Monday, October 2nd 2017
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Could Feature 9 Gbps GDDR5 Memory
NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 1070 Ti performance-segment graphics card, which could be launched toward the end of this month, with market-availability following in early-November; could feature 9 Gbps GDDR5 memory, and not the previously-thought 8 Gbps GDDR5. This "almost-GTX 1080" answer of NVIDIA to AMD's RX Vega 56 features 2,432 CUDA cores, 152 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 8 GB of memory. It will be available at a price-point competitive with AMD's RX Vega series, and could come in custom-designs by NVIDIA's add-in card partners.
The GTX 1070 Ti will be NVIDIA's second SKU to max-out the GDDR5 clock band. The company had, in late-2016, refreshed the mid-range GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to feature 9 Gbps memory in an effort to compensate for its narrower 192-bit wide memory interface, improving its competitiveness against the Radeon RX 480 8 GB. The company had also, at the time, refreshed the GTX 1080 with faster 11 Gbps GDDR5X memory, which means the GTX 1080 cards with the SKU's original 10 Gbps GDDR5X memory clock could be phased out of the market. NVIDIA will ride into the crucial Holiday 2017 season with its existing GeForce "Pascal" family, bolstered by the new GTX 1070 Ti.
Sources:
OC3D, ProClockers
The GTX 1070 Ti will be NVIDIA's second SKU to max-out the GDDR5 clock band. The company had, in late-2016, refreshed the mid-range GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB to feature 9 Gbps memory in an effort to compensate for its narrower 192-bit wide memory interface, improving its competitiveness against the Radeon RX 480 8 GB. The company had also, at the time, refreshed the GTX 1080 with faster 11 Gbps GDDR5X memory, which means the GTX 1080 cards with the SKU's original 10 Gbps GDDR5X memory clock could be phased out of the market. NVIDIA will ride into the crucial Holiday 2017 season with its existing GeForce "Pascal" family, bolstered by the new GTX 1070 Ti.
17 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Could Feature 9 Gbps GDDR5 Memory
You should be able to OC this Ti vram to at least 10000MHz then.
Also, 9gbps is exactly what I predicted. Why? Well, the original leak never stated what kind of gddr5 and 8gbps gddr5 in a 1070 ti even though 1060's get 9gbps nowadays seems a bit dumb.
The 1070 is so high priced - at least in europe so it makes it obsolete vs a 1080, they will position it closer to the 1080 in performance while having the same price = better product stack = ok.
It's nothing to write home about but nothing wrong with it either, the 1070 was a bit out of place in today's market.
9 gigabits per second per pin.
Then add to that the fact that they still havent released custom cooled cards, which really narrows their market as far as gamers...
The result: NV doesn't have to respond to AMD, they have to respond to market demand so they don't price themselves out like AMD did, which they already had done for them by putting GDDR5X in the 1080.
This card has to do with yields gradually improving and Nvidia having too many chips which are almost good enough for GTX 1080, and trying to get the most out of it before Volta next year.
Although, so far the 1080 and Ti has been immune to price jumps (last I checked).
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