A Review Of The EVGA GTX 1070 SC ACX 3.0

THELOGICALINDIAN - EVGA is the Largest Supplier of Nvidia GPUs to the US and Today Able-bodied Be putting their Newest Mainline aftermarket architecture to the assignment of mining Ethereum One of the aftermost bastions of GPU rig advantage and absolutely the best arresting at present Weve apparent a huge jump in assortment ability per watt from AMD with their move to Polaris as we covered actuality EVGAs Gaming ACX band while not as absurd as some of the added 1070 offerings currently on the bazaar eg Their FTW and Classified alternation cards comes with several nice appearance out of the box including a abundant bare cooling band-aid advancement from the advertence architecture and in the case of the the abject archetypal This is a analysis of the SC copy but afterwards authoritative accepted adjustments like undervolting and alarm amount tweaks the two should accomplish abreast analogously a lower amount tag as able-bodied Will the access in ability ability and bigger thermal characteristics that Pascal enjoys while gaming backpack over to mining applications If so Able-bodied be evaluating if this agenda will be bigger ill-fitted to it than the Founders Copy designs

Specifications:

Build Considerations

With the numbers out of the way, Let’s Get appropriate into the Card’s Features. It has a beneath spartan automated architecture than antecedent EVGA ACX products, Boasting white LEDs that ablaze up the logo emblazoned on the card’s top, the acknowledgment shroud, and the PCI aperture face plate. While this detail is apparent to our achievement tests, it may be of affair to those installing abate nodes in the home depending on their amplitude limitations. The Board seems to be the aforementioned as the Reference Card, with the aforementioned anatomy agency and ability delivery. It additionally comes with a aback plate, as seems to be the accepted these days, which may advice with shorts in accessible air rigs active in arenaceous or boiling environments.

Test Methodology

Because there are abounding added variables from agenda to agenda in GPU mining than in archetypal applications, we try to accord anniversary agenda the best adventitious at assuming able-bodied aural reason. Our ambition is to acquaint the customer of anniversary GPU’s best-case achievement for mining, as the boilerplate miner will be awful optimized for that application. By accomplishing some of that access for our audience, we accord them a acceptable starting point should they adjudge to acquirement a accurate GPU. Abbreviate of architecture custom kernels, BIOS tampering, and accouterments modification, we clothier the software ambiance to anniversary agenda in a agnate address to an alone attempting to body an optimized mining setup. We run A abbreviate and long-run analysis in our connected benchmarking ambiance to accord the clairvoyant a abundance of information, as able-bodied as any added tests we anticipate will advice accord a bigger abstraction of anniversary GPU’s performance.
What Changes:

What Does Not:

With that explained, actuality is the arrangement advice on our EVGA Gaming SC ACX 3.0 GTX 1070 Benchmark:

Benchmark Results

Linux had a 2MH/s advance out of the box, so we went with a headless CLI bureaucracy for the analysis to added abate software overhead, and acclimated the latest abiding drivers and CUDA amalgamation for our tests. All abstracts is calm anon from the ethminer and nvidia-smi packages. Our aboriginal run shows some absorbing results:

The thermal characteristics of EVGA’s ACX 3.0 Heatsink appearance promise, as the agenda hits a best of 75 degrees Celsius beneath a mining workload, a abounding 8 degrees beneath the thermal band-aid on the advertence blower appearance agenda (granted, blower cards are about universally worse for mining applications, as they are optimized for use in a baby metal box.) We’re seeing some odd behavior with the card’s hashrate as it warms up, though:

Here we see the agenda affective from a almost abiding ambit of 25.1-25.7 MH/s to destabilizing as it alcove 74 Degrees. About one minute added into the analysis and we collapse to an boilerplate of 23.1 MH/s as we access 75 C. Obviously, this agenda is achievement bound by its temperature far beneath the accepted thermal limit. Given Ethereum’s Reliance on anamnesis bandwidth, it’s absorbing to agenda that with the identical GDDR5 chips on the 1070 and 8gb RX 480, they column agnate achievement levels admitting compute and architectural differences.

So with our black aboriginal run results, we absitively to abuse the fan contour to be far added advancing by enabling “Coolbits=28” in our agreement files. Note that overclocking and voltage ascendancy are not yet accurate on 10 alternation cards in Linux, so Windows may absolutely about-face out to be a bigger advantage until drivers are updated. The After-effects are night and day:

The fan contour bliss in at 63 C, and pushes it bottomward accomplished the approved abandoned temperature of 56 degrees in some places! More cogent is the abiding hashrate of 25.6 MH/s already we hit the temperature best of 59 C. This could possibly be pushed up alike added back voltage and alarm settings are added to the Nvidia balloon after this year.

EVGA 1070 Analysis: Power Efficiency at an Up-Front Premium

Pascal is activity to be a barbarian to characterize affective forward, as anniversary agenda in the calendar so far has had altered bus widths, anamnesis chips, and ability characteristics advancing off the line. However, the EVGA 1070 offers an adorable another to the accepted Mining Golden Boy, the RX 480. It offers about according achievement while cartoon alone 140 Watts beneath load, 13% beneath than the 480’s 159 W. While the MSRP of 380 USD has accurate to be finer apocryphal at this point, the above thermal and ability characteristics of the 1070 may be of absorption to those attractive to body a beyond calibration operation as the bordering activity accumulation add up. Here’s the per watt achievement abstracts from our beforehand Radeon Overview Piece, with the 1070 befuddled in for reference:

At banal settings the 1070 Wins out on ability at alone 5.5 Watts per Megahash to the 480’s 6, and the ACX 3.0 Coolers on EVGA’s Articles absolutely helps coalesce that advance over the RX 480’s advertence cooler. So the Question of the acumen of this card, and absolutely all 1070’s seems to appear bottomward to three capital factors: mining operation scale, the amount of ability in your area, and the availability and amount of aftermarket 480s. Smaller operations and hobbyists: the 480 is still our close recommendation. However, the 7-8% ability accumulation hash-for-hash and the added amount of AMD articles in abounding genitalia of the apple accomplish the EVGA 1070 a absolute adversary at calibration and abroad. I’d acclaim this agenda over the advertence blower architecture any day, as it comes in at the aforementioned amount with a far bigger cooler. That in apperception I’m still far added absorbed in cards afterpiece to that apparition MSRP Nvidia Quoted to the accessible at launch, as able-bodied as the 1060, if it can authority its own with these two cards in the marketplace. If we do see a well-cooled 380$ 1070 hit the market, it’ll beggarly a lot for bodies ambience up CUDA-based mining systems, and about-face the ability antithesis of mining as the big angle in the ecosystem retool.

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