Review: Palit GeForce GTX 1070 GameRock Premium Edition

Conclusion

GeForce GTX 1070 makes more financial sense than the GTX 1080 because it provides about 80 per cent of the performance for 65 per cent of the outlay. The upshot is excellent numbers at 1440p but not quite the 4K60 performance some may have been expecting before the Pascal launch.

Still, paying £400 for a graphics card requires serious thought and consideration about which brand to buy. Pailt puts forward a strong case with the GameRock Premium Edition model. Overclocked on both core and memory and using a huge heatsink that can effortlessly tame GPUs spitting out 50 per cent more power, the results are predictably impressive.

Quiet as a church mouse under the harshest of gaming loads, the brute-force approach works well on this otherwise mainstream-sized GPU. Anyone upgrading from an older card from a couple of years back should certainly consider it over the performance-comparable GTX 980 Ti, particularly if energy consumption and potential VR performance matters to you.

We're not huge fans of the colour scheme and urge Palit to increase the standard warranty cover to an industry-matching three years. If you can't quite stretch to the GTX 1080 yet want a card that's priced well for a GTX 1070 while also being very easy on the ear, the Palit GameRock Premium Edition sets a good benchmark.

Palit GeForce GTX 1070 GameRock Premium Edition

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The Palit GeForce GTX 1070 GameRock Premium Edition is available to purchase from Overclockers UK.

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