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 thee GeForce GTX 1070 G1 GAMING is quite something as it is totally custom, Gigabyte merely re-used that Pascal GPU and started building a new graphics card. You will spot a nice matte black PCB with 8-GPU phases. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, and of course the new revision WindForce 3X cooler is being used with the dandy 'blade' style fans. These cards will look just terrific in a dark themed PC, I mean just look at it. All powered by one power header (8-pin / 150W) and the PCIe slot at 75W, the cooler follows that theme with dark 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 G1 GAMING series, meaning it has higher 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 eats away two slots, 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 Xtreme engine software utility. These (top Gigabyte logo + fan stop area) are RGB configurable with a few animations as well.  Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate, unfortunately Gigabyte did not make any ventilation gaps and holes in that back-plate. This design can easily trap heat and work against the product. 

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).