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 ...

For more than a year, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 had the undisputed dominance in the upper middle and upper classes. Although AMD began to annoy the two place deer with the Radeon RX Vega64 and 56 a few months ago, the limited availability and pricing ensured that AMD's solutions could not quite so cause the enthusiasm that the excessive marketing of the would have been appropriate (fan boys excluded).

Slowly but surely, both Vega cards are now getting closer to the prices THAT AMD promised at the launch, bearing in mind that both providers like to push one or the other price action in between. The lack of acceptable board partner cards with a Vega chip is also a circumstance that AMD should rather be less pleased with. However, we will, if necessary, report in more detail on these reasons in another article.

The Radeon RX Vega56 is usually faster than its main competitor, the GeForce GTX 1070. It is only understandable that one does not want to let this happen in the green camp. So you just put one on it and place the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in such a way that even possible overclocked board partner cards of the RX Vega56 will hardly stand a chance in terms of performance. For the player it will be a bit more expensive (again), but at least the availability is rather assured, because this card should not be Miner's favorite toy because of this extra price.

The Christmas business would thus be secured for Nvidia. Whether customers see it that way, of course, has yet to be seen. But at least with an intermediate model, something new has been brought. Of course, retailers are always happy about this.

In about half of our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti successfully lands ahead of the Radeon RX Vega56, in some both cards are (almost) equal. Destiny 2 in WQHD (2560×1440 pixels) brings AMD's only real win, and it's also "only" in the single-digit percentage range. But instead of annoying the Radeon RX Vega56 at least with a cheaper price, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti costs almost as much as the RX Vega56.

Admittedly, the GeForce has certain advantages in terms of power consumption (as long as you don't also overclock heavily), cooling and, of course, especially in manual overclockability. But an average performance slightly better ex works than an RX Vega56 at a similar price probably doesn't make customers fall into euphoric schnapps, as was the case with the launch of the GeForce 10 a year ago.

The real coup from the customer's point of view would have been to bring the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti closer to the 400-euro limit and then push the simplest GeForce GTX 1070 down a bit in price to close the current huge gap between the GeForce GTX 1070 and the GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. After all, the planned street price was 380 euros and below. Well, the miners… Supply and demand. We still know.

Another aspect of this launch and pricing, which we welcome, however, is Nvidia's decision to sell the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Founders Edition for more than geforce.com for $450, which AMD's pricing is now, to some extent, already slightly narrowed, but still gives the other provider enough air to breathe.

So we won't be hyperventilating because of the positioning of the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti's, but as a Vega counter, the card fits like a fist on the eye. And since Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is also rather bad as Mother Theresa, it fits somehow again at the end of the day. You have nothing to lose and you have nothing to give away dito.

Benefits	Disadvantages
Excellent 1440p performance Often faster than the Radeon RX Vega56 High overclockability Moderate power consumption Good and quieter cooling Availability at introductory price.	High EIA

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti thus lands exactly where you expect it to be. Nvidia has recognized the target, tinkered and – hit cleanly. The customer would certainly have been happy about a slightly more aggressive pricing, but as we know Nvidia, you just don't leave anything on the table. In WQHD you can expect a decent performance, but the big sensation has (of course) failed. Stop in the middle and not beside it.

SUMMARY of MSI GTX 1070 Ti Titanium 8G

This board partner card doesn't do anything wrong in the end, but pretty much everything is right. If you really want to give a tinder and still don't want to grill your ears, you can hyperventilate with a power target of 133% or 233 watts. Whoever installs the card as it is, will all wonder if the card really exists, because he is unlikely to hear it. And otherwise? Nothing we wouldn't have written about the GeForce GTX 1080 Gaming X.