MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X Review
Published by Marc Büchel on 29.11.16Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | ||
| The GTX 1070 Gaming X with 8 Gigabyte of GDDR5X memory is a very quick card. The new Twin Frozr VI cooler, which is capable of deactivating the fans, when the card is in idle does a great job. Apart from that there is a high quality power design, and also overclocking capabilities are pretty good. Looking at the performance this card is definitely fast, overclocking itself to a maximum boost clock of a staggering 1987 MHz. Combine that with the 1920 CUDA cores, and you can grasp, that this card is seriously quick. Putting it through all the different games, we noticed, that it is capable of running at UHD smoothly even when the detail levels are high. Keeping in mind that these days a GTX 1070 Founders Edition card costs about 440 Euro, then the 484 Euro MSI is asking for this card, are definitely worth the better cooler, higher performance and overclocking capabilites. |
- Cooling
- Design - Noise level - Cooler |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| As noted earlier, the Twin Frozr VI cooler on this particular card is really powerful. We very much like the fact, that in idle this card is inaudible, since the fans are not spinning at all. Under load the card is still very silent and the cooler maintains a maximum temperature of 67°C, which is simply excellent. |
- Inaudible in 2D - Silent in 3D |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| Compared to the reference design, this card features a 114 MHz factory overclock regarding the boost clock. Therefore the performance is significantly higher, than what you would be getting from a reference card. On average this card performaned 5.5 percent faster than the reference GTX 1070. When it comes to power consumption we see that our system burns 63 Watts in idle and 282 Watts under full load. Overall power consumption is on the level we expected it to be and the high quality power design helps scraping off a few Watts every here and there. |
- Perforamnce - Factory OC |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| At the moment we find this card listed in Europe for 484 Euro. At this price point the MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8 GB is in our opinion an excellent deal. As we already mentioned this particular custom card costs about 48 Euro more than the reference model, and keeping in mind, that you get a great cooler, good overclockability and a complex custom PCB, the extra is definitely justified. Should you be looking for a really quick GTX 1070 custom or generally a fast single GPU card then this is an excellent choice. |
- 2160p Gaming - Silent PC |
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| The MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8GB receives excellent 5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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