Are you referring to things like claymore, dstm, gateless gate #, ewbf, etc? Just different folks writing variously optimized software.
yes these other things what do they do thats so special if they dont give you any power and you cant mix and match video cards, what can you do with the software?
none of this software can make my 1070 more powerful then whats the point? any real world examples of what these things can do?