Strix GTX 1070 Performance

[Nate152]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share with you the performance of the Strix GTX 1070 OC edition and how well it overclocks.

The Gaming Mode and OC mode are Asus settings in GPU Tweak II-

Gaming mode Core clock - 1632 MHz
Gaming mode - Boost clock -1835MHz
OC mode - Core clock - 1657MHz
OC mode - Boost clock - 1860MHz

Memory clock 8000MHz

Some nice clocks indeed but if you're like me I'm curious to see what it can really do so I installed GPU Tweal II, set a fan profile and proceeded to overclock.
Since I'm overclocking I will run the test in OC mode then I'll do a test with it overclocked to the maximum, we all know they leave us some room under the hood so we'll find out how much. I'll skip gaming mode but you can expect a tiny lower score with it since the clocks are slightly lower.


I used the unigine valley gpu stress testing/Benchmark program to test for stability and to see the scores. I have it set to 2560 x 1440 resolution, ultra settings with no antialiasing, this is how I play my games with the NVidia control panel 3d settings set to high quality.

Strix 1070 OC mode



Overclocked to the maximum with GPU Tweak II I was able to get the Boost clock to 2038MHz, over 2.0GHz that surpised me and amazed me at the same time, my matrix platinum 980 TI tops out at 1505MHz. Getting the Memory clock to 9342MHz is nothing more than astounding, that is a 1.34GHz overclock on the memory, the maximum temp was 61c.



There are some nice features with the Strix 1070 and that is two fan headers that are controlled by gpu temp, I think this is a brilliant idea. I'd guess 75% of people liquid cool their cpu including me so now we have the option of having the fans ramp with the gpu instead of the cpu, again just brilliant. It also comes with a free year of Xsplit Gamecaster which is a $99.99 value, that's very generous from Asus other vendors may only give you 6 months.I haven't tried Xsplit yet but I'm going to install it and see what it's all about.

And the Aura lighting? This is one of the coolest features about the Strix 1070, there is lighting in the front on the shroud and a lighted ROG logo on the backplate and you can change it to any color including white !

And Ansel an advanced screenshot program.

I'm very impressed with it's design and how it looks and performance is awesome and has great overclocking potential as you can see, going from OC mode to my overclock is quite a leap, a gain of 7 FPS and 14 max FPS and that shows they let a lot under the hood for overclocking.






Aura is getting an update to sync the Strix 1070/1080 with an ROG motherboard that has Aura lighting. I'll do a performance test with crysis 3, that's still a pretty demanding game and I don't see 111 FPS, I'll post an average.

[Nate152]

Hi Hutchie91

Your ROG Strix 1070 overclocks further than mine, how far does the memory overclock? There is an ROG Strix 1070 OC guide at the bottom of my post in my signature just click on it. You can run the benchmark and compare your score with mine and other ROG members.

The i5-6500 is 3.2GHz and this could be holding back performance some, I have my 6700k overclocked to 4.75GHz but with Doom overclocking the cpu doesn't benefit much.

Are you using antialiasing and if so how much? All the performance tests I've done in this thread with the ROG Strix 1070 is with antialiasing turned off.

[Nate152]

Here is some more Doom gameplay this time with V-Sync off and it rarely dips below 100 FPS, what is interesting is I have a 60Hz monitor and there is no screen tear, I'm lovin' this. 😄

I was having trouble with Xsplit Gamecaster, the last couple videos I recorded had video pausing and the audio was behind. After an Xsplit update all seems to be working well again.

Keep an eye on the Frames Per Second in the upper right corner.