Wednesday, January 4th 2017
No GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Announcement at CES
When NVIDIA bought itself the 2017 International CES keynote, the expectations were through the roof. The company announced GeForce Now, a service that lets just about anyone play games on their PC without the necessary hardware, by streaming them from remote GPU farms that you rent; a new-generation NVIDIA Shield, which now comes with 4K HDR video support; NVIDIA Spot, a tiny IoT microphone that takes Google Assistant to the far reaches of your home; and some big-ticket announcements in the way of the company's self-driving cars initiative that taps into AI deep-learning.
The announcement hundreds of thousands of users thronged to Twitch for, and the announcement we in non-US time-zones stayed up late at night for, was surprisingly missing - the company did not announce the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. The GTX 1080 Ti is expected to be NVIDIA's new high-end SKU positioned between the GTX 1080 and the TITAN X Pascal, bringing 4K Ultra HD gaming to even more people. Perhaps NVIDIA feels it's already dug in deep with the $599 GTX 1080 and the $1299 TITAN X Pascal, that it doesn't need a faster card that's pricier to build at this time.
The focus now shifts to the AMD camp, where later today, the company is expected to make big announcements specific to its next-generation "Vega" GPU architecture. Since AMD isn't spending nearly as much money earned from PC gamers on non-PC gaming stuff, AMD's announcements are expected to be more relevant to the people who watched NVIDIA's live-stream.
The announcement hundreds of thousands of users thronged to Twitch for, and the announcement we in non-US time-zones stayed up late at night for, was surprisingly missing - the company did not announce the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. The GTX 1080 Ti is expected to be NVIDIA's new high-end SKU positioned between the GTX 1080 and the TITAN X Pascal, bringing 4K Ultra HD gaming to even more people. Perhaps NVIDIA feels it's already dug in deep with the $599 GTX 1080 and the $1299 TITAN X Pascal, that it doesn't need a faster card that's pricier to build at this time.
The focus now shifts to the AMD camp, where later today, the company is expected to make big announcements specific to its next-generation "Vega" GPU architecture. Since AMD isn't spending nearly as much money earned from PC gamers on non-PC gaming stuff, AMD's announcements are expected to be more relevant to the people who watched NVIDIA's live-stream.
53 Comments on No GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Announcement at CES
Can't say that I blame you, though. That keynote was a slog with no real payoff.
However, FWIW, technically 1080ti is boring. We know it's weaker than Titan X in core count and that Titan X under water hits about 2000Mhz.
Vega. That's what people, even Nvidia people are really interested in.
Bring it to us!
Hopefully AMD will surprise everybody and release a card that handily beats the 1080 and forces NVIDIA's hand, but I'm not holding my breath.
But that situation does not exist. And if it doesn't come to pass that AMD is competing with the 1080, then we won't even see a Ti this gen.
edit: if AMD drops the rx 490 soon they got my money. screw nvidia.
Point two: You held off christmas for this, you're going AMD. So you'll go AMD with what? A RX480? Because Vega is vaporware as we speak. It's not out and it's still some way off, otherwise, they'd have announced it formally. And guess what, wait for Vega because that's when we 'might' see a 1080ti.
While the RX 490 has been rumored for way too long without confirmation, whatever tier Radeon used in the Star Wars demo; they are calling that Vega.
While the engine used for Battlefront is not difficult for most cards to run at High settings, it was impressive to see that Vega demo run 4K resolution on Ultra at 60fps.
I have never heard anyone call Vega "vaporware" until now. That is an interesting take on the delays.