Zotac- Geforce Gtx 1070 8gb Mini Video Card Review

• Manufacturer: Zotac
• Product Page: GTX 1070 Mini
• Purchase (Pak): RS 49,449 At the time of review
• Purchase (Britain): £353.21 At the time of review

With the release of Pascal architecture, Nvidia has given the gamers and enthusiasts what they were dreaming for, that is, core clocks reaching and crossing the whopping 2000MHz magical effigy, all the same being more efficient than Maxwell or Kepler architecture. This is definitely a nifty achievement for the marketplace and industry overall. Non merely at that place is a boost in clocks but underlying architectural changes are well appreciated.

Today, nosotros volition be reviewing a GTX 1070 mini from Zotac. Zotac has made quite a style among gamers and enthusiast overclockers. Their Amp series, particularly Amp Extreme has lived very well upwards to their branding of Push the Limits. Amp Extreme being the company'south high-end offer.

Specifications:

Specs of the GTX 1070 mini are: –

GPU	GeForce GTX 1070
CUDA Cores	1920
VRAM	8GB GDDR5
Bus Interface	256 bit
Cadre Clock	Base of operations : 1518MHz Heave : 1708MHz
Memory Clock	8GHz
PCI Express	3.0
Brandish Outputs	3x Display Port 1.4 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DL-DVI
Multi Display	Quad Display
Ability Consumption	150W
Recommended PSU	500W
Power Input	8-pin
DirectX	12 API feature level 12_1
OpenGL	four.v
Cooling Solution	Twin Fan
Slot Size	Dual
SLI	SLI Supported
Dimensions	210mm ten 122mm

Packaging:

The Cards Box comes with a traditional Zotac scheme of generally yellow color followed by blackness and green colors. Basic info most the carte du jour like Game Works, VR Works, GSync, DX 12 and VRAM are printed on the front cover.

The back side highlights some of the salient features and specs for the users. Back side has got well-nigh all specs that user could look at while buying.

Packing box is sturdy. There is another black color box inside containing the graphics card and the accessories. Box is placed within an inner packing for safe.

Included accessories are:

Dual 6-pin to 8-pin adapter

Commuter Disk

User Manual  and Instance Badge of Zotac

To our surprise, there was no backplate on this card which is somewhat disappointing. The card features Zotac's branded IceStorm cooling solution with dual 90cm fans. Icestorm cooling is amid the best in the market when it comes to cool the graphics carte du jour under load. This helps in longevity of the components on the PCB to ensure the longer lifespan of the menu.

Libation shroud is made of plastic in blackness color. In that location are two silver colour top and bottom custom pattern covers on the shroud which add to the overall aesthetics of the carte du jour. 8mm oestrus pipes are visible under the shroud near the PCIe connector.

PCB of the card is black.

Looking from the acme there is a unmarried viii-pin power connector. Total power depict of the carte is 150W. The card is factory overclocked to 1708MHz boost clock as compared to the Nvidia's guaranteed 1683MHz boost clock. Fan connector and header are visible in white color. Ane can come across two 8mm heat pipes and closer inspection would reveal the ii 6mm heat pipes correct on top of the cold plate. Light-green color pads are visible as well and all VRAM chips are covered with the heat pads. Zotac did non leave the cooling aspect from any angle uncovered. White color Zotac branding is visible on the top. There is no RGB or any lighting for this part which is understandable given the depression cost of the card.

As mentioned already that there is no backplate on the carte du jour. Card features 5 power phases for VRM. Two SLI fingers are visible. Zotac has provided the SLI support on this card which on one hand surprises me, while information technology makes sense on the other hand. As the card is mini grade gene, there is hardly a run a risk that there would be an SLI of these two cards in small form gene. But, one can yet go two of these cards and put them in a regular ATX form factor builds for SLI config. Good thinking on Zotac'due south part.

The Carte du jour has back up for upwards to iv displays. It supports HDCP as well. On the Behind of the card is a typical IO port featuring.

3x Display Port 1.4 ports

1x HDMI 2.0b port

1x DL-DVI port

Heat sink covers the complete PCB and some function of information technology extends over the PCB for best possible cooling.

Test Organisation and Methodology

Testing Organisation

Post-obit exam system was used to mensurate the performance of the card.

Asus Rampage V Edition ten

Intel i7 6850k at 4.0GHz

Corsair Vengeance 64 gigs @ 2666MHz

Samsung 840 EVO 250GB [for OS] /1TB SSD [For Steam Games]

WD Blackness 6TB [For Origin and Uplay games]

Corsair AX 1200i

Windows 10 x64 Professional Edition

Methodology

Cards performance was outset tested on stock sing benchmark software and games. Post-obit stress tests were conducted:

Unigine Heaven

Unigine Valley

3dMark Time Spy

3dMark Fire Strike

3dMark Burn down Strike Farthermost

3dMark Burn down Strike Ultra

Following games were tested:

Battlefield i

Battleground iv

Metro Concluding Light Redux

Grand Theft Automobile V

Call of Duty : Blackness Ops 3

Far Cry 4

Assassins Creed Syndicate

Doom

Games were tested on 1080p and 1440p and where possible Ultra settings were applied. MSI Later Burner was used to overclock and monitor the clocks and temps. Allow's go started with demote scores.

Performance and Benchmarks

Burn Strike

These are graphics scores, not overall scores as graphics scores should be focused while checking the functioning of the graphics carte. Overall score is impacted past the Physics score by CPU.

Burn Strike Extreme

These are graphics scores, not overall scores as graphics scores should exist focused while checking the functioning of the graphics card. Overall score is impacted past the Physics score by CPU.

Fire Strike Ultra

These are graphics scores, non overall scores equally graphics scores should be focused while checking the performance of the graphics card. Overall score is impacted past the Physics score by CPU.

Time Spy

These are graphics scores, not overall scores equally graphics scores should exist focused while checking the performance of the graphics card. Overall score is impacted by the Physics score past CPU.

Unigine Valley

Unigine Valley was run at 1080p and 1440p with Ultra settings. Only FPS are shown in the graph.

Unigine Heaven

Unigine Heaven was run at 1080p and 1440p at Ultra settings. Only FPS are shown in the graph.

Doom

BattleField ane

Battleground 4

Grand Theft Auto – V

Far Weep 4

Call of Duty : Black Ops 3

Metro Last Light Redux

Assassinator's Creed Syndicate

Overclocking and Software

Overclocking, Thermals and Power Describe

Zotac cards are known to be proficient overclockers particularly the Amp Farthermost and this card was no exception to that. To overclock the card, I used Zotac'due south FireStorm utility. This software has simple and friendly user interface. It did not take me any fourth dimension to start with it as it was my first fourth dimension with the FireStorm.

Boost clock on Stock	1835MHz
Temperature on Idle	31C
Temperature on Load	67C

The carte du jour was OCed to +350MHz on Core clock and +500MHz on Memory clock with l% voltage heave. Max boost clock was 2050MHz.

Boost clock with OC	2050 MHz
Temperature on Idle	41C
Temperature on Load	71C

Thermals

During my complete testing, fans were run on default settings. I did non change the fan curve to bring the temps down every bit temps in a higher place are nonetheless very good for this carte du jour. As no sound recording equipment was available at the fourth dimension of testing, the audio level could not be checked. Only, still from my personal experience, fans were dead silent fifty-fifty under load which shows the power of Icestorm cooler.

Power Draw

On stock, the maximum ability fatigued under load was 338W equally recorded by the AX1200i software. With overclocking, maximum power draw was 360W.

Overclocking Results

To bank check the performance gains following bench software and game were used:

Unigine Valley

Fire Strike

Time Spy

Battle Field iv

Fire Strike

There is a 7.ix% gain in graphics score which is quite good as the overclock was stable.

Fourth dimension Spy

Approx 9.v% performance boost in graphics score.

Unigine Valley

Unigine Valley was run at 1080p simply with overclock. Only FPS are shown in the graph.

A massive xiii.2 % functioning gain over the stock FPS is very impressive boost.

Gaming Performance Boost

8 FPS gain on average is a proficient figure which represents ix.5% gain over the FPS without overclocking.

Zotac is bringing some skillful value stuff in the market for enthusiasts and gamers, particularly in graphics menu. In that location are 5 unlike graphics cards in GTX 1070 lineup. GTX 1070 mini is aimed at market place segment with budgetary constraints yet it has delivered performance level of a regular size graphics card. This card does not have any blowers and whistles of RGB and whatever such stuff it has simple shroud pattern. No lighting issue and cutting downward version of icestorm cooler. But, in a higher place facts and figures are plenty to justify the purchase of this bill of fare particularly when one would consider the price of it. Its price is $389.99 equally listed on NewEgg. Based on its size, information technology is best suited for any pocket-sized form factor build yet information technology can exist used in whatever regular ATX size build. Needless to say, it has SLI capability equally well.

Operation:

Performance wise, this carte has delivered a very good gaming feel. I've admittedly no complaint with information technology. Anything and everything which I've thrown at information technology, it has chewed it very well. I cranked upwardly all the possible graphics settings to max and tested the carte on 1080p and 1440p resolutions.  In few games, it dipped below threescore FPS but those settings are not used on daily basis and lowering them from Ultra to Very High would see the menu doing 60+ FPS even on 1440p easily. Upwards to 1440p, this menu is all that one would need for their gaming experience. With the proficient potential of overclocking, this bill of fare tin can bring up to ix% functioning gain which is really handy if ane wishes to play with totally maxed out settings on higher resolutions.

Pattern:

This card has a very simple design however it packs the same icestorm cooling solution on it. The only con that I would come across in it is no backplate. Understandably then, this has further reduced the toll. Though Zotac would accept skipped on design elements and backplate only the sheer functioning given by this card overcomes this con very well.

Value:

With $389.99, one would get ultimate gaming experience card for up to 1440p resolution. For what it offers in this price range is too adept for the gamer.

This was my get-go Zotac card to game on and information technology has not disappointed me at all. From gameplay to overclocking, this bill of fare has delivered. I would rate this card as "Must Take".

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