ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1070 TI A8G
http://www.asus.com £500
This is the world’s most confusing graphics card. A seemingly nonsensical reaction to the
Vega 56, AMD’s only competitive gaming GPU right now (unless you’re into mining), the GTX
1070 Ti doesn’t make much sense. It’s a card that’s simultaneously amazing, yet annoying.The difference between a GTX 1060 6GB and 3GB
is 128 CUDA cores. The difference between a
GTX 1080 and a GTX 1070 Ti is 128 CUDA cores and
a drop down from GDDR5X to GDDR5. So why does
the 1070 Ti warrant a new designation when the
3GB 1060 doesn’t? Good question.
You can’t beat the GTX 1060 3GB for price to
performance. The fps difference between the two
is, on average, a meagre 5%. The 1070 Ti
follows the same trend. At 1440p, the
difference between the cards ranges from0-4 fps across our four test titles. That’s ridiculous
given the £80 difference in price.
What you’re getting with the GTX 1070 Ti is a
discounted 1080 under a new badge, with slightly
cheaper memory. On top of that Nvidia gets to pitch
it as a new product, and at the same time, it nibbles
at that last smidge of market share that AMD’s Vega
56 currently holds.
LITHOGRAPHY: 16NM FINFET / TRANSISTOR COUNT: 12 BILLION / CUDA
CORES: 2432 / CORE/BOOST CLOCK: 1607/1683 MHZ / MEMORY CAPACITY:
8GB GDDR5 / DISPLAY CONNECTORS: DISPLAYPORT 1.4, HDMI 2.0(B)GRAPHICS
CARD90 %
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1440P VALUE?
Expect average
framerates of around
70 in most titles, with 40
fps in some of the more
demanding games.2
ASUS DESIGN
Asus’s DCIII cooling
design is a fantastically
quiet solution for the
GTX 1070 Ti, and it looks
classy as hell.3
OVERCLOCKING
HEADROOM
With a bit of a push you
can easily get a 220 MHz
overclock on the core,
boosting it further.4
4K?
Although it’s
possible to achieve 4K
resolutions with some
AA tweaking, itdoesn’t
quite hit the mark yet.Hardware
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