Installation
Like all graphics card, the installation is simple. Just make sure you have plenty of room inside your chassis. You’ll need 2 PCI-E slots space for this card.
The Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition is a pretty heavy graphics card in terms of weight … so do be careful when inserting it in to the PCI-E slot on your motherboard.
The Spectra lighting system from Zotac lights up the card via the FireStorm application. You can easily customize and set up your own color and lighting to suit your style.
Test Bench
For our tests, we used a completely new test rig which comprises of an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 motherboard, along with an Intel Core i7-6800K at default clock speed of 3.4GHz, as well as 32GB of ADATA DDR4-2400 ram in quad channel mode.
All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.4GHz |
| Cooling | XSPC RayStorm Pro CPU waterblock |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 |
| Ram | 4 x 8GB ADATA XPG Dazzle DDR4-2400 |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 16-16-16-39 @1.2v |
| HDD | Crucial MX300 – 750GB |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G RGB 750W |
| VGA card |
Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition Review (8GB GDDR5) |
| Watercooling |
Thermaltake Pacific RL240 D5 watercooling kit |
| Nvidia Drivers | Version 372.90 WHQL |
| OS | Windows 10 |
The Software
The Firestorm overclocking utility and software allows you to take AMP Edition GTX 1070’s pre-overclocked speed of 1607MHz even further … to a blazing 1797MHz or higher!
AIDA64 GPGPU Benchmarks
PC Mark 8 (3D Test)
The 3D tests on PC Mark 8 shows the impressive performance of the Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition. The graphs and screenshot above speaks for itself.
3 comments
“you can further increase the clock speeds to a blistering 1797MHz or even higher! That’s almost the same speed as their GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme Edition! … potentially saving you over USD $400!”
Just… wow. Did you just state that there are no differences to the gtx1080 apart from the clock speed? How about the fact that the 1070 core is cut down by 25% and will thus offer exactly 25% less performace clock-to-clock.
Also, when you disect a card, why not study the vrm closer? It’s literally the only thing that tells this card apart from the others (more phases, less strain, less possibily for coil whine, better regulation, better over clock).
And while we’re at it, could you explain why 2*8pin power is absolutely necessary? The base card is rated at 150Watts and this card will never, ever need the 375W (2*150W+75W) that you are insist on. To be fair, 225W (1*8-pin/2*6pin) might not be enough with heavy overclocking, but 6+8 is plenty.
You know as well as I do … the GTX 1080 performance in REAL life gaming will only give you ~10% performance over a GTX 1070. So what we’re are saying is … why pay $400 more for ~10% performance increase? Not worth it. For most games at 1920×1080 with max settings .. .the GTX 1070 offers the BEST price/performance ratio. Period. If you run at 4K resolution than the GTX 1080 is the one to go for.
Pushed mine to 2114 mhz on core and 8300mhz on memory. 53 degrees gpu after 5 hours of forza horizon 3