Does not expensive equal to right? Galaxy GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition graphics card unpacking, SLI and detailed measurement

Before joining Aunt Zhang’s graphics card, she received a public version of GTX 1070. For me tired of playing GTX 1080, the performance of GTX 1070 was obviously weak, so I started another GTX 1070 to build a GTX 1070. SLI. Using a super GTX 1070 and a public GTX 1070 to group SLI is a smart choice. In the evaluation of the public version of the GTX 1070, I have already said that the public version of the “Titanium” heatsink, although its general performance, is very suitable for the formation of SLI, because the turbofan requires very low air ducts and directly discharges hot air out of the chassis. In addition, even if the two graphics cards are very close together, the card cooling on the first PCIE slot will not be affected much.

Now the optional ultra-public version of the GTX 1070 is very large, the price is also very different, there are less than 3,000 yuan, there are also many 3,000, in the final analysis is the difference between work materials and radiators. Some people like the idea of ​​high quality and low price. Some people say that they share the goods and they only buy expensive ones. What exactly is expensive or not equal? This time I started playing with the most expensive GTX 1070. Among all non-public NVIDIA graphics cards, there are two models with the highest default frequency. One is Sotec's PGF Extreme Player OC, and the other is the GALAXY HOF Hall of Fame. I already have two Extreme Player OC's GTX 1080, so this time I started with GALAXY's HOF Hall of Fame. From the 6600GE player version in 2005 to now, I have been playing GALAXY graphics for more than 10 years, but I haven't played the HOF series yet. I'm embarrassed to say that I am a graphics player. Actually, the reason why I don't play the HOF series is very simple, that is, I have not participated in the overclocking competition for many years, and now I almost forget how to add liquid nitrogen. It would be of no special significance to me that the HOF series of graphics cards with a luxury power supply should be used. In recent years, I have tried more to try to make the public version of the graphics card or some of the more common graphics cards work better overclocking potential by modifying the BIOS. This is actually more meaningful to ordinary users. This time starting the HOF GTX 1070, I did not plan to play overclocking, just make up for the regret that had not played HOF. Do not talk nonsense, first come out of the box.


★ Unpacking ★

After playing N blocks of GTX 1070, in fact, Pascal's graphics card packaging style is well known, the front of the box must be brand information and factory LOGO, the upper right corner must be "VRREADY", the lower right corner must be DX12, the back of the box is inevitable Is the characteristics of the graphics card introduced. GALAXY HOF has been the main white PCB, so the appearance of the box also uses a white. The side of the box is the LOGO of Hall Of Fame. There are two models of HOF series GTX 1070. One is a limited edition, one is a regular version, and the limited edition has a higher frequency, only from the white label on the side of the box. Can we tell if it is a limited edition? Naturally, I started with a limited edition and bought a commercially available version, eliminating the need for overclocking myself.

The biggest difference between HOF and the public version is summarized in three places: 1, more luxurious work and materials, the power supply PWM is using a software programmable chip, so you can use the supporting software to the GPU core and memory voltage; 2 , a more efficient heat sink; 3, a special version of the video card BIOS, open the power limit. From the openness of the BIOS, we can see that the manufacturers and NVIDIA nepotism are far and near. Ordinary manufacturers can only get the public version of the BIOS. There are various restrictions. AICs with large shipments can get the XOC version. BIOS, removing many restrictions, can impact the overclocking limit.

GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition appearance and GTX1080 HOF almost exactly the same, white-based, supplemented with silver-gray traditional HOF theme color, three-fan TriMax heat sink, graphics card length to cm, thickness needs to occupy two and a half PCI slots . On the back is a silver metal backplate, which can prevent bending deformation of the PCB and improve heat dissipation. The happiest thing is that there are no nasty warranty labels on the screws. The display output interface is still one DVI-D + one HDMI 2.0 + three DP 1.4 consistent with the public version. There is a HyperBoost button next to the output interface. This is actually an upgraded version of the dual BIOS switch. The ordinary dual BIOS switch can only be used to switch between two different BIOS, one for the normal BIOS, one for the The XOC BIOS, which is open for overclocking restrictions, is available on many high-end graphics cards. However, GALAXY's HyperBoost uses a 6-pin interface. In addition to switching the BIOS, you can also control the fan speed and directly increase the speed of the fan. Black technology, but today's product homogeneity is very serious today is also considered an innovation.

The auxiliary power supply interface of GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition adopts dual 8Pin. There are still two SLI golden fingers on the PCB for multi-card interconnection. It is said that the new version of the SLI bridge is very overbearing, actually need to enter the CODE code to use, but I still use the old version of the SLI bridge, the SLI can be used normally when the dual card formation, 3 cards and more have not tried.

There is a Hof Of Fame Belief lamp on the back of the video card and on the top of the heatsink, respectively, and supports 16.8 million colors of RGB color, which is a lot of fun than the 7-color lighting effect of the Sotheby's PGF Extreme Edition.


★ Dismantlement ★
Next, let's take a look at the dismantling of the GTX 1070 HOF Limited Edition. After removing the TriMax heatsink, the real body of the PCB cannot be seen because the front of the PCB is also covered by a HOF Armor metal front panel. The Armor panel covers the memory particles and plays a role in assisting heat dissipation. The front and rear panels are fixed together, which can also prevent the PCB deformation. Because the GTX 1070 HOF has a relatively large head and heavy weight, I think that it is necessary to prevent the PCB from being deformed by the front panel and the back.

The GTX1070 HOF Limited Edition uses a 12-layer white PCB, 8+3 phase digital power supply, and a partially enclosed G Anti-noise inductor for the power supply circuit. The GTX1070 HOF Limited Edition adds a Hof Of Fame luminescent panel to the previous GTX 1080 HOF. It interconnects the PCB with a 4Pin power cord and is capable of 16.8 million colors of RGB lighting and lighting options via software. The position of this light-emitting board is very special, and it is installed in the hollow space above the PCB, so if you do not look closely it will be thought that the PCB is emitting light.

Let's first review the features of the GTX 1070. Like the GTX 1080, the GTX 1070 is based on NVIDIA's next-generation Pascal GP104 core, using a 16-nm process. The core model of the GTX 1080 is the GP104-400, the GTX 1070's core model is the GP104-200, and the GTX 1070 is 1/4 smaller than the GTX 1080, so each parameter is slightly lower than the GTX 1080. GTX 1080 has 2560 stream processors, 160 texture units, 64 ROPs, memory type GDDR5X, while GTX 1070 is reduced to 1920 stream processors, 120 texture units, ROPs is still 64, and the memory type is changed For ordinary GDDR5. GDDR5 memory is four times faster. Currently, the default maximum frequency of GDDR5 memory particles is 2000MHz×4=8000MHz. Part of the overclocking frequency can reach 9000-9600MHz, but it is difficult to increase the memory bandwidth by continuing to increase the frequency. GDDR5X memory uses the method of increasing the prefetched data bit width (from 8-bit to 16-bit) to increase the bandwidth, so GDDR5X memory can reach eight times the rate, for example, the base frequency of 1250MHz, you can easily reach 1250MHz × 8 = 10000MHz The equivalent frequency easily drops away from GDDR5. At the current GDDR5's limit, the GDDR5X horizon cannot be touched. If the GTX 1070 also uses GDDR5X, it will be how it works.

GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition GPU core model is GP104-200-A1, the default GPU core frequency is 1658MHz, Boost frequency is 1860MHz, and the actual highest Boost frequency is 1999.5MHz, which is actually 2GHz. However, video memory is not the same as the previous network media evaluation, using Samsung's memory, but the use of Micron's GDDR5 particles, number D9TCB, single-capacity 1GB, a total of 8 8GB of total capacity, memory frequency of 8008MHz. The power supply PWM model is the IR3595A, which can be software-pressurized to 1.6V.

(Micron D9TCB memory particles)

(PWM driver chip IR3595A)

The GTX 1070 HOF's TriMax heatsink is exactly the same as the GTX1080 HOF. The three 9cm fans have the same orientation. The heat sink body adopts pure copper heat sink base, 4 pieces of 8mm + 1 pieces of 6mm nickel-plated copper heat pipes, plus high-density heat sink fins, so the overall heat dissipation efficiency of the heat sink is high. The top of the radiator also has a Hof Of Fame faithful light board that supports 16.8 million colors of RGB color.

★ Performance Test ★

First, GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition single card default frequency:

Test results summary:

GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition GPU core default frequency is 1658MHz, Boost frequency is 1860 MHz, the highest Boost frequency in actual operation has reached 2GHz, memory frequency is 8008 MHz. Compared to the public version of the GTX 1070, the actual maximum Boost frequency is increased by 130 MHz, and the power of the HOF default BIOS is increased to 250 W, so the performance is definitely stronger than the public version of the GTX 1070. From the test results, the GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition has a 6-7% improvement in performance compared to the public version of the GTX 1070. However, the biggest advantage of the HOF Limited Edition lies in the aspect of heat dissipation. With the higher default frequency and better performance, the GPU core temperature of the GAX GTX 1070 HOF limited edition is 25°C lower and the noise is even lower. Small, the fan's maximum speed is controlled at around 2000 RPM.

Second, GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition and Gigabyte public version of the GTX 1070 dual card SLI:
In the dual-card SLI test, the public version of the GTX 1070 using a turbine heatsink is definitely placed on the first PCIE slot to be used as a main card because the main card has a small thermal space and the public version of the Titanium heatsink. The device is most suitable for use as the main card for heat dissipation. Originally, I wanted to use the public version of the GTX 1070 to refresh the HOF limited edition BIOS to increase the default frequency so that the dual cards are running at 2GHz core frequency. However, the biggest problem is the fan speed, because the fan speed of the HOF limited edition fan strategy is very low, if the public version of the turbo fan is running at such a low speed, the heat dissipation performance will be greatly reduced, and the public version of the Titanium The effectiveness of itself is not what it is. So I chose the high-frequency BIOS version of the GTX 1070 to refresh, with the highest GPU core Boost frequency of 1949MHz. After the dual-card SLI is formed, although the GAOP GPU core of GALAXY HOF has a maximum Boost frequency of 2 GHz, SLI is a low-frequency card according to convention. If the default frequency of the two graphics cards is different, then both cards still follow the frequency of the low-frequency card. To run, so the two cards after the formation of SLI GPU core frequency of both cards are fixed at 1949MHz. The performance of dual-card SLI is about 55-60% higher than that of the public GTX 1080 single card, and about 90% higher than that of the public GTX 1070 single card. Since the running frequency of the GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF Limited Edition is 50 MHz lower than the default, the GPU core temperature is lower than the single card runtime.

Test results summary:


★Software ★
Previous GALAXY graphics card has a dedicated magic disk setting software, but has now been upgraded to, but can not find the download on the official website of the Chinese (do not know that other people can not find, anyway, I did not find), and finally in English The version of Yingchi official website found the download link. The software is very simple to use, the first menu is "1-CLICK OC", the following is divided into "GPU OC 5%", "GPU OC 3%", "SILENT MODE" three sub-options, as the name suggests, "GPU OC 5 %” is overclocked by 5% (GPU core frequency is usually increased by 80+MHz), “GPU OC 3%” is overclocked by 3% (GPU core frequency is generally increased by 50+MHz), “SILENT MODE” is silent mode, The upper power limit in the mode is only 80% of the normal state. To reduce the upper power limit to limit the GPU core frequency, the fan speed is fixed at 30% to ensure the mute effect.

The third menu is the voltage setting, which can increase the GPU core voltage and memory voltage, but Pascal's GPU core is not sensitive to voltage under the air cooling, so it is not recommended for ordinary players to perform the pressurization operation.

The second menu is the various overclocking options, where you can increase the GPU core and memory operating frequency, increase the power cap and fan speed.

The fourth is the lighting setup menu. As mentioned earlier, the two plates of the Yingchi GTX 1070 HOF limited edition support 16.8 million colors of RGB lighting effects. There are eight kinds of LED lighting by default, which supports breathing lights and circulation. Three different lighting effects such as circular breathing. You can also manually configure colors in the palette yourself. You can also customize the lighting rules. By default, there are three rules: According to the GPU temperature, GPU load, fan speed three rules to change the light effects.

★ chief life home perspective ★

First, the advantages and disadvantages of GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF Limited Edition:

1.Advantages: The default frequency is the highest in many GTX 1070s, so the performance is also the strongest, it can reach about 87% of the public version of GTX 1080 performance; white PCB, 16.8 million color RGB lighting effects, high value of color; 8+3 phase digital Power supply, dual 8-pin power supply input, excellent workmanship materials, and open power limitations in the overclocked version of the BIOS, is very suitable for overclocking; die-casting front panel + metal backplane, both to prevent PCB deformation can also help memory and power supply circuit cooling; Radiator performance is excellent, even at the core frequency of 2GHz, full load temperature can still be controlled within 58 °C, and the noise is very low; supporting software features rich, one-key overclocking function is very practical for ordinary users.

2. Disadvantages: The length of the video card is 29.5cm. The thickness occupies 3 PCI slots. The requirements for the chassis are relatively high (must pay attention to the length of the graphics card supported by your own chassis), and if 2-3 blocks of the HOF form an SLI, it will affect Heat dissipation, there are certain requirements for the distance between the motherboard PCIE slots; although support 16.8 million colors of RGB lights, but if you need to set special lighting effects can only use the default eight kinds of color lights, can not use their own palette Color lighting; high prices, although there are many advantages, but the current minimum price of GTX 1070 is 2599 yuan, HOF limited edition minimum price of 3388 is more expensive than other models of the GTX 1070.

3, can be improved. Pascal's GPU core generates very little heat, so many manufacturers have designed the radiator fan to stop in the GPU standby mode to reduce the noise, but the GALAXY HOF does not use this design, but to keep the fan running at low speed during standby. Although the fan noise is very low when the GPU is under low load, it does not support fan stalling or is somewhat out of date. However, there are some problems with the fan stalling, that is, the standby GPU core temperature and the temperature on the back of the PCB will be high, and wait until the heat is accumulated to a certain extent after the fan restarts, how much will affect the cooling effect. My opinion is that since there are three fans, it can be designed that the fans on both sides stop at a low load, leaving only the fan that is facing the GPU's core position to run at a low speed.


Second, the purchase proposal

1. From the performance of the GTX 1070 graphics card and the current market positioning, the price/performance ratio of the GTX 1070 is significantly higher than that of the GTX 1080. The performance of the high-frequency version of the GTX 1070 can reach over 85% of the GTX 1080, and the price is lower than that of the GTX 1080. About 40%. Therefore, GTX 1080 is suitable for users who are pursuing top performance, GTX 1070 is more close to the people, and there is no competitive opponent at the current price of 3,000 yuan. The other issue is the issue of the GTX 1070 dual card SLI. At present, the price of the GTX 1070 dual card is approximately 600-800 yuan more than the GTX 1080 single card, which is about 14-15% higher than the cost of the GTX 1080 single card, but the performance is It is 55-60% higher than the GTX 1080 single card. Although the power consumption of the GTX 1070 dual card will be larger, the price/performance ratio is significantly higher.

2, regardless of performance or value, GALAXY GTX 1070 HOF limited edition is the top in many GTX 1070, of course, the price is top. I personally think that such a product cannot be measured in terms of cost-effectiveness and is not worth buying. The key is to depend on the preferences of users. For those users who have ample budget, like beautiful appearance, like default high frequency, like extreme overclocking, like all kinds of lighting effects, this card is very playable. It costs a few hundred dollars to buy a video card that you like. Excellent, hard to buy and happy. For users with limited budget, sensitive to price, and pursuing economic benefits, it is obviously not recommended to buy this video card. After all, those cheap GTX 1070s are actually weaker than HOF when they manually overclock. Not much, in the light effect, appearance will be worse, but the price is more affordable.

Finally, there is a ladder diagram of the latest graphics performance of the Black Mountain old demon version. Thank you for watching.

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