steam to provide a shallow test called the SteamVR Performance Test applet.
It can be seen that the GeForce GTX 1070 has basically reached the limit of the test score, and the performance curve is also a basic line, which is quite obvious compared with the previous generation GTX 970.
But for the actual testing of VR performance, I'm sorry to say here. Frankly, I have two major difficulties.
First of all, due to the limited space at home, I have not yet purchased a VR display device. Although there are channels that can be borrowed from devices such as HTC VIVE, the bigger problem is that VR is a personal perspective device. Even if it is actually tested, the feeling is limited to the individual senses. It is difficult to fully demonstrate the performance of a picture animation in addition to the text description. In addition, the evaluation time was not enough, and finally decided to give up the actual test. However, according to feedback from online users, the general level of VR applications GeForce GTX 1070 can basically do the job.
Evaluation summary
From the performance in the above evaluation, we can see that the most important task that NV gives the GeForce GTX 1070 is to be able to deal with the display output with high resolution, while satisfying a certain price/performance ratio. The actual results also show that this requirement can be basically met, and the performance of the new architecture core, in terms of performance, power consumption, and heat, is remarkable.
Here are some tips for purchasing the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card:
1. For 2K and below resolution output requirements, the performance of the GeForce GTX 1070 is sufficient for most scenarios, and for now I think it is the most cost-effective option.
2. GeForce GTX 1070 may also need to reduce some special effects settings to be perfect for users who want to run the game in 4K resolution. If the performance requirements are high or you have GeForce GTX 1080, you will hear that the new core TITAN X is also Listing, local tyrants come out of the box å‘—
3, for the selection of various types of GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card, my personal advice is still based on personal taste. The non-public version of each brand has a good thermal design, the core and memory frequency increase also brings better performance, and the power supply part of the complement also means greater overclocking space. However, the public version of the design is not entirely useless. If you do not need to overclock it, you can buy it. If you never owned a public version of the graphics card, you have to say it is a pity, but now the public version of the market has become increasingly difficult to buy.
NVIDIA's new 10 series graphics card can be said to be quite eye-catching performance, in the face of no competition in the field of high-end graphics cards, NVIDIA did not choose to "squeeze toothpaste", but to the performance of a substantial increase in this point showed full of sincerity With conscience. According to the tradition of this section, we must also sum up the advantages and disadvantages and make up for it. However, for now, if you are purchasing a graphics card, then on this planet, this performance and price range has almost no choice but the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070. Losing reference has no meaning for comments, so I can only say that if you need it, buy it, otherwise it is useless. Â
Finally, we thank the SMZDM and NVIDIA for organizing this event, and we also thank NVIDIA for bringing us this exciting product.
