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recently I checked out the beefy gigabyte GC X 1080 extreme gaming an impressive GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card boasting a massive cooler for some of the lowest temps we've seen yet the Xtreme also packed a fully redesigned PCB which included a 12 phase power design fed by a pair of 8 pin PCIe connectors overclocked the gtx 1080 extreme gaming held a clock speed of 2.1 gigahertz under load which is about as good as the 1080 overclocking seems to get hot on the heels of the GD X 1080 extreme gaming gigabyte has released the gtx 1070 extreme gaming which unsurprisingly is pretty much the same card for the GPU swapped out Nvidia did this with their founders edition graphics card and it seems gigabyte a following suit with their extreme gaming model as such I won't go into too much detail about the cars design as this was all covered in the previous video links here in short the exact same colors been used and the PCB design is also the same with one key change the power phase design has been downgraded from the 12 plus 2 design at the 1080 to a 10 plus 2 design for the 1070 the PCIe power configuration has also been changed from dual 8 pin connectors to a single 8 pin along with a single 6 pin connector once again those of you wanting to overclock the GD X 1080 extreme gaming can turn to gigabyte so an extreme engine software which I found really useful when testing the g1 gaming model the software enables easy overclocking it allows the user to increase the thermal target as well as the power target the user can monitor the GPUs vitals and easy overclocking modes exist along with the more complex manual overclocking options voltage states can be adjusted and custom fan curves can also be created finally the all-important RGB lighting can be configured here and there's a few of the more standard effects to play with when it came to overclocking we were able to increase the memory speed by 612 megahertz resulting in a total frequency of 5400 megahertz the core was pushed to a base clock of 1844 megahertz with a boost clock speed of 1983 megahertz of course due to invidious GPU boost 3.0 we know the card can run faster than the suggester boost clock if kept under the thermal and power targets in the case of the extreme gaming disallowed the card to hold an operating frequency of 2113 megahertz after a 20-minute stress test which was most impressive so now let's jump to the benchmarks and see how the extreme gaming got on then first up is battlefield 4 we're at 1440p the 10:17 extreme gaming managed six more FPS than the standard founders edition card it wasn't as much overclocking Headroom though with both cards overclocked the founders edition 1070 was only 2 FPS behind the extreme gaming's 99 FPS average up next was Far Cry primal where the extreme gaming managed 66 fps this was 5 more than the founders edition and just a single frame faster with both cards in there overclocked configurations in Star Wars Battlefront the extreme gaming card was this time 7 FPS faster than the founders Edition card and two frames higher with both cards overclocked this also allowed the card to again leapfrog the 980ti reference card the story was the same in the division the extreme gaming card was 7 frames faster than its Nvidia reference card and our overclock brought it to within 4 FPS of the GD X 1080 founders Edition card in doom the extreme gaming card was good for silky-smooth 106 FPS with his factory clock and 112 with our custom overclock this was however the only game where it wasn't able to defeat the overclocked 980ti though it was still very close in our last game tested ARMA 3 none of our cards tested were able to gain much through overclocking the extreme gaming card managed 70 FPS initially and then 72 FPS once overclocked which did still put it a little ahead of the founders edition the higher performance of the extreme gaming card looks even better when compared to the founders edition card once you see how little extra power is consuming to do so the standard clocked card only used an average of four more wads and once we have a clock both cards the extreme gaming card uses an extra six watts nothing too surprising here and I'm again impressed by the 10 70s performance per watt in general like gigabytes GT X 1080 extreme gaming card the 1070 Edition has extremely impressive thermal performance as you can see on our graph it runs super cool at 59 degrees standard and is 61 degrees with our overclock applied this is significantly lower than the founders Edition card which was up around 77 degrees when I was working hard having recently looked at and being very impressed by the gigabyte GC X 1080 extreme gaming card I went into this review with pretty high expectations and overall they were met thanks for the same beefy cooler found on gigabytes 1080 extreme this 1070 had no trouble dissipating what the GP 104 died threw at it running it impressively low temperatures even went overclocked performance was great too out of the box it was a healthy 9% faster than the stop clock found edition 1070 which is really nice this spinner was within 3% of our overclocked 980ti reference card and within 14% of the 1080 you found his addition once overclocked we actually weren't able to extract much more out of this card than I found his Edition counterpart however it did edged it out by 2% this meant it was now 2% faster than the overclocked 980 TI and within nine percent of the stock clock GTX 1080 on average the overclocked config netted a bonus 5% performance over the factory clock and it did so at a much lower temperature than the founders Edition cards the cards don't seem to be available in stores just yet but hopefully there will be any day now and hopefully there won't be too much of a premium for those keen to get their hands on one of the best board partner GTX 1070 s going around is this a 1070 card you'll be considering let me know in the comments I'm your host Matt as always and I'll 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