Hot Flat man: KFA2 / Galax GTX 1070 Katana in test

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...

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 can accept this for yourself, because you are looking for a really flat, but still quite fast graphics solution, then you can definitely find what you are looking for here.

After our small intervention, which everyone can do for themselves without any problems, this card is fully suitable for everyday use and has been proven to be no slower than a GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition. Due to the smaller radiator area and the smaller fan, it is of course also a little louder, but also a little cooler than Nvidia's reference design. This in turn leads to a significantly improved boost behavior, which even helped us to save a whopping 12-14 watts in the end – depending on the.

Of course, it's not very nice to have to make these changes yourself as a customer, but we are hopeful that Galax/KFA2 will be able to get the new BIOS settings through Nvidia's review. If the green giant locks itself in here, the hand-held operation will still remain. Schnappatmung at the 90°C upper limit must not and must not be, all those involved simply have to remind themselves.

Our judgment is rather mild in view of the other advantages, because we have found many details that make this card seem sympathetic. Of course, we can't award an award, at least not without new BIOS. But then it would probably be the extra-niche purchase recommendation award for ultra-thin graphic that not everyone has (or needs). As a special technical solution, however, the card is the first (and also the only) choice and therefore (currently) no alternative.

Conclusion

It's definitely not for Kevin Normalgamer, who is looking for a brisk, quiet, overclocking and bling-bling-covered sign-card. But there are also exceptional situations where you as a thicker no longer fit into the overcrowded bus, even if you may pull your belly in. But then the hour of the really thin beats, which still fit in even if normal or overweight people have to wait for the next one. As long as there is enough air to breathe, the thing is scribbled.

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