The Gigabyte GTX 1070 Gaming G1 features the Windforce x3 cooler, graced with an orange and black color scheme. This is odd as the card does feature a RGB lighting feature, once again throwing off your ability to customize your color scheme like the MSI Gaming X edition.
Display ports include 3 display port 1.4 ports, a single hdmi 2.0b port and single dual link dvi. Next we have a single 8pin power adapter sporting a 6+2 Power Phase, which is an upgrade from the Founder’s Edition 4+1 but short of the 8+1 featured on MSI’s Gaming X. However, the power draw is upped from the founder’s edition to match the Gaming X.
Under the hood the card sports an advertised 1822mhz, while in the real world it boosts to 1962MHz without touching an overclocking tool. With a little tweaking the card will overclock to 2050MHz. The boost clock communicates over a 256bit bus with 8gb of gddr5 at a clock of 8000Mhz, add 8MHz if you want to be an asshole like their website advertising.
The cooling solution works great. If you are so inclined to crank the fans they reach 20db over ambient room noise (in my case 30db) With stock fan profile set the card hit a max temperature of 67 degrees Celsius.
While the Gigabyte Gaming G1 edition has proven to outpace the reference design, it falls short of other 3rd party non reference designs. However, it is cheaper than the reference designs that beat it out. So it’s up to you where to put that ten dollar bill you save picking this over the competition.
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