PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 OC 8GB Review

By increasing the power threshold to its maximum level (112%), we were able to squeeze an extra 100MHz out of the card's core and we increased the memory speed by 300MHz in MSI Afterburner to 8.6Gbps effective.

These increases are small but the PNY GTX 1070 XLR8 OC is already overclocked by around 100MHz out of the box.

The actual GPU Core clock hovered around 1924-1970MHz during 4K gaming which is only around 20-50MHz higher than the resultant GPU Boost 3.0 core clock at stock levels. This is a little disappointing but it is the nature of the GPU Boost 3.0 beast.

Despite the slim increase in the real-world GPU core clock, a boost to the memory speed helped to provide extra performance in 4K tests. Gears of War 4 jumped from 37.8 FPS to 40.2 FPS average, which represents an increase of just over 6%. Average frame rates in Rise of the Tomb Raider rose by just over 8%.

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