MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X Review

August 3, 2016 | 16:46

Tags: #best-gtx-1070 #gtx-1070 #pascal

Companies: #corsair #msi #nvidia

MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X Overclocking

As ever, we bumped to power limit and temperature limit to their maximum values: 105 percent and 92°C respectively. We also increased the voltage threshold to 100 percent; this is a liquid-cooled card, after all.

Eventually, we managed to add 110MHz to the core, giving us new speeds of 1,717MHz base and 1,907MHz boost – a 7 percent increase, going by base clock. The core was able to peak at 2,100MHz, but was most often in the 2,025-2,050MHz range.

The memory, meanwhile, was stable all the way to 2.35GHz, a 15 percent jump that took the effective speed to 9.4Gbps.

Overclocking - Ashes of the Singularity

3,840 x 2,160, DX12, 'High' settings, 2x MSAA

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
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Overclocking - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

3,840 x 2,160, DX11, 'High' settings (HairWorks off), AA on

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
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Overclocking - Unigine Valley 1.0

2,560 x 1,440, DX11, 'Ultra' settings, 0x AA

  • EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB (OC)
  • Asus GeForce GTX 1070 Strix OC 8GB
  • MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Sea Hawk X 8GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB
  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury X 4GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 4GB
  • Sapphire Radeon R9 390X Nitro 8GB
  • Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4GB
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