Compute Benchmarks

I also wanted to touch on compute performance on the GTX 1070 Gaming X. Our Compute testing is a little thin after removing a test but don’t worry I will be adding more soon. Our testbench dying pulled the focus away from our 2016 test suite revamp a little. That said I did get to put the GTX 1070 Gaming X through our Folding at Home benchmarks. Here we get a look at OpenCL performance in both single precision and double precision. In the single precision testing, the card performed similarly to what I saw in the synthetic benchmarks and in-game benchmarks. This has the GTX 1070 Gaming X up near the top with just the GTX 1080 up above it. The double precision results are a little less satisfying with it being down near the middle of the pack. This is because Nvidia doesn’t include FP64 cores in their consumer cards, leaving the FP32 cores to pick up the slack.