Innocent White: KFA2/Galax GTX 1070 Ti Hall of Fame under review

What is white, slightly overweight and even really fast within the framework of their genes? No, we are not writing about a full Snow White on Speed, but the Galax GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Hall of Fame, which is held in Europe for trademark reasons. KFA2/Galax uses a modified GTX 1070 Hall of Fame board for the GTX 1070 Ti Hall of Fame, but with slightly improved assembly. This, in turn, is not a cost-down, but also takes into account objections from our previous reviews similar to... Important preliminary remark We had already mentioned it at the beginning that almost exclusively the resulting boost clock rates of each GTX 1070 Ti determine the final performance and thus the so-called GPU lottery and not the manufacturer and model.... Power consumption at different loads The power consumption in the Torture Loop is pretty much exactly on the point that Nvidia set as the Power Target with 180 watts. In the gaming loop, the power consumption of 174 watts is even below the... Overclocking The limits of this card are far higher than those of the competitors with similar Power Target, which is of course also due to the already mentioned good GPU quality. however, this alone is of little use if the tension is... Cooling system and backplate Of course, the generated waste heat is directly related to the recorded power, for which the cooling solution is responsible for optimum dissipation. This rather massive cooling relies on a large lamellar... Summary White card, white vest? Almost, because the manufacturer does not make any real mistakes except for the trimmed chip (for which he can't do anything). On the contrary, it is only by changing the voltage converters to eight ech...

Important preliminary remarks

We had already mentioned it at the beginning that almost exclusively the resulting boost clock rates of each GTX 1070 Ti determine the final performance and thus the so-called GPU lottery and not the manufacturer and model. At night all cats are grey and the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is no exception. We benchmarked our entire stock of partner cards, borrowed retail cards and the two GeForce GTX 1070 Ti FE and then added the "best" and "worst" cards to the charts as limits.

It would be unfair and not objective to have one model in the charts in front of another just because the GPU on the existing sample now happens to perform better than that on another model. This will certainly look different with further comparisons, especially since the tolerance range of 1-2 FPS certainly seems realistic. There is therefore no manufacturer in performance that could permanently outperform all other competitors.

Our test object, which is a real retail card, fits with the stable 1860 to 1911 MHz Boost (depending on the cooling performance of the housing) in the upper part of the cards. However, in this case we have had really extreme luck with the GPU lottery, as we will see later in the power consumption and the overclocking margin. This quality is therefore rather rare and therefore a real stroke of luck.

We also limit ourselves to the WQHD resolution with 2560 x 1440 pixels, because we can see the actual working field of the map here and can also largely exclude all CPU limitations. The maps tested so far are all between or on the respective boundary ranges for the upper and lower limits of the GeForce GTX 1070 contained in the benchmarks, so that one can assume that all individually purchased cards also fall within these ranges. all tolerances that occur.