Hey, everybody this is Roberto Blake
of robertoblake.com geeking out with you today
over something awesome.
This is one of my favorite pieces of tech
that I've recently acquired.
Happy to report that my 4K video editing
and gaming rig is pretty much done at this point.
All the major components are done.
The very last piece of resistance
was the GTX 1070 graphics card.
I went with the Asus version of that,
the Asus Rog Strix, this thing's a monster.
First of all as a designer I really appreciate
what they did with the packaging for this.
It is tremendous, this is very cool.
It's the kind of thing that
I've come to expect from Asus lately.
In fact the packaging on the Asus monitor
that I bought for a 4K video editing monitor
was also well packaged.
I will have a review coming up on that
soon for you guys.
The performance of this graphics card
is tremendous and it was a bargain.
In my case, I actually got it
while the price was down on Amazon.
You have to constantly check,
I was able to get it for about 449 I believe.
This is an amazing bang for the buck graphics card.
The 1070 handled all the benchmark tests with flying colors.
If you guys are interested I can actually
release some videos with those benchmarks,
I just need to know in the comment section
if that's something you guys care about at all.
Everybody's already talked about this graphics card
for gaming and I will get in that
but let's talk about why I really bought it,
4K video editing and HD video editing for YouTube.
This is one of the best experiences I've had
with rendering in a long time.
The CPU rendering on this was already great
at reducing the time it takes for me to finish editing
and rendering my videos but with the GTX 1070,
blew it out of the water.
A 10 minute video with color grading
took about four minutes and 45 seconds to render,
that's nuts.
A 4K video for a minute took about three or four minutes
to render for 4K video, so if I do a typical YouTube video
of five or more minutes it will take me
somewhere between 20 and 30 minute to render this.
If it's a 4K video, which is insane,
and that's coming from the Panisonic Lumix G7.
So we're not even talking about faux 4K video
coming from your smartphone or something like that,
we're talking about real 4K video from Panasonic Lumix G7.
So this was a really good test of that.
I am completely satisfied with how it handles everything.
I can edit without any lags or delay in full resolution
on my new 4k Asus monitor.
I got a gaming monitor for that
and when I was playing OverWatch
I was able to maintain 60 frames per second
at ultra settings at 1440.
That is insane but here's the beauty of it.
When streaming I could easily maintained
over 30 frames-per-second, closer usual to 45 or 50,
while streaming with open broadcaster.
So that's really cool.
Now, one of the bonus features that the Asus Rog comes with,
and this might be great for those of you who are gaming,
is it does come with a year of xsplit Premium.
So, that means that you can gamecast.
You can go ahead and stream to Twitch or YouTube
or whatever you're trying to do and you can also
display the frames per second, the GPU temps,
whatever you want to do as far as an overlay,
and I think that that is amazing.
This is a future-proof card.
The 1080 might have been a little better
but for my budget I really just didn't want to go there
and the reality is I could still put another second GTX 1070
into my system, it can accommodate that.
It'll be a tight squeeze, it'll be a pain in the butt
for me but I could do it if I want to
just to increase the performance that much more.
I probably wouldn't put these into SLI configuration,
I would probably actually just use them
as stand alone graphics cards since for video editing,
you normally don't get any bonuses out of SLI
but you can buy using the graphics cards individually
as stand alone cards, that's if you're using two cards.
There's really no video editing bonus
for using more than two graphics cards.
So I just want to clear up that myth.
I'll probably cover it in another video.
speaking of future-proofing, this card is ready for VR.
So if I ever decide to get the HT Vibe,
or I decide to get the Oculus Rift,
I can go ahead and I can hook that up
into one of the two HDMI ports that it has.
It also has a display port so I can still run
dual monitors and put a VR headset in this.
As it is from my work flow, I'm getting ready to
order my second 4K monitor so I'm just running dual screens.
One is 1080 and one is a 4K monitor
but I can run dual screens
and still run my Artisul tablet
which is kind of an alternative
to a Wacom Cintiq, for those of you
who are not familiar with it.
I did a video about this before,
but basically I can run 3 displays at once
with no problem using this set up.
The performance is great, the design is amazing,
you can overclock this if you really want to.
I prefer not to use the automation for the split fan speeds,
I prefer to just have that running
at a constant speed myself, that keeps it cool,
but you can set all of that up.
The one downside that I will say about this card
is that the Asus GPU tweak software for it
for overclocking and controlling everything
is not something that's just plug in play,
you end up having to download it from the website.
This a little bit of a pain in the butt
but it's not anything that difficult to deal with.
This is been a great addition to my 4K video editing build.
it has definitely been an experience using it
and I'm totally satisfied.
There is a part of me that is tempted to buy
a second one of these cards so I highly recommend it.
This is a great card but you have a little bit
more money in your budget, feel free to go ahead
and get the GTX 1080.
I think that if you're trying to do video editing
or you want to do high-end gaming
that these are great cards and the new Pascal architecture
with the eight gigabytes of virtual memory
is really allowing these cards to, like,
just reach their maximum potential and I really dig that.
The reason that this works so well with Adobe Premiere Pro
and video editing and rendering is because
this is utilizing about 1,920 Cuda cores.
Cuda cores are really great for when you're doing
video editing and rendering as far as the playback engine
when you wanna do the editing and not have lags and delays
but also this can help offset the CPU
when your rendering which means the CPU can focus
on its task, the GPU can help out,
and thus you're getting faster render times.
I'm seeing render times cut down by half or more.
When you're video editing, time is money
and so this is great for me,
this makes me a lot more productive,
it makes me very comfortable to start
shooting more videos in 4k for you guys
and so I have to give this a completely favorable review.
I'm going to give it 5 out of 5 stars,
despite the cons of the price fluctuation
and the GPU tweak software not just being Plug and Play.
But other than that, it's a great video graphics card,
couldn't recommend it more, so go ahead and buy it.
Links are in the description, those Amazon links
help me and the channel out.
Also I will have a list that you guys can click on
if you just want to grab everything
or look at what my 4K video editing build really looks like,
so that's in the description below as well.
Anyway, that's my review of the
Asus Rog strix GTX 1070 from Asus and Nvidia.
Let me know what graphics cards you're using
and what your performance is if you're doing video editing,
specifically, I'd love to know that in the comment section.
Are you running two graphics cards for your video editing,
are you running one, and why?
Are you doing 4K video editing?
Let me know.
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As always, thanks so much for watching
and geeking out with me
over the new GTX 1070 from Asus and Nvidia.