NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070: specs and benchmarks
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce GTX 1070 sales 10 June 2016 at a recommended price of $379. This is high-end Pascal architecture desktop card based on 16 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers. 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8 GB/s are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is 2-slot card attached via PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 10.5" (26.7 cm). 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 150 Watt.
It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 61.52 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.
General info
Technical specs
Memory specs
Technologies
Benchmarks
Mining
Gaming
AMD equivalent
Advices and comments
General info
Of GeForce GTX 1070's architecture, market type and release date.
Perfomance to price
66.68
Architecture
Pascal
Code name
GP104
Type
Desktop
Release date
10 June 2016
Technical specs
GeForce GTX 1070's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce GTX 1070's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
CUDA cores
1920
Transistor count
7,200 million
of 21100
Maximum GPU temperature
94 °C
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce GTX 1070's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
Bus support
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Length
10.5" (26.7 cm)
Height
4.376" (11.1 cm)
Width
2-slot
Recommended system power (PSU)
500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors
8-pin
Memory specs
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce GTX 1070: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
Memory type
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
of 32
Memory clock speed
8 GB/s
of 14000
Shared memory
-
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce GTX 1070.
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
Display Connectors
DP 1.42, HDMI 2.0b, Dual Link-DVI
Multi monitor support
+
G-SYNC support
+
Technologies
Technological solutions and APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1070. You'll probably need this information if you need some particular technology for your purposes.
3D Vision
+
GPU Boost
3.0
VR Ready
+
CUDA
+
SLI
+
Multi-Projection
+
Multi Monitor
+
Ansel
+
Virtual Reality
+
ShadowWorks
+
API support
APIs supported by GeForce GTX 1070, sometimes including their particular versions.
DirectX
12.0
OpenGL
4.5
of 4.6
Vulkan
+
Video card benchmarks performance
Non-gaming benchmarks performance of GeForce GTX 1070. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall benchmark performance
58.42
3DMark Cloud Gate GPU
105630
3DMark Fire Strike Score
14823
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics
18031
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
24510
3DMark Vantage Performance
50543
Unigine Heaven 4.0
2815
Passmark
11192
3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score
18460
Mining hashrates
Cryptocurrency mining performance of GeForce GTX 1070. Usually measured in megahashes per second.
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256)
832 Mh/s
Decred / DCR (Decred)
2.83 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto)
28.69 Mh/s
Siacoin / SC (Sia)
1.75 Gh/s
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight)
0.65 kh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash)
435.21 Sol/s
Game benchmarks (in FPS)
Let's see how good GeForce GTX 1070 is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.
Overall gaming performance
0.74
Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net
Far Cry 5 (2018)
low / 720p
134
medium / 1080p
108
high / 1080p
103
ultra / 1080p
96
4k / 2160p
35
Fortnite (2018)
low / 720p
317
medium / 1080p
286
high / 1080p
181
ultra / 1080p
129
4k / 2160p
39
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018)
low / 720p
145
medium / 1080p
114
high / 1080p
93
ultra / 1080p
69
4k / 2160p
23
Ark Survival Evolved (2017)
low / 720p
130
medium / 1080p
83
high / 1080p
59
ultra / 1080p
40
4k / 2160p
15
Assassin´s Creed Origins (2017)
low / 720p
103
medium / 1080p
91
high / 1080p
87
ultra / 1080p
73
4k / 2160p
33
Destiny 2 (2017)
low / 720p
166
medium / 1080p
162
high / 1080p
147
ultra / 1080p
123
4k / 2160p
33
Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017)
low / 720p
190
medium / 1080p
104
high / 1080p
95
ultra / 1080p
52
4k / 2160p
34
Mass Effect Andromeda (2017)
low / 720p
163
medium / 1080p
126
high / 1080p
89
ultra / 1080p
73
4k / 2160p
37
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) (2017)
low / 720p
126
medium / 1080p
117
high / 1080p
107
ultra / 1080p
79
4k / 2160p
28
Resident Evil 7 (2017)
low / 720p
517
medium / 1080p
281
high / 1080p
171
ultra / 1080p
141
4k / 2160p
49
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017)
low / 720p
200
medium / 1080p
146
high / 1080p
130
ultra / 1080p
114
4k / 2160p
38
Battlefield 1 (BF1) (2016)
low / 720p
200
medium / 768p
195
high / 1080p
139
ultra / 1080p
122
4k / 2160p
57
Civilization VI (2016)
low / 768p
90
medium / 768p
74
high / 1080p
66
ultra / 1080p
67
4k / 2160p
65
Deus Ex Mankind Divided (2016)
low / 720p
155
medium / 768p
134
high / 1080p
78
ultra / 1080p
43
4k / 2160p
27
Dishonored 2 (2016)
high / 1080p
91
ultra / 1080p
81
4k / 2160p
38
Doom (2016)
ultra / 1080p
132
4k / 2160p
51
Far Cry Primal (2016)
low / 720p
158
medium / 1080p
129
high / 1080p
114
ultra / 1080p
92
4k / 2160p
40
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (2016)
high / 1080p
114
ultra / 1080p
102
4k / 2160p
39
Overwatch (2016)
high / 1080p
269
ultra / 1080p
167
4k / 2160p
88
Rise of the Tomb Raider (2016)
ultra / 1080p
98
4k / 2160p
41
The Division (2016)
ultra / 1080p
83
4k / 2160p
41
Titanfall 2 (2016)
ultra / 1080p
122
4k / 2160p
46
Watch Dogs 2 (2016)
high / 1080p
95
ultra / 1080p
63
4k / 2160p
37
XCOM 2 (2016)
ultra / 1080p
44
4k / 2160p
26
Fallout 4 (2015)
ultra / 1080p
111
4k / 2160p
46
GTA V (2015)
ultra / 1080p
74
4k / 2160p
61
Just Cause 3 (2015)
high / 1080p
133
ultra / 1080p
114
4k / 2160p
51
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
low / 768p
336
medium / 768p
283
high / 1080p
210
ultra / 1080p
181
4k / 2160p
69
The Witcher 3 (2015)
high / 1080p
123
ultra / 1080p
64
4k / 2160p
44
Battlefield 4 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
150
4k / 2160p
72
Crysis 3 (2013)
ultra / 1080p
82
Tomb Raider (2013)
ultra / 1080p
213
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce GTX 1070 performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce GTX 1070 from AMD is Radeon RX Vega 56, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
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