# NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070

12 Hacker News commenters recommended NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 9 years (3 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A mid-range graphics card that people say has run their games and other workloads reliably for years, and that they consider good value for the money.

## Why people recommend it

- Runs reliably for many years (3 comments): "I did use Nvidia GTX 1070 for a bunch of years without much of an issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48127403)) "it's a workhorse in the same way something like a NVIDIA 1070 was" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676298)) "It's ran perfectly well for almost a decade." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096127))
- Still runs current games (2 comments): "I don't run games 4K and still haven't had any problems running reasonably pretty recent stuff." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061141)) "it still runs the games I care about" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984472))
- Strong return on investment (2 comments): "it worked so well that I couldn't argue with the results" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433412)) "Probably one of the best ROIs from a single component" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384869))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090.md): 116 recommend
- [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090.md): 102 recommend
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-rtx-pro-6000.md): 77 recommend
- [Nvidia GPUs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-gpus.md): 67 recommend
- [AMD Radeon GPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-gpus.md): 48 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+1070+graphics+card&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070", https://hackerapproved.com/p/geforce-gtx-1070/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).