Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti review: In between, above or next to it?

Anyone who thinks that Nvidia has already brought all feasible GPUs based on the Pascal architecture is of course hugely mistaken. Despite a fairly extensive selection of GeForce GTX 10 cards, the company is also the... In direct competition, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti must of course compete primarily with the Radeon RX Vega 56. In addition, we are also 100% sure that the players also want to know how the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is against the faster ...

In terms of general power consumption, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE is, as expected, exactly the point that Nvidia set with 100% Power Target and thus at the same level as the slightly larger GeForce GTX 1080 FE. On an overclocking of this card and the maximum possible increase of the power target to 120% (approx. 116 watts) we have deliberately dispensed with, however, as it hardly makes sense, because the card already runs into the thermal limit from the factory. For this we have the board partner card from MSI.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium behaves very similarly (boring) with the factory settings and is only just above the power target of 180 watts. The tiny transgression should surely be at the expense of the two fans and the slightly more elaborate circuit layout.

What is fully effective, however, is the increase of the power target to the maximum possible 133%. Here, at the maximum OC, 233 watts of the possible 239 watts are reached before the voltage becomes the limiting factor. Without pre-empting the relevant section: it didn't matter if you were travelling with 100% fan load and 2.1 GHz or standard curve and 2050 MHz.

However, the fans end up eating up the certain temperature advantage at full fan speed, including slightly lower leakage currents. More than 233 watts simply did not go

The absolute peak of 290 watts at maximum overclocking (217 watts in normal mode) is rather theoretical in nature, because a well-equipped secondary side of modern power supplies, thanks to the low-impedance capacitors, loosely cushions these short peaks or. can smooth out. However, it also shows that older power supplies should be checked again for their suitability for modern graphics cards.

Nvidia (and also MSI) have relieved the motherboard slot (PEG) to such an extent that a breakdown of the rails in terms of their load is no longer worthwhile in order to log a possible standard violation. Where there is hardly anything left, there is no need to discuss anything.