Asus ROG GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Strix Gaming 8G in review

1 - Einführung und Übersicht 2 - Platine und Spannungsversorgung im Detail 3 - Gaming Performance: 2560 x 1440 Pixel (WQHD) 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperaturen, Taktraten, OC und Wärmebildanalyse 6 - Kühlerdetails und Geräuschentwicklung 7 - Zusammenfassung und Fazit

With the ROG GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Strix Gaming, Asus puts an interpretation of the GP104, which has been slimmed down into the GTX 1070 Ti, on the customer shelf, which actually does almost everything right and nothing wrong. Of course, this also expresses something in the price, but we can already spoil the fact that there is virtually nothing wrong with the card.

Of course, this card is also subject to the usual limitation that Nvidia has given to every manufacturer with the clock specifications. But at least the Asus-owned software offers the possibility of a de facto 1-click overclocking, which can be reflected in a significantly better overall performance with further manual increase.

Important preliminary remarks

Since the actual performance of all board partner cards of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ex works has to be very similar due to the fixed base and boost offset for all manufacturers, the real achieved results depend more on the actual achieved in practice. Boost cycle, and thus indirectly from the cooling and primarily also the quality of the respective chip.

Each test based on benchmark bars is therefore only a random snapshot of a single specimen. This is precisely why we have focused on the actual technical implementation of each model and have been able to document this very well with our equipment.

Within the necessary tolerance ranges, it is definitely NOT possible that the performance of a particular card could be preceded by all others. We have therefore no longer used a manufacturer's name for the benchmarks, because according to chip quality, any card from any manufacturer can tend to the lower or upper performance limit.

 

Unboxing, dimensions and connections

We will discuss the exact board and cooling design separately later. The most important features are first summarized in a table:

Exterior views

The radiator cover is made of the usual, almost black ABS material, where you follow the own design line of the other Strix cards. You're looking for colour accents in vain on the surface, but it also fits in the same way. Because there are also the RGB-lit areas for The Christmas tree lovers.

The card with its 1151 grams is a slightly heavier middleweight, but not yet a real bad boy. The height of 12.5 cm is average, but the installation depth of 4.5 cm is quite baroque, because you can easily block 2.5 slots.

The back of the board is covered by a one-piece, blackened aluminum backplate with an RGB backpanel, but it has no cooling function.

The top of the map bears an RGB backlit ROG lettering, the color play of which can also be controlled via the supplied software. We also find the 180° turned 8-pin external PCIe power supply connection at the end of the graphics card.

The end of the map shows, like its underside, that the slats are vertically aligned and thus no air flow towards the end of the map or Slot aperture goes. Almost half are pressed towards the motherboard, which is not really the evolutionary crown. However, one can now argue about what is counterproductive in the end, because multiple curved heatpipes for a horizontal design do not make the transport of waste heat exactly more efficient.

The slot aperture offers a total of five outputs, of which a maximum of four can be operated together (multi-monitor setup). In addition to the dual-link DVI-I (no analog signal looped through), there are two HDMI 2.0 outputs and two DisplayPort 1.4 ports on the back. The rest of the slot aperture is provided with some openings for the air outlet, which hardly fulfils a real function.

The exterior no longer offers more secrets.

Specifications

Since the ex-factory specifications must be the same for all GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, the following table applies equally to all cards:

Test system and measurement methods

The new test system and the methodology have already been described in great detail in the basic article "How We Test Graphics Cards" (English: "How We Test Graphics Cards") and therefore, for the sake of simplicity, we now only refer to this detailed Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. However, we have improved CPU and cooling once again in order to largely exclude possible CPU bottle necks for this fast card.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: