ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 Ti STRIX Gaming review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

As always, we'll start off this review with our in-house photo-shoot. A few pages that show the ins and outs with photos, to get you a better idea to grasp what we are talking about in today's article.
   

So, the Strix is a more enthusiast class 1070 Ti SKU that ASUS delivers. They completely overhauled 1070 Ti, nothing = reference design as they merely use an official Pascal GPU.

The card has two HDMI port and two DisplayPort connectors. Obviously, it has some LED elements as well. Once this card powers up, two things will come to mind: pretty nice aesthetics and the sheer silence it offers. Very nice. As board partners are not allowed to release the 1070 Ti model cards in their own configurations you will see many versions differentiating based on coolers and PCB design.

• Boost: 1,683 MHz / Base: 1,607 MHz
• Memory 8.0 Gbps GDDR5 (effective data-rate)

The card itself is wide, with a triple-slot heat-pipe based cooling solution. In low-load situations fans are not needed, thus up-to roughly 60 Degrees C, the fans won't spin, making this product hybrid in the sense that it cools both actively and passively. The RGB LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with ASUS Aura SYNC software. Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate present, there are a few ventilation gaps though I'd like to see that improved (more gaps). At the backside, you will see a LED activated ROG logo (once powered on). 

 
The 1070 Ti cards have a power design of 180 Watts, however, AIB partners applied complex phase designs as they overclock/tweak really well. So purely based on the tweaking design, expect some more power allowances. We'll check into that with our power measurements. The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is 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. This model includes three DisplayPort connectors, one HDMI 2.0b connector, and one dual-link DVI connector. 

 
At the rear you'll stumble into two extra fan headers that will spin attached fans at the graphics card's fan RPM.