Averages 38 FPS at 1440p over our 9-game suite, anchored estimate · 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles
38 Avg FPS Includes estimates
Estimated, not measured. Every figure here is derived from our first-party results on comparable cards, and it will be replaced the day this one runs. Across our 9-game suite at 1440p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 averages 38 FPS. The ceiling is Counter-Strike 2 at 71 FPS; the floor is Alan Wake 2 at 12 FPS, a 5.9x spread that tells you how engine-dependent this class of card is. In practical terms that means 1080p gaming, 1440p is a stretch outside older titles. Under load we logged a peak of 144W against the 150W rating.
| Benchmark | Result | 1% Low | VRAM Used | Power | Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyberpunk 2077 1440p · Ultra | 28 FPS | 22 | 6.75 GB | 142 W | Estimated |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 1440p · Favor Quality | 32 FPS | 24 | 6.57 GB | 140 W | Estimated |
| Alan Wake 2 1440p · High | 12 FPS | 10 | 7.36 GB | 138 W | Estimated |
| Baldur's Gate 3 1440p · Ultra | 41 FPS | 34 | 7 GB | 144 W | Estimated |
| Black Desert Online 1440p · Remastered | 52 FPS | 33 | 5.29 GB | 142 W | Estimated |
| Counter-Strike 2 1440p · Very High | 71 FPS | 39 | 7.13 GB | 120 W | Estimated |
| Diablo 4 1440p · Ultra | 44 FPS | 34 | 7.36 GB | 141 W | Estimated |
| Escape from Tarkov 1440p · Ultra | 34 FPS | 25 | 7.36 GB | 129 W | Estimated |
| The Witcher 3 1440p · Ultra | 29 FPS | 24 | 7.05 GB | 142 W | Estimated |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| CUDA cores | 1,920 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 256-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 256 GB/s |
| Boost clock | 1,683 MHz |
| TDP | 150 W |
| Process | 16nm |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Release date | 2016-06-10 |
| Launch MSRP | $379 |
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 averages 38 FPS at 1440p on our suite. Estimated, not measured. Every figure here is derived from our first-party results on comparable cards, and it will be replaced the day this one runs.
100% = this card, Gaming headline metric (Avg FPS). #68 of 82 desktop cards in this vertical.
| GPU | Relative | % | Avg FPS |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 | 124% | 47 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6600 | 121% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | 121% | 46 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti | 118% | 45 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 | 100% | 38 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti | 92% | 35 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti | 89% | 34 | |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super | 82% | 31 | |
| AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT | 79% | 30 |
| Transistors | 7,200 million |
| Die size | 314 mm² |
| Process node | 16 nm |
| Fabricated by | TSMC |
| Transistor density | 22.9 million per mm² |
Denser than 62% of the 746 cards we have silicon data for. Density is the clearest measure of what a process node bought: a card that gained it without growing the die got its speed from the fab rather than the architecture.
Silicon figures from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Benchmarks on this page are our own. Compare every chip.
This card is $379 to buy. The cheapest listed rate on Vast.ai is $0.049/hour, but that is the floor: we budget $0.059/hour, a 20% premium, because idle time, storage and unavailable cheap instances all land on the same bill. At that rate buying wins after 6,446 GPU-hours. Below it you are paying for idle silicon.
| How you would use it | GPU-hours a year | Rental cost a year | Time to break even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 hours a day, hobby | 730 | $43 | 8.8 years |
| 8 hours a day, working on it | 2,920 | $172 | 2.2 years |
| 24/7, always-on agent | 8,760 | $515 | 8.8 months |
At hobby usage this card is very unlikely to pay for itself before it is superseded. Rent it. Rental figures include a 20% premium over the cheapest listed rate. Ignores electricity, resale and the fact that a rented card can be a newer one tomorrow.
Cheapest of the RunPod and Vast on-demand rates we see, sampled daily. Spot and interruptible pricing runs lower.