Nvidia Confirms GTX 1070 Specs -1920 CUDA Cores & 1.6Ghz Boost Clock At 150W

Nvidia has finally confirmed the specs for its highly anticipated $379 GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card. The more wallet friendly younger sibling of the GTX 1080. The carte will feature the same GP104 GPU that powers the flagship GTX 1080, all exist information technology with a few bibs and bobs disabled.

The graphics card will also feature 1920 CUDA cores, a slightly lower boost clock of one.6Ghz and a more lean TDP of 150W. Near importantly Nvidia maintains that the GTX 1070 volition yet be faster than the company'due south previous heavy hitters, the GTX Titan 10 and GTX 980 Ti. The GTX 1070 Founder's Edition - reference design - will launch on June ten for $449. Custom cooled and factory overclocked GTX 1070 from Nvidia's partners volition launch soon afterwards for $379.

[UPDATE / 2022-05-18 11:01:34 AM]
Nvidia has published the specifications for the GTX 1070 on the GeForce website alongside preliminary benchmarks.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 - Most Of The 1080'south Operation At Nigh One-half The Price

If you're a PC gamer or a hardware enthusiast that'due south been paying close attention to the GPU market for the past couple of years then the GTX 1070 shouldn't surprise you at all. The cutting dorsum versions of any graphics bit are nearly always the improve buy. They deliver a huge chunk of the performance of their higher-finish counterparts at a fraction of the price.

We've seen this happen with every graphics generation that both Nvidia and AMD have introduced for years. We've seen it happen with Nvidia'south GTX 980 Ti & Titan 10, with the 970 & 980, with the 780 Ti and Titan, with the GTX 670 and the 680. And again the exact same tendency on AMD's side. The R9 390 offered ninety% of the performance delivered by the 390X for a fraction of the cost. We've seen it with the 290 and 290X, 7950 and 7970 and the trend goes dorsum more than a decade. In every ane of those examples the cut back version of the very same chip delivers well-nigh of its counterpart's performance at a much lower price point.

This is why in any given generation of graphics cards, gamers have ever overwhelmingly chosen to to go with the second fastest graphics carte in thelineup. It's near certainly always the smarter decision. Yous just become a lot more than for your money. The GTX 1070 is definitely not an exception. If you're a gamer that'southward looking to upgrade to a new college resolution monitor or but want more operation for whatsoever number of good reasons then the GTX 1070 will be the Pascal card you'll want to go.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Minus v SMs Is Nevertheless A LOT of Horsepower

Within Nvidia's full 7.2 billion 314mm² GP104 GPU that powers the GTX 1080 there's a total of 2560 CUDA cores, grouped into xx Streaming Multiprocessors arranged into 4 Graphics Processing Clusters. Each SM houses 128 CUDA cores. The 1070 having 1920 CUDA cores means we're looking at five SMs fewer. At present, inside every SM there are 8 Texture Mapping Units.
Inside every GPC there are five SMs and a total of xvi Render Output Units or ROPs for brusk. Cutting 5 SMs means the GTX 1070 ends up with 120 TMUs as opposed to the GTX 1080's 160. If an unabridged GPC is disabled to make a GTX 1070 then it will also cease upwards with 48 ROPs as opposed to the GTX 1080's 64. The GTX 1070 will notwithstanding feature 8GB of memory. Although it'due south 8Gbps GDDR5 as opposed to 10Gbps GDDR5X.

Nvidia GTX 1080 GP104 Block Nvidia GTX 1080 - GP104 Block DIagram

Despite the fewer CUDA cores, TMUs and ROPs, Nvidia is promising GTX Titan X & 980 Ti topping performance. Which isn't entirely too surprising. For example the GTX 980 had 23% more CUDA cores and a higher clock speed, but it ended up roughly 15% faster. Nosotros see this with all full vs cut dorsum GPUs.

This is because not all resources within the chip are disabled proportionally to the number of CUDA cores that are lasered off. Other on-chip engines are always left untouched. In this case the Raster engines are such an example.What this ways is that while nosotros end upwardly with fewer CUDA cores, these CUDA cores accept admission to proportionally more resources which in turn means we finish upward with more performance per CUDA core.

Official Geforce GTX 1080 and Geforce GTX 1070 Specifications

WCCFTech	Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080	Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal
Transistors	vii.2 Billion	7.2 Billion
CUDA Cores	2560	1920
Core Clock	1607 Mhz	TBA
Boost Clock	1733 Mhz	1683 Mhz
Memory Type	G5X (GDDR5X)	GDDR5
Memory Speed	10 Gbps	viii Gbps
Memory Configuration	8GB	8GB
Passenger vehicle Width	256-flake	256-chip
Memory Bandwidth	320 GB/s	256 GB/s
Multi Projection	Yes	Yep
HB SLI Bridge Support	Yes	Yes
Nvidia GPU Boost	3.0	3.0
DirectX 12 Characteristic Level	12_1	12_1
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Vulkan API	Yes	Yes
Maximum Digital Resolution	7680x4320@60Hz	7680x4320@60Hz
Display Connectors	DP i.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI	DP ane.42, HDMI 2.0b, DL-DVI
HDCP	2.ii	2.2
Power Draw	180W	150W
Power Connector	Single viii-Pin	Single 8-Pivot
Maximum Operating Temp	94 C	94 C
Partner Price (MSRP)	$599	$379
Iron Price (MSRP)	$699	$449

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Comes With All Of The GTX 1080's Goodies

One of the new exciting features that Nvidia is debuting with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 is GPU Boost 3.0. The feature builds on GPU Boost two.0 but is cleverer and more granular. The frequency curve is now dynamic and follows per voltage points equally opposed to a fixed margin. The result is college clock speeds and meliorate voltage utilization which translates to superior functioning per watt. And what it means is that while the GTX 1080'southward heave clock is rated at around 1.7Ghz the card will on average boost to virtually 1.9Ghz. And the GTX 1070 will exist no different, despite its lower boost clock of 1.6Ghz we should see a similar 200mhz uplift in average clocks while gaming.

Continuing on the feature front there'south one more mighty exciting update to the capablity of GeForce graphics cards that many gamers and particularly game streamers will absolutely love. The GTX 1080 and 1070 can bulldoze resolutions of up to 7860x4320 at 60Hz and 8K decode at 30Hz. That's 8K folks! The cards are also capable of upwards to 4K 60Hz encode and 4K 120Hz decode.

The cards also finally, a first for any GeForce products, back up 10-bit per color channel. Something that the Radeon counterparts had for years. So if yous have a color rich 10-flake per channel monitor you'll finally be able to enjoy it on GeForce. Blacks will be absolutely black, reds greens and blues incredibly more accurate. This includes support for upcoming High Dynamic Range monitors likewise.

Improved Pre-emption & Dynamic Load Balancing For Better Async Compute Functioning

Pascal features two new key improvements over Maxwell. Dynamic load balancing and improved pre-emption. Both of which do a great chore to help heave Pascal's async compute functioning compared Maxwell. They allow fourth dimension critical workloads to be inserted more quickly into the pipeline and improve utilization by layering PhysX and post-processing workloads over gaps in the pipeline.

Still, principally Pascal still tin't execute async code concurrently without pre-emption. This is quite different from AMD's GCN architecture which has Asynchronous Compute Engines and hardware schedulers that enable the execution of multiple kernels concurrently without pre-emption or context switching.

Although what really matters at the end of the day is performance. Testing is well underway by some of the industry's nigh respectable publications to make up one's mind whether Pascal's dynamic load balancing and speedier pre-emption can do but plenty to close the gap with AMD'southward ACEs in DirectX 12 Async Compute functioning. We'll offer an in-depth write-up to detail Pascal's Async Compute advances very soon.

Simultaneous Multi-Projection

Simultaneous Multi-Projection is a VR specific feature that improves operation by eliminating the demand to render what the user tin't see and simply spend energy on what the user can actually see. The Oculus Rift outputs a total of 4.2 megapixels not all of which are actually useful to the user, nor do all of them course part of the visible scene. SMP tin eliminate up 1.4 megapixels, rendering but 2.8 megapixels in total, significantly improving operation.

MP too cuts Geometry render times by one-half. SMP is non a Pascal specific characteristic as it'south done more than in software, but co-ordinate to Nvidia a new sub-segment inside the PolyMorph 4.0 engine has been built specifically to improve Pascal'due south SMP adequacy.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Founder's Edition is coming out on June 10. Expect reviews and benchmarks to surface before so. AMD is also expected to launch its competing Radeon 400 serial Polaris graphics cards on June 1st. So concur on to your hats folks, this next gen GPU ride is only just starting.