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[PCG] You might not be able to overclock Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

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Eteknix says it heard from an "industry insider" that the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will not support overclocking in any way, shape, or form.
I can see Nvidia thinking about doing it, but I don't see them actually doing it.
 
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Maybe because once oc'ed it will be faster than a GTX 1080 and nobody will buy them anymore. From a marketing point of view it's possible.
 
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Originally Posted by Yetyhunter View Post

Maybe because once oc'ed it will be faster than a GTX 1080 and nobody will buy them anymore. From a marketing point of view it's possible.
If you can overclock a 1070 ti, what stops you from overclocking a 1080? Jesus or his dad?
To me it just looks like an answer to the vega 56.
 
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Originally Posted by SpykeZ View Post

Not like we can really overclock their 1080/ti cars either lol
Theres not much control but I still overclocked mine over 200MHz higher than what it'll boost to on its own.
 
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Originally Posted by Defoler View Post

To me it just looks like an answer to the vega 56.
Not really an "answer" imo. The 1070 is over a year old and close enough, they could have just called it a day until the next gen. More like "Look AMD, we don't even have to design something new and just release a beefed up 1070 to beat your new card."
 
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Pretty sure this was clarified to mean there won't be any pre-overclocked AIB cards, but software overclocked will still work as usual.
 
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Originally Posted by PontiacGTX View Post

wait how is 1080 being matched by a Vega 56 then
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I'm still waiting for AIB Vega cards.

What about you ?
 
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Originally Posted by Yetyhunter View Post

Maybe because once oc'ed it will be faster than a GTX 1080 and nobody will buy them anymore. From a marketing point of view it's possible.
That's probably the entire reason.
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Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
 
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Originally Posted by Imglidinhere View Post

That's probably the entire reason.
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Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
I remember having an x800GTO that you could unlock extra shader cores or something by connecting tracers by drawing a line on the pcb with a pencil
 
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Originally Posted by skafo View Post

Not really an "answer" imo. The 1070 is over a year old and close enough, they could have just called it a day until the next gen. More like "Look AMD, we don't even have to design something new and just release a beefed up 1070 to beat your new card."
I'm not sure but they could just have enough cores not passing 1080 requirement to call them 1070 ti. Use as many cores as they can instead of throwing them away.
That way they have a vega answer, get some extra money, and be more efficient while getting ready for Volta in 6-8 months from now.
 
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Originally Posted by Defoler View Post

I'm not sure but they could just have enough cores not passing 1080 requirement to call them 1070 ti. Use as many cores as they can instead of throwing them away.
This is exactly it. A 1080 requires all 20 SMs physically present on the GP104 chip to be functioning properly, so if even 1 SM fails then it currently has to be relegated to the 15 SM 1070 and have 4 "good" SMs wastefully lasered off. It's much better to let those "near misses" be used to their full capacity, not to mention that it will provide a minor refresh to the Pascal line while the Volta consumer cards get prepared for market (presumably for Q2 2018).
 
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I get like 50mhz at most over boost on my 1070. i doubt they would disable overclocking lol
 
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Couldn't decide on what to get next to replace my fried out 290x. Vega 56 looks good but over priced and 1070 seems also over priced, 1060 isn't much of an upgrade so it looks like I'll be in the 400 dollar price range after all.

If I'm in the 400s for a graphics card what is another 30,40 or 50 bucks might as well try to find a 1070 ti. That's a real upgrade to me
 
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What this problem means is no more XOC BIOS and not more shunt resistors that can be bypassed.
 
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Originally Posted by Imglidinhere View Post

That's probably the entire reason.
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Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
Now we got people with programmers to unlock the TDP of their pascal MXM cards to achieve their overclocks.

Though not being able to flash vBIOS is still limiting things.
 
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I was considering waiting to upgrade my R9 390 for a 1070ti later next year, but no overclock = no buy. Prices on Vega 56 will have likely tanked to $350 range by then.
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Originally Posted by Mattbag View Post

Couldn't decide on what to get next to replace my fried out 290x. Vega 56 looks good but over priced and 1070 seems also over priced, 1060 isn't much of an upgrade so it looks like I'll be in the 400 dollar price range after all.

If I'm in the 400s for a graphics card what is another 30,40 or 50 bucks might as well try to find a 1070 ti. That's a real upgrade to me
The RX 580 is basically a triple refresh of the 290x. Extremely negligible increase in performance, it's toe to toe in most games, or the 580 is 10% better. Considering how old the 290x is, that's sad and really underscores how sorry AMD is as a competitor in the GPU market.
 
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