Today, we’ll be taking a look at the Inno3D Chill GeForce GTX 1070 X4 with 8GB GDDR5 vram. A big thank you goes out to Inno3D for providing us with this review sample.
The iChill X4 GTX 1070’s GPU has a base clock of 1620MHz rising to a boost clock of 1822MHz. It is cooled by their impressive iChill X4 cooling solution using 3 fans with scythe blades, which they call PDCS (Power Direct Cooling System). It also comes with GPU load indicators – Red for Full Gear Gaming, Green for Lower Power Gaming and Blue for Low Power Application.
With a price difference of around HK$2200 with its older brother, the iChill X4 GTX 1080, the iChill X4 GTX 1070 might just be perfect for those that want top quality gaming without having to fork out a premium for top-end hardware.
Here’s a quick comparison of the GeForce GTX 10 series from Nvidia (default clock speeds)…
| GeForce GTX 1080 | GeForce GTX 1070 | GeForce GTX 1060 | GeForce GTX 980 | |
| Architecture | Pascal | Pascal | Pascal | Maxwell |
| CUDA Cores | 2560 | 1920 | 1280 | 2048 |
| Frame Buffer | 8GB GDDR5 / GDDR5X | 8GB GDDR5 | 6GB GDDR5 | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Base Clock Speed | 1607 MHz |
1506 MHz |
1506 MHz |
1126 MHz |
| Boost Clock Speed | 1733 MHz | 1683 MHz |
1708 MHz |
1216 MHz |
| Memory Speed | 10Gbps | 8 Gbps | 8 Gbps | 7Gbps |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit | 192-bit | 256-bit |
| DX12 Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vulkan API | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Let’s have a quick look at the technical specifications of the iChill X4 GTX 1070 and it’s features. Buy the iChill GTX 1070 Twin X2 version at Amazon – https://goo.gl/NwEIu6
