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The Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1070 ships in a colourful box with an image of the card visible on the front.
The rear of the box highlights various technologies incorporated into the build such as the Wing Blade fans, Aura RGB lighting and the Fan connect headers.
The card itself is protected between slabs of thick Styrofoam and along the top is another box contains the accessories, including software discs, cable ties and literature.
The Asus ROG Strix GTX1070 is substantial in hand and it is fitted with a backplate, which features the RGB lighting. When the card is running under idle or a low load state the three fans do not spin.
I like the look of the ASUS Strix cards – they are understated and well built. the custom backplate looks great on show when the card is installed in the system.
The SLI connectors are shown in the image above. If you haven’t already, then I recommend you head to THIS PAGE to get detailed information on the new SLI configuration introduced in May with Pascal hardware.
The card takes all the power it needs from the slot, and a single 8 Pin power PCIe connector, shown above.
The Geforce GTX 1070 is DisplayPort 1.2 certified, DisplayPort 1.3 and 1.4 ready enabling support for 4K display at 120hz, 5K displays at 60hz and 8k Displays at 60hz (with two cables). The GTX 1070 Founders Edition includes three DisplayPort Connectors, one HDMI 2.0b connector and one dual link DVI connector. Up to four displayheads can be driven simultaneously from a single card.
Asus have cleverly ditched one of the DisplayPort connectors, opting for another HDMI port. They say this is to help with VR compatibility, offering a port to connect the VR device and another to the display, at the same time.
The backplate is beautifully engineered with the logo cut out, and fully able to glow in RGB during operation. The lighting is controlled by the software that is supplied with the card – called ‘AURA’. You are able to change lighting from static, to ‘breathing’, as well as ‘strobing’ and ‘colour cycle’ modes. A slider is positioned on the right of the interface which lets you select a colour from millions available.
The ‘music’ option allows the card to pulse along with music you are playing at the time. the ‘GPU temperature’ option controls lighting based on the temperature of the card. so it changes from green when colder to red, when hot. I can’t see anyone feeling that ASUS cut corners here.
The quality of the lighting is first class, the colours you choose are all very accurately represented on the card itself. The short video clip below shows the ‘colour cycle’ mode.
(the pictures above show the GTX 1080 version of the ROG STRIX card, but the AURA RGB lighting is the same).
The Direct CU III cooler is massive, comprising 5 thick direct contact nickel plated copper heatpipes which run into a base. There are several racks of densely populated aluminum fins and four of the five heatpipes run into one, and two lengths into another. Asus are using high grade SAP II Capacitors wihch are said to give 2.5x lifespan, which translates into 90,000 more hours of use when compared against traditional capacitors. They are using SAP II Chokes to reduce buzzing noise under load.
beast card, cant wait for the 480 to compete with this one if ever.
I would have liked to see a witcher 3 benchmark, but hey that’s just me.
Just wanted to point out that the table in the introduction for the Memory speeds is wrong.
oh yeah and the 1440p benchmark for GTA 5 shows the g1 1080. wut
I think they should have had some proof reading done on this. lol
Just a suggestion, but the release of this new generation of card with plenty of VR specific stuff could be the perfect opportunity to include a VR test in your review.
I’m quite interested in 1070/1080 despite no game using the SMP features yet, but there is almost no VR review with “real” games on most of professional reviews on the internet.
sorry, its fixed. ive been testing the new AMD card alongside this for another review and that was a code error showing a graph from an earlier review — no excuse, but fixed!
THe 480 is a 200$ card, which AMD has said will offer 970 / 980(non-Ti) performance levels. That’s pretty good for a 200$ card, but can’t compete with this…which is a 380$ card.
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I think AMD’s idea is to crossfire the 480’s to give you just a bit better than the 1070.
(Though with the AMD driver issues it may not be ideal. eg The division)
That would be 400 dollars (2x4gb model)
Yes, but it is nothing interesting SLI 960 for cheap will beat expensive 980. So cheap 480 will bet expensive 1070 even 1080.. same as future SLI 1060 will beat 1080
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And? SLI / Crossfire performance isn’t 1:1, and 7/10 games don’t come with support.
Hell, some games don’t get Crossfire support for up to 6 months.
STILL more expensive than the NVidia stock 1080 RRP! Jeeez!
I think I’ll buy this, for me the extra 10 fps you can get with a 1080 is not worth the extra $200.
You dont help enough when you mesure the power consumption from the whole system. There are many complaints if the card with only 1×8 pin connectord draws all 150 watt from the connector and stays safely within limits from the power also needed of the pci -e slot. Other vendors like evga and msi making cards with 8+6 pin connectors doesnt need to draw from the pci slot at all? Because the way i see it that would be a better design than the reference one
Nott in my country. The stock 1080 costs around 250 euros more here.