ASUS STRIX GAMING GTX 1070 OC Graphics Card Review

Overclocking and Overclocked Performance

The dynamic nature of GPU Boost 3.0 causes the boost clock to fluctuate depending on voltages, the power limit and thermal restrictions. This means it’s quite common for a product’s boost to easily exceed the quoted specification. Subsequently, I endeavour to monitor the boost clock when running the graphics at its stock configuration before doing a direct comparison after manual overclocking. While utilising the OC profile, the graphics card managed an average boost clock of 1978MHz and the memory reached 2002.9MHz. This is a pretty solid effort when you consider the modest 1.0450v reading.

Despite applying the maximum allowed voltage increase, I couldn’t get the boost clock to surpass 1878MHz. As you can see, the 1878MHz boost constitutes to a small 18MHz enhancement. To be honest, the factory overclock is already near the core’s full potential which limits the overclocking headroom by a large degree. On a more positive note, the memory coped rather well with a mammoth 480MHz increase.

Now the graphics card has been overclocked, the boost clock dramatically increased to 2021.7MHz. Not only that, the memory operated at an impressive 2124MHz using a voltage of 1.0817v. This was made possible without a major rise in the noise output or load temperatures.

Here a screenshot comparing the stock OC profile and manual overclock:

Doom

Once overclocked, the ASUS STRIX GAMING GTX 1070 OC performed much better and there was a huge boost in the minimum frame-rate. Additionally, the overclock makes enough of a difference for the product to surpass its closest rival.

Far Cry Primal

Here we can see the graphics card enjoys a 2 frames-per-second average boost and posts almost identical figures as the Palit GameRock Premium GTX 1070.

Hitman

During the Hitman benchmark, the overclocked graphics card exhibited marvellous performance gains and fell just shy of 100 frames-per-second.