And no, it's not a flat joke that Galax / KFA2 presents to us here in the form of the GeForce GTX 1070 Katana. Speaking of Katana: This name is now almost a running gag, because you can find Katana or Shinken (not ham!), so d... The board at a glance
If you remove the cooler, we see a very short board with 17.3 cm, in which all voltage transformer ranges have been consistently changed to the left side, while the memory is top or bottom. below and to the right of the... The cooler in detail
The light metal radiator cover is held in a gun metallic look, sits above the actual radiator block and also covers the black plastic chamber of the protruding radial fan part on the front side. Since the slot panel is... Foreword to the benchmarks
The following benchmarks are based on the results of our roundup for the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 and, for better comparability, the correspondingly frozen image of our test... Overview of power consumption and voltages
We quickly remember the history with the 90°C passage in the closed housing, as well as the Throttling in the open structure and now look at the direct juxtaposition of the Leistun... Temperatures and clock rates
Now we close the circle again to what we had written on page 3 about the optimizations. Since power consumption and GPU temperatures were very similar to the gaming loop and the stress test (with this very... Speeds before and after the change
Now let's look at the fan speeds before and after our small, surgical intervention. Even if they should have been lower with the original BIOS, the fan speeds in the 90°C... Summary
Yes, physics is a serious science, not a stretchy field of activity of modern utopians. And so the same restrictions apply to single-slot cards as we have known for years. If you accept that for yourself...
Foreword to the benchmarks
The following benchmarks were deliberately based on the results of our roundup for the GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 and used the correspondingly frozen image of our test setup for these maps for better comparability. Since on Full HD many games already limit GPU-side, we have also omitted this part. In the end, it was all about who is faster – the GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition, which is permanently stuck in the temperature target, or our optimize GeForce GTX 1070 Katana from Galax, which is only trapped in the power limit.
In the end, the competition ended, albeit narrowly, in favour of our optimized map. The reasons are also understandable, because while the temperature target is permanently attached to Nvidia's card and thus also ensures consistently low boost clock rates, the somewhat more flexible Power Target is ideally suited, the boost at least partially already to speed up significantly. This is short, but repoducible, and also shows very nicely that efficiency can be quite sexy.
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