Pascal is probably the greatest generation of GPUs that Nvidia has ever made. They're still relevant and packing a punch even 5-6 years later.

I maintain this opinion to this day. For the money, the time they came out and how long they stayed on top... The 1070 and 1080 are the best cards nvidia have ever made. They havent tried that hard, in years.

Still have my GTX 1070 in my main setup for over 5 years and i still love it, was and is still a good card.

Still remember the day it came out. It was an incredible upgrade compare to its predecessor GTX 970 and it got 8GB of VRAM on top of that. Still capable to this day and probably 2 or 3 years more. Sadly new NVDIA cards just don't offer the same upgrade as this anymore. Anything new just use more power rather than real technology improvement at this point.

Dell have one of the biggest supply chain infrastructures of any computing company. They like to optimize everywhere. I'd imagine that they actually own their own printed circuit board facility and that facility uses the least number of different material possible. Every Dell PCB I've ever seen has been the exact same color. When you're dealing with billions of boards, using all exactly the same raw materials has to be a huge savings. A company that only deals with tens of thousands of boards at a time wont optimize down to the quarter penny, so board color doesn't mean as much.

The 1070 will forever stay one of my favourite cards together with the 970 and hd4870 tbh, i have bought mine last year and overpaid massively (£270 for a boxed evga card but the guy threw in a 6th gen i5 + board + ram for £30) and it was the best thing ive ever did as it got me into gaming after a break and only playing cs on potatos

The 1070 easily had the widest use and longest ‘life’ than any other GPU in history. It was a great value then, and still a great value now.

This card has aged incredibly well. Anyone who bought one of these back in 2016 hit the jackpot.

I had a 1070ti for a few years, upgraded to an EVGA 1080ti earlier this year once prices stated to fall purely because that card was gorgeous and wanted it. Still absolute beasts both of them, so much so the EVGA 3080 I found felt like less of an upgrade. Pascal/10 series best cards they've ever made price to performance looks etc

Bought my MSI GTX1070 Armor for 130$ 3 years ago, still does the job for my needs @1080p75hz. It's silent, cool, overclocks and undervolts nicely.

A couple weeks ago I had a customer contact me about a prebuilt CyberpowerPC computer they had bought online about a year ago that couldn't play any of the modern games they wanted to play smoothly at 1080P (some games he said wouldn't even load) so he had stopped using the PC altogether. Upon inspection, I learned the prebuilt had come with a GT 1030 2GB card, a single stick of 8GB 3000Mhz ram & a low-performing Ryzen processor. The client wanted to upgrade the computer to 32GB of ram, a minimum of an RTX 3060 & upgrade to the fastest Ryzen processor that would work for his machine. The problem came when his budget was limited to a maximum of $500 which became even more of a limitation when he also revealed that both the hard drives had failed (a 256GB SSD & a 1TB mechanical drive, the problem was traced to a faulty power supply as well as all the sata ports on the motherboard had died). Long story short, I upgraded the ram to 32GB of Corsair Vengence 3600Mhz, installed a 500GB NVME SSD, exchanged the power supply for a 750-watt Corsair bronze power supply & installed a Zotac GTX 1070 Ti mini 8GB card (I had to install Park Control to take care of the CPU bottleneck because the motherboard was bad for overclocking). I also upgraded the CPU cooler to a Vetroo V5 plus added a couple 120mm RGB case fans with an RGB fan controller. When I returned the computer to the client he was beyond happy to be able to compete at decent framerates at 1080P with the same computer that he had struggled to be able to even start some games just the day before (original work order for the computer was to just get it to boot which I did by installing the NVME then he wanted to fix the framerate issue). The GTX 1070 is still a very good GPU, I still have a GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 installed in my daughter's computer which competes pretty close to that of an RTX 3060.

Gonna chime in here too. I've had my Strix OC GTX 1070 for maybe 3 or 4 years now, and has been in my i5 4570 rig and now my current Ryzen 5 3600 build I made in 2020. Honestly cannot forsee upgrading it at any point in the near future. My case has enough airflow to keep it cool and it almost never gets near full utilisation anyway. Lasted longer than any GPU I've had before it and likely after it. 8GB of VRAM on a 2016 xx70 card is a godsend

Agree with everyone, Pascal cards were great Great performance, price was decent and large VRAM buffers which helped them a lot to age gracefully

Still rocking my own GTX 1070 I bought in 2017. Great for 1440p leisure gaming or 1080p tripple-A. So far, it still runs every game I throw at it.

correction - less fans means blower fan has to run faster to achieve same ammount of airflow as the other fans would meaning it will make more noise.

got a 1080ti years ago for 400 Euro. Put it on Water , Overclocked it and it still runs great till today and im on 2k Res! I wanted to buy a 3080 back then and now prob. the 40 series but since prices are up im super glad i can just wait it out :)

I got a refurb 1070 in 2019 for only $200usd. It has served me well but I am hoping for an upgrade this winter. I've been spoiled by high refresh rates which is getting more difficult to push in newer titles such as Cyberpunk and Horizon: Zero Dawn. Great video! Keep it up.

I agree -- a decent and underappreciated card. For my new system, I got an MSI 1080 Ti and it's great!

I'm still using my GTX 1080 Ti, though it has started showing its age, it can throw punches at 1440p with little issues at high settings 60fps! Eventually I'll get a new GPU, but roughly 4 years, still going strong!

I had a 1080 TI Dell OEM also based on the MSI AERO version. That thing overclocked great.

1070 is a great card. It performs no worse than 1660 super.👍

I got a 1070 ti for about £270 just as covid hit and just before the prices went through the roof. Excellent card which lasted me until last week when I replaced it with a 2070 super which I got for £250. I'm extremely pleased with this one.

The GTX 1070 will always be very special to me. It was the graphics card in my first real gaming PC and really got me into PC gaming.

I'm still rocking a 1050ti since I don't game too much anymore, and I've noticed these popping up for good prices, so this is a very relevant video for me. Just reading the comments, it seems like a good direction for me.

1060,1070 were the best cards for the general consumer. As well as a nod to the amd 470,570 even though I had problems trying to get them. Even the humble 1050ti for when it came out is the standard of what a 75 watt entry level GPU should be.

I have the MSI Aero version of this card. I love it! Managed to overclock it to around 1930mhz on the core and +500mhz on the memory @ .09v

I bought an EVGA SC version of GTX 1070, in August of 2016. Kept it for 2 full years before I sell it and buy a GTX 1080Ti. I regret every second, selling this card cos it would be awesome in my girlfriend's PC (she is left with an RX 460). An extraordinary generation of GPUs, Pascal!

i have a used evga 1070 (from 1050ti) in my rig at 1440p, shit still really holds up well in 2022. pascal has got to be one of the most legendary architectures by nvidia ever

I was rocking the 1070 from 2016 till 2021. A great 1080p card.

I used mine for nearly 4 years and just bought the 3060 because of the VRAM (work stuff). Honestly, I'd still be using the 1070 if it wasn't for work; the performance is not that different if you ignore the DLSS possibility.

My mATX gaming PC has a Zotac GTX 1070 mini paired with a I7 7700K CPU. With high price on electricity in the EU and the current gen of CPUs and GPUs use a lot of power, I will still use my PC many years to come. I´m happy to get 60 FPS in 1080p medium settings in the games I play.

Haha your dog heard the word "play," didn't he? But yeah, I was slightly envious of my friends who bought the GTX 1070 back when they were new since I had *only* a GTX 1050 Ti. And to the best of my knowledge, they're STILL using their 1070s for 1080p gaming on modern titles like Elden Ring without any need to upgrade. Amazing. That may have been part of the reason why I got a gaming laptop with an RTX 3070 Ti... I wanted that NVIDIA xx70 experience, and I can be fairly confident that it'll still be kicking in the next 6 years.

RX 580 8gb user here, happy with my 580, I'd say not too far from the 1070, I don't care for any frames higher than 60 since everything I play is single player. If I may suggest an idea, maybe make a video about upgrade paths for people with older cards, like from 570-570 or 1060 to something, from 1050 or 1050ti 1650, rx 560, gtx 970, etc, upgrades that won't break the bank.

I’m still running a Zotac OEM 1070, it’s a great 1080p card that gives me 80-100 fps, sometimes even more depending on the game.

Shuch a chill feeling watching one of your videos on a sunday afternoon, keep up the great work!

I still own a GTX 1080ti and can play basically any game max settings at 1080p, I bought a GTX 1070 back when it released brand new for 449 and I was absolutely blown away by it's performance. Pascal jump in performance was insane and the GTX 1080ti was basically a whole generation ahead.

The 1070 always was, and still is, a great card; holds up extremely well

Just bought this card this year replacing my broken RX 470. Man, it is indeed a huge upgrade for me. Although I've been wanting RX 6600, but I got this 1070 instead since my budget was so strict. I got 83fps+ on Forza Horizon 5 with High/Low/Extreme mixed settings. The only setting that I set on Extreme is the World Level of Car Detail lol.

The green lacquer is actually cheaper, and surprisingly more strong and reliable. Matt black finish is very easy to peel off and scratch despite fancy looks. So in OEM machines it's actually a good choice

The 1070 was the first big upgrade I did to my pc back in the day. I went from a 1050 ti to an MSI GTX 1070 OC edition and didn't regret it at all.

I still have this as a backup and it's still a great 1080p card! 🙂

The 1070 was and always will be one of my favorite cards simply due to the fact that it was a great card at the time and was my first Nvidia card. Since then, I’ve yet to put another AMD card in my main PC. To my knowledge, that 1070 I got years ago is likely still running today because I haven’t heard any complaints from the person I sold it to.

I recently bought a used Msi Armor OC GTX 1070 for 150 euros and it's working great with my Ryzen 3 4300GE. I upgraded from a Vega 6 integrated graphics and oh boy is it an upgrade

I got my 1070 FE when everyone was dumping mining cards back in 2019 for $199. Fan was burnt out from high uptime but got another FE cooler for $10 and it worked great. Sold it earlier this year for $199, timing worked out rather nicely.

I had a Zotac 1070 Mini from 2017 until about 2021 and it was a brilliant card. Only problem was that it gets very loud on the fans. My PC would sometimes sound like an aeroplane taking off! 😂

I got 1060 and not planning to change it anytime soon, so 1070 is totally fine in 2022

In my personal rig I have a Gtx 1070 Armor from Msi, I bought it this year for my video and gaming editions at $150 dollars. It's an excellent graphic, it may be 6 years old, but it's still fighting, I'm not going to change it for a long time. Greetings from Argentina.

I JUST got the GTX 1070 and you manage to make a video about it, I swear you're a mind reader

1070 For $150 is the ultimate bargain now , also seeing good condition gtx 970s for $80 make both great budget options all day long , i was always a big fan of the pascal and Maxwell GPUS seems like after those generations NVidia went from greedy to ridiculously greedy

Pascal is a prime example of Nvidia deliberately holding back the performance of former and future GPU's.

The fact that you have a almost half a million subs just goes to show how interested people are at getting into PC's at a entry level.

Maxwell upgrade from Kepler is a huge step in solving power hungry issue, and Pascal one more time did that with both Power efficiency and Performance. Imagine a GTX 1070 uses the same 8 pin and draws 150W TDP as GTX 970 but performance is nearly +70% faster, we can praise Pascal architecture for its greatness. Turing is not so impressive even with RTRT while a 2060 draws the same power with only +10% performance, cut off 2GB of VRAM

ive never seen a 1070 with a green pcb, lol

steve i like your forehead

Remember that awkward period when near-all PCBs were blue? I do. I miss that lol

i bought one from ebay won a bid on a EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Hybrid Gaming 8GB GPU to upgrade my old computer AMD FX series cpu am3 motherboard , had to create extra space for the rad/fan so far it plays pretty good for the day to day use and stays pretty cool

It's Sept 2022, and I'm still having tons of fun with my GTX 1070.

I know someone that has the MSI Seahawk 1070, a hybrid between air and water-cooling. It runs very cool. It's impressive to what most pascal cards can still do in modern games, truly a great generation of GPUs.

I love how he used my exact system to test. 12400, 1070, 16gb. Still solid

Still have a 1070 myself, don't see myself upgrading anytime soon. I have a pretty nice one variant as well, the Gainward Phoenix GS, overclocks really well and easily sits in the low 60s for temps with completely inaudible fans. Super happy with it. I'll probably still get another 2 years out of it before I start thinking of upgrading.

Still rocking a 1070ti with a 12700k/32gb ddr4. Spiderman remastered works just fine at 1080p 60fps lock and very high settings. Rarely dips low. The gpu is undervolted and overclocked

Bought mine brand new in 2019. Snow white ASUS Dual w latest firmware from the sealed box. It even capable of higher frame rates for my new 165 hz monitor. Love it

I still have my cheap ass KFA2 GTX 1070! Most games I play are indie or older AAA games and run them at mid to high at 1440p no problem. I swear I picked that baby up for a price where it legit felt like pocket change. It was like 200€ or something like that and it's one of the best purchases I ever made. Absolute no brainer

Rocking a EVGA 1080Ti SC2 in my build Pascal has to be one of the most greatest GPU generations to ever exist no need to upgrade yet!

Eyyy, I'm still rockin the Jetstream 1070 - cool to have GPU. Thanks for the great vid cheers 👍

I literally just bought a gtx 1080ti 4 days ago and it plays everything I want to play at maxed or almost maxed framerates. The "old" 10 series is still doing good for their age.

Built my cousin a PC with Dell 1080 of this exact model in H1 2020 he has been gaming on it 6-8 hours everyday since, still solid

I just bought a EVGA 1070 FTW Hybrid from my friend for $150 and I love it, I'll probably want to upgrade it in a few years but for being my first GPU in my first Gaming PC I'm so happy with it because I've wanted a gaming PC my whole life and it runs the games I want to play very well

GTX 1060 and GTX 1070 and 1080 are legendary One of the most legendary series ever....

I have been using my 1070 quite happily for years. Always surprised how well it handles newer games.

I only recently upgraded to a 3070. Simply because some games were starting to struggle to reach 60fps on high, which is the bare minimum I want. But the 1070 is one I will forever remember.

Green PCB is the cheapest to make. The color is due to the polymer compound that covers the PCB, basically solder mask. Green is simply the cheapest, along with brown. Black and other colors cost extra, so when they want to make a board with no frills you'll often see green. Probably only a few cents per unit in cost difference, but when you make thousands or millions of them it adds up.

I have the Asus Turbo TI version of this card as my main card and it's still kicking almost 5 years later runs everything for me perfectly

From what I understand it's green because that's the colour of the plastic after it's produced. It's not dyed so it is ever so cheaper. That's why green PCB's are super common in lots of cheap electronics or cheap Chinese hardware a lot of the time.

Still a solid card for sure, my daughter is still running my old Strix 1070 in her rig with no complaints :)

Just bought a used 1070 for around 160€ (Germany here) as an upgrade for my photo editing rig. More than happy with the performance. Seems like I could also use it as a decent replacement should the GPU in my gaming rig decide to stop working :D

1070 was my dream card bacak then... my friend had one of these beast and its mind blowing even today

Proud owner of a 1070! 😁 Almost ended being this model actually

I can see you really like to play Spider-Man with those cinematic movements

recently swapped mine out for a 3070 as the 1070 was struggling with vr titles. if i wasnt in vr so often i would have never switched, the 1070 is an amazing card for desktop performance

thanks to the green pcb and the blower I got my 1080 for like 200€ in 2020 runs great

Main reason Pascal was relevant for this long is that the PS4/Xone era lasted for quite a while and it kept games's requirements low enough that a 1070 or even a 1060 would be able to play anything at 1080p60. I have the feeling the 20 series will be relevant for longer, but maybe not at 1440p.

As somebody who just sold his old 1060 to a family needing for a mid range card, the 1070 is also a great choice if you stick to 1080p medium. In some PS4 era games it can even go all the way to high

150W TDP is impressive even today considering the age of the product and the performance. Mid range card power draw is alarmingly creeping up and that's no bueno with the energy prices.

I upgraded from a 1060 to a 1070 earlier this year when the cards became cheaper, I got it because my 1060 was struggling at 4K and the 1070 really pushes above its own class. I can't think of a game which I can't run at 60 fps other than Hunt showdown. It's really easy to play games at 4K if you just take a moment to turn down the unoptimized settings which bog down even high-end cards, i.e. Ambient occlusion. It's also well-suited for GPU inference tasks thanks to the 8gb of VRAM, making it a cheap offer for decent AI workloads.

Pal, for the past 3 months since I bought a gtx 1070, your channel was missing this video. You got your hands back on the card! It's a shame nvidia limited the card for overclocking voltage, and disabled cores physically. It's such a great deal, a great card for anyone who coming out of the graphically challenged overpriced trap of many older cards, the gtx 1070 is an epic card. Next thing I want to say: It's a shame nvidia doesn't update their architecture code in drivers to give some dlss, be it only software side, the 1660 was mined to death, and is an underachiever in all senses of the word, at least at the price. Steve take it easy on us with your tests! :P

This is what i have in my pc right now. Got it used for ~160 and its been excellent.

I ran two 1070s in SLI up until a year or so ago when I gave the secondary card to a buddy who wanted to get into PC but couldn't afford a GPU. Still a phenomenal card, though I'll probably be replacing mine soon, since it doesn't handle DCS in VR at playable FPS.

I recently got the opportunity to (finally) build a gaming pc after my friend sold the old parts to his old and barely used rig. This Dell version came with it and for the buck i swear this series has to be the best nvidia has ever done. Although it doesnt handle dlss or rtx it damn near gets very close on it. Ill probably replace it in a few months since the market is good and its a five year old card- but still. Great card.

My second rig still rocks a 1070, and still runs all the games my missus wants to play. It really is a great card.

3 years ago when I bought the 2070 super it is a 1440p card and the advice from reddit saying that was overkill for 1080p but now post processing graphics gets more demanding over the years and look here now 1080p high/ultra is capable for cards more than a 3 years old especially with the 1070 variant. Imagine that!

I challenge your "cheapest on ebay" statement good sir! For I just scored a strix 1070 a week back in box owned by an old fella who had been gaming since the birth of the computer, all for £90!! A lovely upgrade from my £30 970..which was am upgrade from my 3GB 1060 haha

1070 strixx here after 5 years I do not feel I should change. My config was 1500EUR and I only bought +1 fan and more ssd/hdd. Perfectly balanced, as it should be...

I still have the gtx 970m 6gb and its still holds up the most new games 🎮 🙃

I got a GTX 1070 back in 2016, the Palit Jetstream model. And it still holds up as the GPU in my main PC. Yes, there are stronger cards out there these days but thanks to its 8GB of VRAM and the rather strong performance back in its day it's still okay even now and it can handle any game you throw at it. I might upgrade it with the upcoming generation of GPUs but only to keep it alive in my secondary system, in which an older GTX 960 is slowly starting to die. The 1070 is actually not too far behind the 3050's performance, just lacking ray tracing and DLSS. FSR can work for the 1070 though.

I've had a 1070 AMP Extreme from Zotac, basically a cheaper 1070 Ti thanks to the OC made by a producer. I had a lot of fun because this GPU could run anything and didn't even sweat. Now it sits in my buddy PC still running fine while I've got 1080 Ti for myself with a water block. Pascals are the best GPU series made by Nvidia so far. They are comparable with the 20 and 30 series and sometimes they are slightly better.

I bought a 1080Ti for $400 back in 2020, very worthwhile purchase. I’m still getting 144FPS at 1440p on games like Forza and COD

I picked up a 1080 for a cheeky $30US a few months ago, has been a pretty good card in my old Aptiva case

Ive still got my 1070 sitting on a shelf next to my desk because I loved it so much lol

I've got Ryzen 5 2600 with 1070, and it feels so goooood