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The Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1070 is a noticeable improvement over the Nvidia GTX1070 Founders Edition card which we tested way back on launch day on June 3rd HERE.
After testing the excellent ROG Strix GTX1080 last week I can't say that this has been much of a shock to me. Asus are simply producing some of the finest graphics cards available on the market this year.
Asus have nailed their cooling solution on the Nvidia Pascal graphics cards. The Direct CU III cooler on the ROG Strix GTX 1070 holds temperatures between 55c and 60c under load and noise levels are some of the lowest we have recorded to date. In reality the Asus card runs around 16c cooler than the reference Nvidia Founders Edition GTX1070 solution. The Zero fan profile under idle or lower power demands is a welcome addition.
This Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1070 would actually be one of our first choices for a 1080p/1440p gaming system if running with the lowest possible noise emissions is a primary requisite. The adoption of concrete concrete alloy chokes means that ASUS have negated any coil whine, even under extreme load situations.
I am not a big believer in having a plethora of flashing lights inside a system, but for those users who wish to colour coordinate their system, then the AURA RGB lighting system should prove popular. The fact you can turn it off completely will also important for some people.
The Asus Republic Of Gamers Strix GTX 1070 Aura RGB OC is currently on pre order with Overclockers UK for £469.99 inc vat. You can buy it HERE.
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Pros:
- excellent performance out of the box.
- silent (zero fan mode) when idling or under low load.
- good overclocking headroom.
- 16c cooler than Founders Edition GTX1070 when gaming.
- controllable RGB lighting system.
- high grade components used across the board.
- no coil whine.
Cons:
- expensive.
Kitguru says: The Asus Republic Of Gamers GTX 1070 Aura RGB is the best GTX1070 we have tested to date. Noise levels are minimal, the RGB lighting system will be welcomed and frame rate performance is stellar. The Asus card also runs 15-20c cooler than the reference Nvidia Founders Edition card.
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.