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It looks like Nvidia might have another high-end GPU ready for us by the start of 2017 as reports this week are suggesting that the GTX 1080Ti will be making its debut at CES in January. We are also hearing whispers surrounding the GPU's specifications, giving us an early idea of where the 1080Ti may sit when compared to the GTX 1080 and Titan X (Pascal).
These rumours come from the Chinese site Zol, pinning the launch date for the GTX 1080Ti at CES 2017. The card is said to be based on the GP102, which we have already seen with the Titan X, however, it will be cut down in some areas.
According to the current rumours, the GTX 1080Ti will feature 3328 CUDA Cores, 208 TMUs and 30SMs. By comparison, the Titan X (Pascal) features 3584 CUDA Cores, 28 SMs and 224 TMUs. As far as clock speeds, go, the GTX 1080Ti may come with a base clock of 1503MHz and a boost clock of 1623MHz.
The final bit of information pertains to VRAM, while other leaks have claimed that the GTX 1080Ti will have standard GDDR5 memory, this report says that it will feature 12GB of GDDR5X, just like the Titan X. However, do keep in mind that all of this information is unofficial right now, so it may not turn out to be entirely accurate. Either way, we should learn more as we get closer to CES, if these reports have any weight.
KitGuru Says: Given the price jump we have seen with the launch of Pascal, it will be interesting to see how much a GTX 1080Ti would cost, especially since some retailers are still selling custom GTX 1080s for well over £700, with some nearing the £800 mark.
You know, people will be disappointed by this card. It’s price will be astronomical. Given the realistic ~20-30% performance gains of the TITAN XP at twice the GTX1080’s price, and the fact that the 1080Ti just can’t be that much cheaper, especially when taking into account the possibility of GDDR5X AND the CPU demand on GTX1080s/TITAN XPs as games lately have gotten CPU heavy, not sure why but my GTX1080 has been getting bottlenecked by my 4690K @ 4.6GHz, it just won’t be that good.
If it is GDDR5, and not GDDR5X, the GTX1080/VEGA (assuming it’s good) may very well be the smart option for most people.
You know, the only reason a high-end Ti is coming is because the AMD next flagship is near, nVidia’s proven preemptive strategy has worked twice before already: They will price drop x80 to accomidate x80 Ti and keep AMD’s new attempt at high-end from getting a market share foothold.
For AMD, they have been trying to fill the gap between x80 and Titan with something cheaper, but it isn’t like nVidia is clueless about AMD’s intentions, so they will fill their own gap when it suits them. Few were dissappointed with their 780Ti and 980Ti cards.
Plus, these prices and scenarios don’t stick because time doesn’t stop once we upgrade, there are always new games that make each new series of hardware like the last gen spawning demand for the next.
This will be the card that replaces my 780 classified. The 1080 would be nice but my 780 is still playing my games just fine 3 years later.
I think all the specs are a lie based on assumptions. When they realized the GDDR5 lie was far fetched, they came up with a new lie that it was GDDR5 instead. Anyone who looks closer can see that the spec sheet they presented was photoshopped, with text being out of alignment half way through the core count. It was clearly a 1080 spec sheet photoshopped with numbers literally cut and pasted from other parts of the spec sheet, looking closer at the pixels and you could see the same compression artifacts across the same numbers where they would have ripped the numbers from the old spec sheet.
Bruh you will see a 2.5x increase already , i saw a 2x literal increase going from 970 to a 1080 , a 1080 will be a smarter choice as opposed to a 1080Ti
these was news about this on guru3d too it was also concluded to be false and photo shoped specs leaked
Which may very well backfire on them. Timing will be nigh impossible and AMD has the value advantage right now. And all the customers left will only be ones caring for value.
True for some people. NVIDIA is known for their formidable marketing tactics. If they couldn’t sell the 1080 Ti, they wouldn’t even come out with it.