Following what most would agree was a successful launch of its GeForce GTX 1080, NVIDIA has decided to waste no time in making the specs for its next big card, the GTX 1070, available for all to see. This morning, the company added the card’s profile to its GeForce.com website, allowing us to build a better picture of what we can expect from it.
As noted at Pascal’s unveiling a couple of weeks ago, the GTX 1070 Founders Edition shares the exact same cooler with its big brother, but unlike its big brother, the premium here is $70, not $100.
The SRP of “regular” GTX 1070s is $379 – a potential bargain considering the fact that the card is supposed to match a TITAN X. When Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the GTX 1070, it was the best example of a “mic drop” I’ve ever seen in person. The GTX 1080 is impressive, of course, but the GTX 1070 is priced well. Consider that the GTX 1070 is spec’d at 6.5 TFLOPs compute, while the TITAN X sits under it with 6.15 TFLOPs. That means that a card that’s soon to be available for ~$379 beats out last-gen’s $1,000 top-dog.
NVIDIA GeForce Series |
Cores |
Core MHz |
Memory |
Mem MHz |
Mem Bus |
TDP |
GeForce GTX 1080 |
2560 |
1607 |
8192MB |
10000 |
256-bit |
180W |
GeForce GTX 1070 |
1920 |
1506 |
8096MB |
8000 |
256-bit |
150W |
GeForce GTX TITAN X |
3072 |
1000 |
12288MB |
7000 |
384-bit |
250W |
GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
2816 |
1000 |
6144MB |
7000 |
384-bit |
250W |
GeForce GTX 980 |
2048 |
1126 |
4096MB |
7000 |
256-bit |
165W |
GeForce GTX 970 |
1664 |
1050 |
4096MB |
7000 |
256-bit |
145W |
GeForce GTX 960 |
1024 |
1126 |
2048MB |
7010 |
128-bit |
120W |
GeForce GTX 950 |
768 |
1024 |
2048MB |
6600 |
128-bit |
90W |
GeForce GTX 750 Ti |
640 |
1020 |
2048MB |
5400 |
128-bit |
60W |
It’s worth pointing out something that the above table doesn’t: The GTX 1070 sticks to GDDR5; it’s not upgraded to GDDR5X like the GTX 1080 is. That doesn’t affect much, though. The TITAN X also used GDDR5, and this card is set to offer the same performance. Even though it stuck to GDDR5, though, NVIDIA managed to increase the speed by 1Gbps, which puts it just 2Gbps behind the GTX 1080’s 10Gbps.
The GTX 1070 is set to become available on the 10th of June, although it’s not clear at this point if reviews will appear online in advance. I’m leaning towards NVIDIA wanting reviews to go live on the same day, although I’ve been proven to be an awful guesser.
With the GTX 1070 looming, the question on everyone’s mind is: Where is AMD? The answer: You won’t be waiting too long to find out. It’s going to be an exciting summer for graphics!