The new architecture brings with it a lot of new features and improvements over the previous-generation Maxwell architecture including an all-new 16nm FinFET manufacturing process which allows for an even greater number of transistors to be packed into a smaller die area (7.2 billion, in the case of GP104), allowing for a 1.5x increase in power efficiency while providing up to 70% more performance than Maxwell-based solutions. This being our first review of a NVIDIA Pascal-based graphics card, it’s probably worth quickly going over some of the highlights of the Pascal architecture. That said, you do get higher factory overclocks than most custom GTX 1070 cards under $450 at 1632 MHz on core clocks and 1835 MHz on boost clocks. The ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP is currently priced at $439, putting it right in line with other custom GTX 1070s. Average pricing for the GTX 1070 is easily north of $400 in the $430 range due to constrained supply issues. This alone would not be a huge deal breaker considering the performance increases offered by the Pascal architecture, but unfortunately as we’ve seen over the past few months, that MSRP pricepoint may as well be a unicorn. Taking a look at the chart above, we can see that pricing for the GTX 1070 is quite a bit more expensive than the previous generation GTX 970, with the MSRP raised by $50 from $329 to $379. *ZOTAC non-reference specifications highlighted in bold. With giants like ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI commanding as much marketshare as they do, it might seem like an uphill battle for a company without the same brand strength as ZOTAC to stay in the game, but they’ve managed quite well over the years and have really begun to stand out of the crowd with their latest products. While there might not be much competition in the high-end segment coming from AMD, there’s still an immense amount of competition between NVIDIA’s various partners to deliver the most appealing custom cooling and board designs for NVIDIA’s products. Today, we’re taking a look at the latter or more specifically, the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1070 AMP! ZOTAC is a company who’ve been producing GeForce graphics cards for nearly a decade and have recently been making quite the name for themselves in the enthusiast and overclocking communities with the likes of their AMP! series, which usually offer superior cooling and higher quality power delivery systems than those found on reference designs. With that in mind, anyone in the market for a high-end graphics card really only has two options – the GeForce GTX 1080 or the GeForce GTX 1070. Fast forward four months to today, and it seems that the company is still commanding the high-end GPU market with no competition expected from rival AMD until early-2017. When NVIDIA first announced the Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards back in May, it was very clear that they had a pair of winners on their hands.
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