NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti Overclocking and Specification

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Ashley Allen from eTeknix posted a quick story yesterday that reports that the "GTX 1070 Ti Can't be Overclocked." This is what Ashley went on to say.

An industry insider told eTeknix that the GTX 1070 Ti can’t be overclocked. In addition, we’ve been informed that NVIDIA will not release any reference cards and all AIB partner cards will be locked to the same speeds. However, price and aesthetics are expected to differ across partner cards.
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Some of this is correct, and some of it is NOT correct.

First and foremost, Ashley is incorrect in saying that the 1070 Ti can't be overclocked. This is not true. Manual overclocking will be allowed by end users, but from what we can see, there is actually an "overclocking frequency cap." This however does not seem to be what we would call a "low" frequency. If you took a good GTX 1080 and overclocked it, and good GTX 1070 Ti and overclocked it, the GTX 1080 is still going to squeak out a win, but not by much. This is obviously being done to keep the GTX 1070 Ti from cannibalizing the GTX 1080 market. This GTX 1070 Ti should be able to easily handle Vega 64 as well, not that you can find any of those for sale at MSRP anyway.

That brings us to the second statement from eTeknix above. It is true at this time that AIBs will not be allowed to sell "pre-overclocked" GTX 1070 Ti cards like we so often see done. All cards from all AIBs, at this time, will be sold at "reference" clocks dictated by NVIDIA. This again is obviously to keep the 1070 Ti from cannibalizing 1080 market share much like we have seen in the past with other Ti models.

While all of this is going on, it seems that full GTX 1070 Ti specs have leaked at EXPReview, and thankfully we have a nice chart to share with you. Once you look at the specs we see that the 1070 Ti has 2432 Stream Processors, which is right on the heels of the 1080's 2560. Boost clocks are also only 50MHz apart. Memory is a tad slower, but the two cards look very much the same with the 1070 Ti to have a $429 MSRP.

Full Chart HERE.

So it looks like NVIDIA is willing to allow the 1070 Ti to cannibalize some of its remaining GTX 1080 enthusiast market in order to make sure AMD's Vega 64 Radeon is held even further at bay.
 
Considering that the 64 isn't really much of a champ over the 56, I'd say this is more about firmly placing the 1070 back above the 56. The 64 was always a loser, but the 56 had a bit of room to run and, if it ever actually were available at MSRP, would be a good choice over a 1070, unless you just *couldn't* put a 650W PSU in your PC. The 1070Ti addresses that issue and makes all flavors of Vega irrelevant again.
 
Looking forward to the reviews. Still out of my price range. Maybe some day....
 
So it begins. You guys are witness to the official start of 'The long cold winter' as the lack of competition in the video graphics card arena surrounds us.

In order to understand this further, we have to look at a few things and make a few considerations.

One, remember when Jen-Hsun Huang said that the Titan was reckless as well as “irresponsible amount of performance?”

Because the competition was unable to achieve a certain level of performance, nVidia I'm sure is now taking a second look at the product road-map and deciding on their next move.

Common sense dictates that when you're winning a race by miles and miles you don't have to keep the gas pedal all the way down. You can ease off and conserve. The logic in this is of course that you can maximize the profit potential of your current line, save money/resources and in the end reap larger profits. I think this is going to happen and it will impact nVidia's road-map moving forward.

While no expert in this area I can only apply common sense. I'm sure others out there reading this could figure out when we would typically see new video card products from nVidia had Vega matched their performance or come close to the 1080/ti/Titan. Anyone?

At any rate, this 1070 ti product in my eyes meets that criteria. It's kind of the odd duck isn't it?
 
That 1070 MSRP is a joke, it's many months old and no longer relevant. Considering the 1070s are ~450 USD currently at most major retailers, the Ti will likely end up around 500 or at price parity with the 1080. Even the fleecing edition is 400 from Nvidias' own page.


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If this does end up getting as close to the 1080 as suggested then that's basically the 1080, Vega 64 (for the second time) and 56 all dead in the water. The two AMD cards and the 1070 will surely see price cuts (in MSRP at least).
 
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I'd be curious to see how a SLI of 2 1070Ti cards would stack up against the EVGA FTW3 1080Ti in single card configuration
 
SixFootDuo said:
Common sense dictates that when you're winning a race by miles and miles you don't have to keep the gas pedal all the way down. You can ease off and conserve.
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The tortoise and the hare comes to mind.
 
Stryke1983 said:
If this does end up getting as close to the 1080 as suggested then that's basically the 1080, Vega 64 (for the second time) and 56 all dead in the water. The two AMD cards and the 1070 will surely see price cuts (in MSRP at least).
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those MSRP price cuts never equate to savings for the consumer.

just higher margins for the vendor.
 
I do not overclock anymore anyway. As long as its stable and works everyday like my geforce 660ti's in SLI works for me.
 
Nvidia is going about this all wrong. Why go through the effort of creating another model. They already have a Ti model. Just lower the price on the 1080 to $429.00 & they will sell like hotcakes.
 
We know that almost all 10XX series products tend to spend most of their time running approximately a couple hundred MHz above the listed boost rating. Think Nvidia will further lock down those post-boost in game speeds?
 
CombatChrisNC said:
Reminds me of Chevy rating the Camaros slightly less than the Corvettes even though they had the same engine.
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That's all done in tuning; if you have one dyno tuned that's not an issue.

It's the same thing Ford did to the Thunderbird/Mark8 cars; they were tuned slightly worse than the Mustang/Cobra of the era, otherwise very close to the same.

Add an intake, add exhaust, tune it and it was better than the best you could buy for way more money.

Although, the Vette suspension justifies its cost...
 
When the 1070Ti releases, it should reignite interests in gaming graphics cards again especially these coming seasonal holidays.
 
From the article:

It is true at this time that AIBs will not be allowed to sell "pre-overclocked" GTX 1070 Ti cards like we so often see done. All cards from all AIBs, at this time, will be sold at "reference" clocks dictated by NVIDIA. This again is obviously to keep the 1070 Ti from cannibalizing 1080 market share much like we have seen in the past with other Ti models.
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Also, aren't factory overclocks completely obsolete with modern Nvidia GPUs, since GPU-boost automatically pushes all of them beyond whatever lowest-common-denominator OC an AIB partner would choose as safe for all samples?
 
Lich King said:
When the 1070Ti releases, it should reignite interests in gaming graphics cards again especially these coming seasonal holidays.
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More like reigniting the mining craze again. People that actually want them to game on are going to be hard pressed to find them & aren't going to be paying what they wanna pay.
 
All of this mining craze makes me wish mGPU would pick up already

Then I could plug in my GTX 960 together with my GTX 970 and see performance benefits and I wouldn't have to buy the latest and greatest price/performance card that just so happens to be the best price/performance mining card.
 
PC gaming death kneel. Was fun while it was affordable ...
 
_l_ said:
PC gaming death kneel. Was fun while it was affordable ...
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Can you expand on this? You can game pretty well on integrated graphics really. Nobody *needs* a 1070 Ti class card unless they want to throw money at an improved experience. If you don't have that cash, there's plenty of $200 options for dedicated that are NICE for 1080p.
 
MrDeaf said:
All of this mining craze makes me wish mGPU would pick up already

Then I could plug in my GTX 960 together with my GTX 970 and see performance benefits and I wouldn't have to buy the latest and greatest price/performance card that just so happens to be the best price/performance mining card.
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I don't believe that will ever be a viable thing, that whole mGPU thing. It still needs developer work even in DX12, and the market is too small. Makes me kinda sad too but I predict it's dead as a doornail, save for a few titles.
 
lol, none of these will be for sale at $429. They'll be at $500+ and 1080s will go to up to $600+, still leaving lots of breathing room for 1080ti at $750+.
 
lollerwaffle said:
Can you expand on this? You can game pretty well on integrated graphics really. Nobody *needs* a 1070 Ti class card unless they want to throw money at an improved experience. If you don't have that cash, there's plenty of $200 options for dedicated that are NICE for 1080p.
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lol, no you can't. The only games you play on integrated graphics are games you'd also play on your cell phone.
 
Of course they are locking things down, what with releases being a hair away from one another performance-wise. Nvidia's milk run.
 
lollerwaffle said:
Can you expand on this? You can game pretty well on integrated graphics really. Nobody *needs* a 1070 Ti class card unless they want to throw money at an improved experience. If you don't have that cash, there's plenty of $200 options for dedicated that are NICE for 1080p.
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What card are you referring too for $200 that will run Rise of the Tomb Raider and Mass Effect Andromeda SMOOTHLY and give a graphics experience worthy of a seasoned game player @ 1080p?
Sure, lots of folks play on a console and don't know the difference really but once you play on a good PC for a while, there's really no going back ...
 
_l_ said:
What card are you referring too for $200 that will run Rise of the Tomb Raider or Mass Effect Andromeda SMOOTHLY and give a graphics experience worthy of a seasoned game player ?
Sure, lots of folks play on a console and don't know the difference really but once you play on a good PC for a while, there's really no going back ...
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Easy peasy... Lot of options such as 1060 for example. You do realize also that there are settings to help run better by lowering the shinies a little, right? 1080p is easy to drive.
 
Yeah, if you're not planning on maxing games out- or you're trying to run stuff at a level that hardware simply isn't yet adequate for, like VR or say 4k120- you're going to have to turn stuff down if you want smooth gameplay. Or live with slower performance.

Back on topic- I looked at prices of the 1080 and 1080Ti, and while I've been wanting to replace my 970's, I'm thinking that this 1070Ti will likely fall right where I want it while I wait for a Volta-based 1080Ti replacement.
 
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