Thursday, February 16th 2017
NVIDIA to Host GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration Event at GDC 2017
Not to be outdone by AMD, and making sure to keep the landscape populated with enough green, NVIDIA has announced its presence in the upcoming GDC 2017. Could this be the choice battleground for an announcement regarding the (now) almost mythical GTX 1080Ti?
Let's see what the company has to say: "You're invited to attend the GeForce GTX gaming celebration! Come join us for an evening of awesome PC gaming, hardware, tournaments and of course free food, drinks and a few other amazing surprises. Doors will open at 6:30 PM and the event will start promptly at 7 PM. The celebration will take place in downtown San Francisco, CA."
Let's just say that the company has history of announcing its top-of-the-line Ti models on GDC (much like it did with 2015's GTX 980 Ti), and that NVIDIA closes their announcement with a very tentative (if generic) "You won't want to miss this". And with rumors of AMD being prepared to show off its Vega architecture on the same day, as well as the expected release of its highly anticipated Ryzen CPUs, February 28th is looking out to be one of the best days of the year for enthusiasts.
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Let's see what the company has to say: "You're invited to attend the GeForce GTX gaming celebration! Come join us for an evening of awesome PC gaming, hardware, tournaments and of course free food, drinks and a few other amazing surprises. Doors will open at 6:30 PM and the event will start promptly at 7 PM. The celebration will take place in downtown San Francisco, CA."
Let's just say that the company has history of announcing its top-of-the-line Ti models on GDC (much like it did with 2015's GTX 980 Ti), and that NVIDIA closes their announcement with a very tentative (if generic) "You won't want to miss this". And with rumors of AMD being prepared to show off its Vega architecture on the same day, as well as the expected release of its highly anticipated Ryzen CPUs, February 28th is looking out to be one of the best days of the year for enthusiasts.
17 Comments on NVIDIA to Host GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration Event at GDC 2017
If you look at how fast the Titan X is, a 1080 ti can be faster with better power and cooling. If Vega isn't faster than Titan X, well hell, Nvidia will not make the 1080ti a super card.
I just hope Vega is 1080 level at least and 3/4 the price.
Vega will be more expensive than 1080 because it performs superior. Only a GTX 1080 TI can bring the price down, so if Vega is released more expensive than 1080 because it's faster, the 1080 TI has to be faster than Vega to bring prices of Vega and GTX 1080 down. In the end 500-600 bucks for Vega and 400-500 for GTX 1080 and the new 1080 Ti being 600-700 or even more, somewhat similar to 980 Ti pricing.
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Besides, if Vega will be faster, AMD is entitled to have higher prices. NVIDIA does that all the time and it doesn't bother anyone, but if AMD does it when it has the lead, it's somehow inconvenient... Double standards much...
Who said that AMD isn't allowed to do anything? I didn't say that. Go and read my comments again, and next time get your strange AMD/Nvidia biased "enemy thinking" down first. I was talking generally about GPUs and price points they have, that's it.
Whatever, Vega will be expensive, just wait and see. Anyone hoping a over 500mm² 14nm GPU with HBM2 tech will be 25% cheaper than GTX 1080 (which is also slower) will be totally disappointed soon.
You didn't say that, someone else did, can you actually read the thread first before you start attacks on people?
Nvidia is not holding back GTX 1080 Ti because of Vega, it wouldn't be a competitor anyway. The binning for GTX 1080 Ti was decided more than 6 months ago, so the hardware configuration is set in stone. The only parameters Nvidia can tweak at this point is clock, voltage, fan profile, etc. But the cards have already been in production for a couple of months, so the final specs are all set. At this point Nvidia is just filling up the stocks for the release.
Nvidia should release GTX 1080 Ti soon, because if they delay it again it will be too close to the first Volta("GV104") cards arriving one year from now, which will probably come close to it.
GTX 1080 Ti will not be faster than Titan X, it will be slightly slower. It is a lower binning, but will have higher base clocks and higher boost.