EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC 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.
  

So the EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SuperClocked Gaming with ACX 3.0 cooler aside from it's way too long name, certainly is impressive to look at. It has a bit of a robust sturdy metal look and feel, dog-tags is a word here that does come to mind. You will spot a nice matte black PCB with 4 GPU hases and 1 phase for memory. All powered by one power header (8-pin / 150W) and the PCIe slot at 75W. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, the cooler follows that theme with dark and metal looks. These cards will look just terrific in a dark themed PC. 

GeForce GTX 1070

• 16 nm GP104 silicon "GP104-200-A1" GPU
• 1920 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
• 3x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DVI

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 SC (SuperClocked) edition of the Gaming series, meaning it has higher but not the highest clocks and a back-plate, all quite impressive as well. The card has default clock frequencies of 1784 MHz (boost) / 1594 MHz base) with a reference clocked 8192 MB GDDR5 / 8000 MHz effective data-rate on the memory.

The card itself is a dual-slot solution, it is heat-pipe based with two spinners. Cooling has much improved over the years and up-to roughly 60 Degrees C, the fans won't spin.  Once they do, the ACX cooler remains very silent and in fact is one of the most silent cards we have tested to date. Also, check out that backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate with some venting spaces applied as well. I would have liked to have seen a few more vents at the GPU and VRM zones though. We'll show you why in our thermal imaging measurements.

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).