Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
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Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Benchmark and Specs

All technical data and various benchmarks of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition are listed on this page. The graphics card is based on the GP104-200-A1 (Pascal) graphics chip, which is manufactured with a structure width of 16 nm. The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition can operate up to 4 screens with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 become.
FP32
6.46TFLOPS
Boost Clock
1.68GHz
Memory
8GB GDDR5
TDP
150 W

Technical details

GPU

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition has 15 execution units with 1920 shaders. This gives the graphics card a theoretical FP32 computing power of 6.46 TFLOPS.

GPU Chip
GP104-200-A1 (Pascal)
Streaming Multiprocessors
15
Shader
1920
Render Output Units
64
Texture Units
120

Memory

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is equipped with 8 GB graphics memory of the type GDDR5. The memory clock of the graphics card is 2.002 GHz and the speed is 8 Gbps.

Memory Size
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.002 GHz
Memory Speed
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit

Clock Speeds

The base frequency of this graphics card is 1.506 GHz and the manufacturer specifies the maximum turbo clock as 1.683 GHz. If supported (see below), the performance can be further increased by overclocking.

Base Clock
1.506 GHz
Boost Clock
1.683 GHz
Overclocking
Yes

Thermal Design

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 150 W.

TDP
150 W
Tjunction max
94 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

Graphics processor and graphics memory of the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition are cooled by a Air cooling.

Fan-Type
Radial
Fan 1
1 x 70 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB / Silent

Connectivity

Up to 4 monitors can be operated with the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition.

Max. Displays
4
HDCP
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
3x DP 1.4
DVI
1

Featureset

With the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition it is possible to operate a screen with a resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels. Furthermore, the DirectX standard version 12_1 is supported.

Max. resolution
7680x4320
DirectX
12_1
Raytracing
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
LED
No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists the video codecs that the Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition can decode or encode in hardware in order to minimize the processor load, which leads to lower power consumption.

h264
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
VP9
Decode
AV1
No

Dimensions

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in a case. It is 267 mm long, 112 mm high and -- wide.

Length
267 mm
Height
112 mm
Width (Slots)
2 PCIe-Slots
SFF-Ready
No

Additional data

The Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition was released in Q2/2016 at a price of 379 $. The graphics card manufactured in 16 nm is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes.

GPU Interface
PCIe 3.0 x 16
Release date
Q2/2016
Launch Price
379 $ (Reference)
Structure size
16 nm
Part-no
426018336-3637
Documents
data sheet
Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition
1.506 GHz · 8 GB · 150 W TDP
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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score Rank 4,140 / 5,633

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    2,741
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    2,828

Port Royal (Raytracing) Rank 3,983 / 4,176

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    1,214
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    1,252

Battlefield 5

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3840x2160 (2160p) Rank 3,562 / 4,595

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    34 fps (avg)
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    43 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p) Rank 3,596 / 4,594

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    65 fps (avg)
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    79 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p) Rank 3,494 / 4,601

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    92 fps (avg)
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    100 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL Rank 4,050 / 5,255

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    45,783
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    47,549

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan Rank 4,051 / 5,233

  1. Gainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders EditionGainward GeForce GTX 1070 Founders Edition8 GB GDDR5
    48,569
  2. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Average of gpu group
    51,640

MonkeyBench 2026.2 · browser GPU test

Average of 1 public MonkeyBench results (WebGPU) for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070.

116GPU points (Ø)
Rank 64 / 130 · in the MonkeyBench GPU ranking

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