ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 STRIX Gaming review - Product Showcase

 
 
The STRIX  GeForce GTX 1070 has been fitted with Nvidia's Pascal architecture GPU (GP104) fabbed on the 16 nm FinFet node. The GPU holds 7.2 billion transistors with 1,920 shader/stream cores activated tied to 8 GB of GDDR5, it remains a fast product compared to the 1080. In Ultra HD it can advance up-to 25% in performance over the GeForce GTX 980 as we learned. Performance wise you are looking at a card that can keep up with the GeForce 980 Ti and Titan X in performance, often even faster.

 
The GPU empowering the product is called the GP104-200 GPU, which is Pascal architecture based. It has 1,920 CUDA Cores, while texture filtering is performed by 120 texture units. The reference/founder cards have a base clock frequency of 1,506 MHz where ASUS clocks the base frequency 127 MHz higher (over reference) at 1,633 MHz. One difference of course is the use of GDDR5 memory over GDDR5X memory on the 1080. The card has a 160 Watt rated TDP, 75 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot, then 150 Watts through the single 8-pin PEG (PCI Express graphics) power connector and another 75 Watts though the extra 6-pin connector. So yes, you'll have spare for an overclock. The GeForce GTX 1070 display engine is capable of supporting the latest high resolution displays, including 4K and 5K screens. And with HDMI 2.0 support, the GeForce GTX 1080 can be used by gamers who want to game on the newest state-of-the-art big screen TVs.

While the card will not run very hot, the backplate is trapping heat as it is completely and utterly closed. We do recommend backplates with plenty of vents at the VRM and GPU areas.
  

At the rear of the card you can see these pins right ? These actually are two fan headers. You could in theory connect two PWM fans to them, and once the GPU heats up, fan RPM goes up as well as the fans connected to them.