Evernessince
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I don’t care if all they did was rub banana juice all over the thing, it delivers by far the best cost per frame ratio of anything on the market and the power consumption is phenomenal. Why you would focus on where or how the performance is being achieve rather than the resulting performance is confusing to say the least.
This is a reference card and we reviewed it as such. The score is for the GPU, we have never reviewed a reference card before or focused on the reference card itself. If that were the case the 290 would never had scored 95pts.
A perfect score doesn’t mean a perfect product, a perfect product doesn’t exist. Unless Nvidia or AMD come out with a free graphics card that smokes everything on the market, that would probably be perfect. The score is subjective and it reflects the fact that it is the best card on the market at this time.
Everything is a factor when looking at a video card. Why do I have to tell a tech writer that heat generation and overclocking affect the selling price of a video card and it's respective score? I find it rather odd that there are no temperature tests done for the 1070 at all when other tech outlets have it. Did you guys just forget to do one of the biggest parts of a graphics card review? This is seriously the second major thing you guys left out. I had to call you out just to get the 4k benchmarks.
Why do the 980 and 970 get a lower score when they launched with excellent energy efficiency and as the fastest on the market? Maxwell is what gave pascal the base for it's speed and power efficiency.
https://www.techspot.com/review/885-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-gtx-980/page9.html
Using the exact same criteria on the exact same website yet two different scores. Tell me what makes the 1070 better now than the 970 when it released?
So reference cards shouldn't be overclocked? That's a cop out given it's one of Nvidia's major selling points for the cards. Once again though, another contradiction because Techspot has done reviews focusing on a stock card and has overclocked it.
https://www.techspot.com/review/727-radeon-r9-290x/
So why don't you tell me the real reason you didn't overclock?
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