Tuesday, November 1st 2016
MSI Announces the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Graphics Card
MSI today unveiled the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Edition graphics card. Going purely by the factory-overclock on offer, the card appears to be positioned below the GTX 1070 Gaming X graphics card by the company, although one can expect the company to monetize its unique design. The company also has a slightly pricier OC Edition variant of this card, which is identical to the GTX 1070 Gaming X in terms of factory-overclock. The card is characterized by a metallic silver color-scheme that's consistent with the company's GTX 1080 30th Anniversary Edition graphics card, and Gaming Titanium series motherboards, such as the X99A XPower Gaming Titanium. Shimmery silver accents run through bits of the Twin Frozr VI cooler shroud where you'd normally expect fiery red from the Gaming X, while the back-plate is entirely silver, with an illuminated MSI Gaming logo ornament.
The card comes with a factory-overclock of 1518 MHz core and 1708 MHz GPU Boost in Gaming Mode, and 1531 MHz core with 1721 MHz GPU Boost in OC Mode; which is below the factory-overclock of the GTX 1070 Gaming X, which comes with 1582/1771 MHz in Gaming Mode and 1607/1797 MHz in OC Mode, and barely above NVIDIA reference clocks of 1506/1683 MHz. The OC Edition variant, on the other hand, ships with identical clock speeds to the GTX 1070 Gaming X. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Based on the 16 nm "GP104" silicon, the GeForce GTX 1070 features 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.00 GHz, across a 256-bit wide memory interface. MSI didn't reveal pricing.
The card comes with a factory-overclock of 1518 MHz core and 1708 MHz GPU Boost in Gaming Mode, and 1531 MHz core with 1721 MHz GPU Boost in OC Mode; which is below the factory-overclock of the GTX 1070 Gaming X, which comes with 1582/1771 MHz in Gaming Mode and 1607/1797 MHz in OC Mode, and barely above NVIDIA reference clocks of 1506/1683 MHz. The OC Edition variant, on the other hand, ships with identical clock speeds to the GTX 1070 Gaming X. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Based on the 16 nm "GP104" silicon, the GeForce GTX 1070 features 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.00 GHz, across a 256-bit wide memory interface. MSI didn't reveal pricing.
20 Comments on MSI Announces the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Graphics Card
But the cheap looking logo kinda ruins the back plate (as it does to everything it is slapped on). It should be more subtle, perhaps monochromatic in grey...
It sticks out like a sore thumb.
[triggered]
the armor cooler/theme was introduced with the 960, 970 and 980.
ok that one has no backplate (although it hold close to the Gaming X variant performances wise, same PCB a lil less beefy )
solution to the no backplate ... I've finally found one (errr a couple of weeks ago ... ) :
which feature the old box design of the 9XX series (which was neater than the 10XX :laugh: )
the only things that Quick silver has that would make me want it, would be the Twin Frozr VI cooler ... (nonethtless the Armor 2X is already good enough)
ok ... that one is more silver and black than black and white ... but it's not the 1st neutral theme from MSI :pwell ...on that .... i couldn't agree more ...
Now if only MSI would start handing it out to their existing customers we could all be happy bunnies.