Friday, September 29th 2017
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti by Late October
It looks like NVIDIA's next performance-segment graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, could be launched sooner than expected. A report by NordicHardware, pins its launch date at October 26, 2017; ahead of the "early-November" date which was doing rounds earlier. It's also entirely possible that the card will be launched on October 26, and reviews of the card being posted, but market-availability beginning in November.
Based on the 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the GTX 1070 Ti is being designed to be almost as fast as the GTX 1080. It features 2,432 CUDA cores, 152 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory. The card is expected to perform (and be priced) within 12 percent of the GTX 1080. Its main competitor from the AMD stable is the Radeon RX Vega 56.
Source:
NordicHardware
Based on the 16 nm "GP106" silicon, the GTX 1070 Ti is being designed to be almost as fast as the GTX 1080. It features 2,432 CUDA cores, 152 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory. The card is expected to perform (and be priced) within 12 percent of the GTX 1080. Its main competitor from the AMD stable is the Radeon RX Vega 56.
31 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti by Late October
Any NV miners would rejoice as they finally can have a near full GP104 without the dreadful GDDR5X.
If you look at models of cards that exist in both the 1070 and 1080 cards you'll see this.
For example, the Zotac 1070 and 1080 mini cards. The 1080 mini is $510, 12% would be about $60, putting the price of the 1070Ti at about $449. The Zotac 1070 Mini is $429. To the 1070Ti would be $60 cheaper than the 1080, but only about $20 more expensive than the current 1070 prices. If you are already looking at a 1070, then it is a no brainer to just spend the $20 more for a 1070Ti(of course prices on the 1070s are likely to go down after the 1070Ti's release). However, it is a harder justification to spend the extra $60 to jump to a 1080, especially if the rumors are true that the 1070Ti performs almost identically and overclocks to outperform a stock 1080.
The pricing roughly works out the same for other models too, like the ASUS Strix 1070 and 1080, MSI Armor cards, and Gigabyte G1 Gaming cards.
but I guess we'll see the benchmarks to further confirm if the supposed $60 difference is worth it for the supposed to be more powerful 1080. I am worried that it will become like the GTX 1080 Ti which essentially killed the first Pascal Titan.
Theoretically it may not matter much, but in practice, even at 1080p you can notice the benefits of running at 11Gbps compared to stock, especially in the minimum fps. Its something similar to the GTX 660ti, and the 970, all performance segment cards that have fallen off more quickly than the well rounded, full die Gx104's. Similarly, the 680 > 770 had the exact same core, but the 770 came out faster due to faster VRAM.
Therefore its strange seeing these specs come out of the Nvidia stable. Usually they do it the other way around (such as the 1080 11Gbps).
Another reason to avoid the 1070ti is the TDP compared to its core count, its clear as day these are failed 1080's, there is no way you're winning the lottery here. So you get sloppy GP104 cuts compared with the 1070's memory for a near-1080 price. This really isn't a good deal.
The 1070ti enables Nvidia to sell more failed 1080's at a higher price.
Frame buffers scale with screen resolution, going from 1440p to 4K, even with AA only increases the consumption with megabytes. With tiled rendering, the frame buffers mostly stay cache local, resulting in very marginal bandwidth requirements with resolution changes.
Texture resources which uses most of bandwidth are not proportional with screen resolution, they are proportional with detail levels.