Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Let's 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 MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X is quite s feast for the eyes. You will spot a nice matte black PCB with 10-phases and two power headers (one 8-pin and one 6-pin) for a little more overclocking headroom. The PCB is as mentioned matte black in color, and of course the new revision TwinFrozr VI cooler is being used. These cards will look just terrific in a dark themed PC. The card is pretty much (aside from the GPU and memory ICs) identical to the Gaming X 1080.

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

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 X edition of the Gaming series, meaning it has high but not the highest clocks and a back-plate, all quite impressive as well. The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G has default clock frequencies of 1771 MHz (boost) / 1582 MHz base) with a reference clocked 8192 MB GDDR5 / 8100 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 nickel-plated copper base plate connected to Super Pipes (8mm heat pipes) on this MSI GAMING series graphics card. A SU heat pipe layout increases efficiency by reducing the length of unused heat pipe and a special SU-form design. Zero Frozr technology eliminates fan noise in low-load situations by stopping the fans when they are not needed Up-to roughly 60 Degrees C, the fans won't even spin. The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the MSI Gaming APP, though we haven't tried it (due to lack of time) these are RGB configurable with a few animations as well. Also, check out that backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate with plenty of venting spaces applied as well. A proper one as well with lots of ventilation gaps.

The 1070 cards will have a power design of roughly 160 Watts, but due to the high clocks and extensive tweaking design please add maybe 25 extra Watts. Two power headers in combo with component selection like Hi-c CAPs, Super Ferrite Chokes and solid capacitors should be plenty for a nice tweak as well. The GeForce GTX 1080 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 (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 GTX 1080 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).