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 as you can see, the GeForce GTX 1070 is looking quite a bit like the previous models, again a similarly fashioned cooler is being used. This round however there are subtle changes in aesthetics, with the cooler shell showing triangles (the base unit for render polygons/objects/scenes), some will love and some will dislike that nickel alloy based cooler shroud.
There's a green LED in the top side fan housing (controlled with GeForce Experience) and the 1070 is displayed in chrome. The cooler is now offered as a premium solution. The heatsink shell is made from cast aluminum and an injection molded magnesium alloy. This is a good conductor of heat, plus it helps out with isolating noise. And preventing noise for this product was key for Nvidia. Obviously you'll see a gazillion board partner cards with their own designs in PCB, cooling and tweaking. Above in fact is the Founders Edition. The Founders Edition is selling at a price premium, but is just this, the reference card as shown above with stock clocks.
The card once again is your standard dual-slot solution, its cooling is vapor chamber based. The cooler's Plexiglass allows you to actually look into the heatsink's aluminum fins. The fan is outfitted with a special design, its airflow is carefully directed to take in air from the PC and exhaust it outside the PC, in order to optimize cooling efficiency while minimizing noise causing restrictions. Each 1070 will have a maximum power design of roughly 180 Watts, but yes, these are made to overclock as well. As such, Nvidia is using just one 150 Watts 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connector. Another 75 to 150 Watts is delivered though the PCIe slot and thus motherboard.
As you can see, a two-part backplate. The opinions on backplates differ per person. Of course, they protect the backside of the PCB and its components, but backplates can also easily trap heat. This design seems to do just that, hence I am not a fan of it. I would have liked to have seen many meshes and airflow vents. And then they are often added for aesthetic reasons of course. GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition will offer five display connectors; you'll spot three DisplayPort connectors, one full-size HDMI connector, and one DVI connector.
Both the GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 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). The GeForce GTX 107 and 1080 Founders Edition cards include 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 GPU 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).
