NVIDIA's GTX 1070 seems to be the perfect alternative for the GTX 1080 with a significantly cheaper price tag but with just a small gap in the recent 3DMark benchmark performance results.
The benchmarking tool has been a point of reference for gamers everywhere when they want to know how powerful their video card is. New results have come up and the GTX 1070 does not fall far behind from the GTX 1080.
Both video cards have not yet been released yet. However, reviews and benchmarks are already surfacing throughout the Internet.
Most of the time, the budget versions of flagship video cards offer significantly less power compared to their bigger brothers. The NVIDIA GTX 1070 is cheaper by more than $200 but the performance is not a huge leap from the GTX 1080.
This gives budget-conscious PC gamers a good choice that would not be so much of a compromise compared to the previous generations. In addition, it was also revealed that it was still more powerful than the GTX 980 Ti and the GTX Titan X, which costs $999.
NVIDIA's GTX 1070 video card features the new GP104 GPU with 1920 CUDA cores, WCCFTech reported. It also uses the new and improved Pascal GPU architecture compared with the GTX 980's Maxwell architecture.
In the 3DMark FireStrike benchmarks that were leaked, it was shown that the GTX 1080 alternative was better in the Performance (1080p), Extreme (1440p) and Ultra (2160p) modes of the benchmarking tool.
The GTX 1070 even beat the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X. There was also just a 24 percent difference when compared to the GTX 1080, Videocardz has learned.
While the difference between the GTX 1070 and the GTX Titan X is not really huge, it should be noted that the former has a cheaper price tag and lower power consumption of 150W compared to the former which has 250W.
The VRAM difference is also negligible considering that a user can just stack two cards in SLI mode to beat the GTX Titan X. Two of the cards are still cheaper at less than $800.
NVIDIA will be releasing the GTX 1070 on June at a price of $379 while the GTX 1080 will be launched on May 27 at $599. Third-party video cards could still be cheaper after a few months.