MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming Z review - Product Showcase

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 GAMING Z 8G takes advantage of Nvidia's Pascal GPU GP104 based on 16 nm FinFet architecture, and with 7.2 billion transistors, 1,920 shader/stream cores, and 8 GB of GDDR5, it’s 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 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 MSI clocks the base frequency 126 MHz higher at 1,657 MHz (default). Another difference of course is the use of GDDR5 memory over GDDR5X memory on the 1080. 

The card has a 160 Watt rated TDP, 75-150 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 a nice overclock. The GeForce GTX series 1000 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 1070 can be used by gamers who want to game on the newest state-of-the-art big screen TVs.