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 ...

Clock rates and voltages

If we look at the clock rates at the Gaming Loop and compare the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium with Nvidia's Founders Edition, we first see that the Founders Edition boosts minimally higher – despite significantly higher temperatures. Is the MSI card worse or the chip on the Nvidia card so much better? A first counter-test with maps from Zotac, Gigabyte, Colorful and Gainward shows us that we must have been just unashamedly lucky (as so often in the past) with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE.

Otherwise, the cards behave as you might expect, because with increasing temperature, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE also drops from an initially very high 1911 MHz to alternating values just above and around 1.8 GHz, while the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium slightly below

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE – Clock Rate Gaming Loop

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium – Clock Rate Gaming Loop

The image continues during the Torture test, although it makes little or no difference with the MSI card whether you operate it openly or in a closed housing.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE – Clock Rate Torture Loop

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium – Clock Rate Torture Loop

The measured voltages then make it clear that the Founders Edition once again plays at the front of the GPU lot. A slightly higher voltage ensures that the Founders Edition achieves minimally higher clock rates. A rogue who thinks evil.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE – Voltage

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium – Voltage

Appendix 1 – Thermal images of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE

Since the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE is a Direct Heat Exhaust (DHE) card, we save the images from the open bench table, as we did with the clock. The deviations are too small to have any meaning. What you can see: Nvidia has a good grip on cooling. We will find out later with what noise level this is purchased.

Appendix 2 – Thermal images of the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium

The MSI card also does its job really well and is also almost inaudible. The tiny changes compared to our then tested MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X have certainly had an effect, because especially the hotspot with RAM is conjured away. However, this is also proportional to the GDDR5 memory instead of the GDDRX5 on the GeForce GTX 1080.

The same applies to the stress test, because the 95 degree maximum temperature for the memory is never reached. You can live with it comfortably.

Annex 3 – Thermal images of the cooling process

These pictures say a lot about the cold spots of the respective cooler. While the cooling of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE is rather large,' the MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Titanium's main focus is above the GPU socket. Since the VRM cooler is not connected to the main cooler, the performance is missing a little.