Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 arrives in India for Rs 40,800

A month after ** announcing its Pascal GPU -**sporting graphics cards, Nvidia has launched the GeForce GTX 1070 in India from Rs 40,800 onwards. The GTX 1070 will replace last generations GTX 970. The GTX 1080 will be selling for Rs 68,000. The GTX 1070 card is based on the Pascal GP104 GPU that is seen on the flagship GTX 1080 graphics card. But as is the case with non flagship cards, there has been a cut down on the number of CUDA cores on the 1070 as compared to 1080. The GTX 1070 has 1920 CUDA cores instead of the 2560 cores seen on the GTX 1080. There are 120 Texture units and the number of ROPs is the same at 64. The GTX 1070 comes with 8GB of video RAM with faster GDDR5 memory. It has a 256-bit memory bus. The base clock is 1506 MHz with Boost clock going to 1683MHz. The ZOTAC GTX 1070 has been priced at Rs 45,999 and consumers have already give it one star rating stating that it is already overpriced. Considering this is not a factory overclocked card, the price delta of almost Rs 6,000 actually makes no sense. In fact the US price for the GTX 1070 is pegged at $449 which translates to close to Rs 30,000. So consumers feeling shortchanged is natural. The card that the GTX 1070 replaces, the GTX 970 is priced around Rs 28,000 on Amazon.