ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 STRIX Gaming review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

We start with our photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, all taken with an in-house photo-shoot of course.
  

Meet the GeForce GTX 1070 STRIX - it is quite something as it is totally custom, ASUS merely re-used that Pascal GPU and started building a new graphics card. You will spot a nice matte black product and PCB with 6-GPU phases with another one for the memory. Of course the new revision DirectCU III  cooler is being used with dandy "Wing-Blade Fans" style fans. These cards will look just terrific in a dark themed PC, especially thanks to the Aura RGB LED lighting system, you can match the colors schema of your PC to this card

GeForce GTX 1070

• 16 nm GP104 silicon "GP104-200-A1" GPU
• 1,920 CUDA cores
• 15 out of 20 streaming multiprocessors enabled
• 120 TMUs
• 64 ROPs
• 256-bit GDDR5 memory, 8 GB standard memory amount
• Maximum GPU Boost frequency ~1,700 MHz
• 6.45 TFLOP/s single-precision floating point performance
• 150 W TDP, single 8-pin PCIe power connector

As board partners are allowed to release the 1070 model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions, mostly based on customized PCB/component and the obviously mandatory different cooling solutions. This is the STRIX GAMING series, meaning it has higher clocks and a back-plate, all quite impressive as well. The card has default clock frequencies of 1,835 MHz (boost) / 1,633 MHz base) with a reference clocked 8,192 MB GDDR5 / 8,000 MHz effective data-rate on the memory.

The card itself is a dual-slot solution, it is composite heat-pipe based, the GPU is cooled by a copper base plate directly connected to the heat-pipes. You won't hear the fan noise in low-load situations as the fans do not spin when they are not needed (up-to roughly 60 Degrees C), once it reaches that temperatures the three fans will kick in. The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the Aura engine software utility available from ASUS. These top logo + rear ROG logo + frontside LEDs are RGB configurable with a few animations as well. Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate. It is nice to see some gaps, I would have liked to see a little more mesh at the GPU area though.

The 1070 cards have a reference power design of roughly 160 Watts, but due to the somewhat higher factory clocks and tweaking please add maybe 15~25 extra Watts. The cards are DisplayPort 1.2 certified and DP 1.3/1.4 ready, enabling support for 4K displays at 120Hz, 5K displays at 60Hz, and 8K displays at 60Hz (using two cables). This model includes three DisplayPort connectors, one HDMI 2.0b connector, and one dual-link DVI connector. Up to four display heads can be driven simultaneously from one card. The Pascal display pipeline supports HDR gaming, as well as video encoding and decoding. New to Pascal is HDR Video (4K@60 10/12b HEVC Decode), HDR Record/Stream (4K@60 10b HEVC Encode), and HDR Interface Support (DP 1.4).