Thursday, September 29th 2016
NVIDIA Preparing GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for 2017 CES Launch
NVIDIA is preparing its next high-end graphics card under the GeForce GTX brand, the GTX 1080 Ti, for launch along the sidelines of the 2017 International CES, early next January. The card will be positioned between the $599-$699 GeForce GTX 1080, and the $1199 TITAN X Pascal, and will be based on the 16 nm "GP102" silicon.
Chinese tech publication Zol.com.cn reports a few possible specifications of the SKU, adding to what we know from an older report. NVIDIA is carving the GTX 1080 Ti out from the GP102 silicon by enabling 26 out of 30 streaming multiprocessors, resulting in a CUDA core count of 3,328. This sets the TMU count at 208. The ROP count is unchanged at 96. The card features a 384-bit wide GDDR5X memory interface (and not the previously-thought GDDR5). It will have an identical memory bandwidth to the TITAN X Pascal, of 480 GB/s. The card will feature 12 GB of standard memory amount. Its GPU clock speeds are expected to be 1503 MHz core, with 1623 MHz GPU Boost.
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Zol.com.cn
Chinese tech publication Zol.com.cn reports a few possible specifications of the SKU, adding to what we know from an older report. NVIDIA is carving the GTX 1080 Ti out from the GP102 silicon by enabling 26 out of 30 streaming multiprocessors, resulting in a CUDA core count of 3,328. This sets the TMU count at 208. The ROP count is unchanged at 96. The card features a 384-bit wide GDDR5X memory interface (and not the previously-thought GDDR5). It will have an identical memory bandwidth to the TITAN X Pascal, of 480 GB/s. The card will feature 12 GB of standard memory amount. Its GPU clock speeds are expected to be 1503 MHz core, with 1623 MHz GPU Boost.
50 Comments on NVIDIA Preparing GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for 2017 CES Launch
I'll probably grab an EVGA 1080 Ti.
I expect a Vega paper launch around this cards release date.
In AMD, at least they do not sell such a processor as a superior product because it is not and get a proper cut the whole article without missing circuits . Anyway I have to exchange my graphics and AMD, there is no competing products and that s rely bothers me.
Personally I think a lot of these tech sites are making a MAJOR logic error when it comes to these leaks. Up until now we have kept hearing 1 TB/s and 8GB for Vega specs. The current leaks are for the PROFESSIONAL version of Vega cards, and as such it would make sense if it had less bandwidth but more RAM. I expect:
-Firepro Vega = 1400MHz, 512 GB/s, 16GB HBM2, January - February launch
-RX Fury Vega = 1500MHz, 768 - 1TB /s, 8GB HBM2, February - March launch
Then Nvidia tried selling a Titan for $3000 and everyone laughed (It was just a terrible card in general).
So now they are trying $1200. If supply is an issue they will try $1500 next time.
Nvidia is so predictable and yet people still struggle with their formula. Release the Titan version first for an inflated price and then release the x80 Ti for what looks like a reasonable price in comparison but really isn't a reasonable price. Going all the way back to Kepler there were people on tech sites posting that the GTX 680 was the Flagship Kepler as far as a gaming GPU and there would be no other strictly gaming high end GPU similar to the Titan and some were saying buy the Titan for these reasons. The 680 was a mid range GPU and you had to look no further than W1zzard's review of it to clearly see that. From his GTX 680 review closing page:
"Technically we'd have to compare it to GTX 560 Ti, not GTX 580."
Right here on TPU were some well respected members saying that Nvidia wouldn't release a high end 1080 Ti GPU even a few months ago.
As for the Titan, I always found it comical. Nvidia somehow convinced everyone that the Titan series was a series separate from the normal graphics cards, and that if you bought one you would have the strongest card available for 2 years straight. However it was only 40% stronger than the 7970 GHz!, and so how anyone could believe that 40% would make it the strongest for 2 years is beyond me.
The sad fact is that Nvidia COULD make a card worthy of the name "Titan", they just have chosen not to. If the OG Titan in early 2013 had 3072 Cores, 6GB of 7000 MHz GDDR5, 1200MHz core clocks, and dual 8-pin connectors it would have been the strongest card until 2015.
Even now they COULD have released a Titan card with 16GB HBM2, 3840 Cores, 2000 MHz core clocks, and dual 8-pins that just destroys everything for years to come. I would have payed $1000 for it too...
AMD have the $1500 Rad Pro if you bleed red ladies, and many here do.
LMAO the Fury X already trades blows with the 1070, and the rumors are essentially a Fury X clocked 40% faster.