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Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition Review (8GB GDDR5)

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The Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 uses the same functional aesthetic backplate called Exoarmor as found on its bigger brother – GTX 1080 AMP Extreme Edition, which is mounted on the back of the card. It’s an additional feature of the Ice-Storm cooling system, which provides protection and durability.

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Zotac’s special Specta feature makes the card pretty unique. It’s an advanced lighting system that allows you to have any colors of your choice. This is controlled by the FireStorm application which is easy to use.

 

The Card – Dissected

Zotac uses a pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 1070 GPU on the for their AMP Edition. Notice the markings on the GPU – Nvidia GP104-200 (the GTX 10810 has GP104-400).

Zotac have increased the standard base clock rate from 1506MHz to 1607MHz, and with Zotac’s Firestorm overclocking utility, 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! 😛

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The GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Edition by Zotac features their Ice-Storm cooling system. This particular model features a large heatsink with 5 heatpipes and is cooled by 2 cooling fans.

 

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You’ll also find high quality Samsung GDDR5 memory chips. They’re marked K4G80325FB, which runs at a blazing 1,000 MHz, that’s 8,000 MHz effective (1,000 x 4 x 2).

 

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3 comments

Kesmn 3 October 2016 at 16:42

“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.

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Winston 4 October 2016 at 02:29

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.

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Mathieu Bernier 21 November 2016 at 02:47

Pushed mine to 2114 mhz on core and 8300mhz on memory. 53 degrees gpu after 5 hours of forza horizon 3

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