Nvidia's partner manufacturers must not overclock the Geforce GTX 1070 Ti

When AMD launched the Vega architecture for consumers, it quickly became clear that the Radeon RX Vega 64 more or less matched the Geforce GTX 1080, while the RX Vega 56, which consistently performs better than the GTX 1070, poses a greater threat to Nvidia. The situation has resulted in Nvidia working on a new intermediate model that goes by the name GTX 1070 Ti.

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Specifications: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Ti

	GTX 1080	GTX 1070 Ti	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
Technical	16 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC	16 nm TSMC
Circuit	GP104	GP104	GP104	GP106
Circuit surface	314 mm²	314 mm²	314 mm²	200 mm²
Transistors	7.2 billion	7.2 billion	7.2 billion	4.4 billion
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
SMX-kluster	20 st.	19 st.	15 st.	10 st.
CUDA cores	2 560 st.	2 432 st.	1 920 st.	1 280 st.
Texture units	160 st.	152 st.	120 st.	80 st.
Raster units	64 st.	64 st.	64 st.	48 st.
Clock frequency	1 607 MHz	1 607 MHz	1 506 MHz	1 506 MHz
GPU Boost	1 733 MHz	1 683 MHz	1 683 MHz	1 708 MHz
Computational power	8 873 GFLOPS	8 186 GFLOPS (+26,7%)	6 463 GFLOPS	4 372 GFLOPS
Memory bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory amount	8 GB GDDR5X	8 GB GDDR5	8 GB GDDR5	6 GB GDDR5
Memory frequency	10 000 MHz (11 000 MHz)	8 000 MHz	8 000 MHz	8 000 MHz (9 000 MHz)
Memory bandwidth	320 GB/s (352 GB/s)	256 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s (216 GB/s)
Power supply	8-pin	8-pin	8-pin	6-pin
TDP	180 W	180 W	150 W	120 W
Rec. Award*	499 USD	429 USD	379 USD	249 USD

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In terms of specifications, this is the GP104 graphics circuit with only one SMX cluster disabled, which together with high clock frequencies means that on paper it is very close to GTX 1080 in terms of performance. This is partially offset by the fact that the GTX 1070 Ti is not equipped with the same fast GDDR5X memory, but stays at 8 GB GDDR5.

Now new data suggests that Nvidia does not intend to make the GTX 1070 Ti the obviously more desirable alternative over the more expensive GTX 1080. This by not allowing partner manufacturers to factory overclock the model and thus cement its performance inferior to the GTX 1080.

The news comes from two independent reports by Eteknix and Expreview, both of which have been in talks with manufacturers. There is also talk that Nvidia may completely lock out the possibility of manual overclocking, a move that would be completely unparalleled in the market.

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It is not clear whether overclocking for end users will be locked down and how Nvidia would proceed to achieve this. The most obvious thing is that the company installs some form of software restriction, either in the graphics card’s BIOS or in Nvidia’s Geforce drivers.

It is also rumored that the Geforce GTX 1070 Ti will be announced on October 26, which will be followed by a store availability on November 2. The price is expected to be 429 USD, corresponding to approximately SEK 4,300 including VAT.