My Zotac gtx1070mini review

[keith with the teef]

Hi guys, I got my self a zotac GTX1070 mini 8GB ice storm.

A review then.

well, no surprise as it currently stands it cuts the mustard but on some tittles its only 1080progressive capable really.

well, I got it for £350 which is significanly out side of my cost comfort zone. But most others 1070’s as it currently stands are £100 more. I figure this dynamic will soon change to lower.

Overclcokers say it has a 5 years warrenty, but I have to check this out. but on the box it says extended warrenty?

Described as a mini, well its not. The pcb is small but the cooler is not. I guess someone did the maths and it will fit in something small?

Described as having a small GPU boost over founders edition, well, I can tell you this is incorrect. My card is happy to self boost well over 1900MHz thats more than 200MHz over advertised. which is significant.

x2 nasty apps to use with the card are ROTTR and crysis3.

Rise of the tomb raider is a perfect test for the card, thrashing the GPU and GDDR5 @1080p. Boost clock well over 1900Mhz and shocking on ultra setting gobbles up well over 7GB of frame buffer. But the game runs at not less than 60pfs every where=perfect.

Crysis3 sadly has a built in frame buffer bottleneck of, wait for it! 2GB? and so at times pisses you off (falling frame rate) and because of this pushes the gpu fastest.

I find the card to be worthy of being dynamic.

Back to the cooler: its full on beef, bigger and bolder than on a RX480 nitro (wowzers) and the GPU fans don’t come on until the card hits around 60c and in my case they spin crazy slow as the temp is balaced out at 70c. Seriously impressive.

Now, I have to say that whilst I prefer AMD eyecandy, there is something not right with AMD cards and I recon and call me daft, but it sure as hell, feels like AMD cards do not do physics at 60fps making for something not right within the 60fps image. So Nvida win there.

Specification:
– GPU: GeForce® GTX 1070
– CUDA cores: 1920
– Video Memory: 8GB GDDR5
– Memory Bus: 256-bit
– Engine Clock Base: 1518 MHz
– Boost:1708 MHz
– Memory Clock: 8000 MHz
– PCI Express 3.0
– Display Outputs: 3 x DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b, 1x DL-DVI
– HDCP Support: Yes
– Multi Display Capability: Quad Display
– Recommended Power Supply: 500W
– Power Consumption: 150W
– Power Input: 1x 8-pin
– DirectX 12 API feature level 12_1
– OpenGL 4.5
– Cooling: Blower
– Slot Size: Dual Slot
– SLI: Yes
– Supported OS: Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista
– Card Length: 266.7mm x 111.15mm
– Warranty: 5 Year

TY. 🙂

 

[The Duke]

Cool card, but by modern standards that is a mini. My 970 is about twice the length. My amd5850 was even bigger than my 970. The kids use to use it for sledging when the snow come. Lol.

My 970 I had to “mod” my case to get it in, dremel style. Minus one drive cluster bay it fits.

[keith with the teef]

LOLs. 🙂

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