NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 To Be Equipped With GDDR5X Memory, AIBs Custom Graphics Cards Leak Out

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It looks like we will soon be looking at a new variant of the GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with a slightly different memory design. According to the latest report from Videocardz, an NVIDIA board partner has leaked out their own upcoming GTX 1070 model which supports GDDR5X memory.

*-AIBs Equip NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Custom Models With GDDR5X Memory:

his was going to happen eventually as NVIDIA board partners were shipping GeForce GTX 1060models with GDDR5X memory for a while now. The GeForce GTX 1070 was the only GP104 which was still using GDDR5 memory but that isn’t the case anymore.

ZOTAC leaked their GeForce GTX 1070 AMP! edition graphics card which features 8 GB GDDR5X memory. Now the main change is that the while the GeForce GTX 1070 AMP! with GDDR5X runs at the stock 8 Gbps speeds, GDDR5X is known for great overclocking capabilities and users can tune it to run at higher clock speeds compared to GDDR5 without much effort needed.
 

Other specifications for the card include the same 1920 CUDA Cores and clocks maintained at 1607 MHz base and 1797 MHz boost. The card is powered by dual 8-pin connectors and has a suggested board power of 250W. Pricing is not yet detailed but the card will be launching.

 Now the main reason as to why NVIDIA and their partners are doing this. First of all, we are aware of the excess inventory of Pascal GPUs that NVIDIA and their partners hold. These are mainly GP104 and GP106 GPUs and the only way of reducing this inventory is by making products a lot more appealing to the masses.