Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Xtreme Gaming Graphics Card Review
Test System and Testing Procedures
Processor | Intel Core i7-6700K (Retail) |
CPU Cooler | EKWB Predator 360 with Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound |
Motherboard | MSI z170A Gaming Pro Carbon |
Memory | Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 2x8GB @ 2666MHz 15-17-17-35 2T (XMP) |
Storage | Samsung 240 EVO 256GB SSD, Seagate ST3000M001 3 TB Mechanical Drive |
Case | DimasTech Mini v1 test bench |
Drivers | NVIDIA 368.81 |
Video Card(s) | Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 Xtreme Gaming |
Monitor | Monoprice CrystalPro 28″ LED TN panel 4K 60Hz monitor – Resolution set at 1920×1080 |
Operating System | Windows 10 x64 Pro with latest patches and updates |
Latest working BIOS, updates and drivers were used at the time of the review. Each test was conducted at least three times for accuracy. All benchmarks were performed at a resolutions of 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440 and 3840 x 2160 unless otherwise specified.
Testing Software and Methodology
Graphics quality settings were not changed between the resolutions.
- 3DMark Firestrike – One run Per GPU
- Standard, Extreme and Ultimate with no custom options.
- Alien Isolation-
- Preset at Ultra. Built in benchmark used. Recorded with Fraps.
- Battlefield Hardline
- Ultra Quality settings
- 5 minute game play run on Gator Bait level.
- Bioshock Infinite
- Adrenaline Benchmark tool – Ultra Quality + DDOF
- Crysis 3
- System Spec – Very High
- AA- SMAA High (4x)
- Texture Resolution Very High
- Advanced Graphics – Very High
- AF 16x
- Motion Blur Amount-medium
- 5 Minute game play run after the introduction.
- FarCry 4
- Graphics Quality Ultra
- 5 minute game play. From Arjay’s house on the cliff – fly across the river in the wing suit. Once we land, grab a car and head to Pagan Min’s palace.
- Metro Last Light Redux
- Built in Benchmark.
- Direct X 11
- Quality Very High
- Texture Filtering AF 16x
- Motion Blur Normal
- Tesselation Very High
- SSAA and Advance PhysX were disabled.
- Shadows of Mordor
- Graphic Quality Preset to Ultra
- Max FPS set to No Limit.
- 5 minutes game play after tutorial. Run through the large pit after jumping off the tower and kill as many enemies in the time limit.
- TESV:Sky Rim
- Graphics Quality preset set to Ultra.
- 5 Minute game play after the dragon attacks and you gain control of the character.
- Tomb Raider
- Adrenaline Benchmark tool- Ultimate Quality
- Witcher 3
- Graphics Quality set to Ultra.
- 5 minutes of game play after getting to White Orchard. We explored the town and the map to find as many enemies in the time allotted.
- DOOM – OpenGL 4.5
- Graphic Quality set to Ultra
- 5 minutes of game play in the Crucible level.
- Hitman 2016 – DX11
- Graphic quality set to ultra 8x AF
- Built In benchmark used
- Ashes of the Singularity DX11
- Graphic Quality set to crazy
- Built in benchmark used.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider – DX11
- Ultra Graphics Quality 8x AF
- Built In benchmark
- Overwatch
- Graphics Quality set to Ultra 8x AF – Frame limit turned off and resolution scale set to 100%.
- 5 Minutes of game play in Napal custom game with 1 player and AI
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Graphics quality set to Ultra
- 5 minute game play in Tatooine survival single player.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider SX11
- Graphics set to Ultra
- Built in benchmark used.
DirectX 12 and Vulkan testing – At this point in time, I don’t feel comfortable with the results that I got when benchmarking with DX12 and Vulkan. With these tests, I benched the card 3 times (standard) and the results varied wildly, sometimes up to 40 frames per second. I do my best to give accurate results and at this time I do not feel comfortable publishing the results with such a variance between runs. Included however, are the results for the DX12 API test in 3D Mark and the Time Spy demo.