NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti by January 2017?

If you thought the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal was too pricey for your liking, you may want to keep reading. A GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is apparently in the works, and will be launched at CES 2017 in January next year. Like the GTX 980 Ti before it, it will feature a cut down version of the biggest and baddest GP102 silicon found in the Titan X Pascal card.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is expected to feature 8 SMs less than the full GP102 silicon with 60 SMs in the Titan X Pascal card. NVIDIA is reportedly going to drastically push clock speeds up to allow for similar performance with the Titan X Pascal, despite the lower CUDA core count. The GTX 1080 Ti is rumored to see clocks of around 1.5 GHz to 1.6 GHz to achieve 10.8 TFLOPs of compute, nearly matching the Titan X Pascal’s 11 TFLOPs.

The rest of the specifications are touted to be pretty similar to the NVIDIA Titan X Pascal, with 12GB of GDDR5X VRAM fed over a 384-bit wide interface and a 250W TDP. Pricing wise it should be cheaper than the Titan X, obviously, with an expected price of around $700 compared to the $1200 NVIDIA is asking for the Titan X.

Last year’s GTX 980 Ti was a stopgap measure meant to counter the AMD Fury X card which outperformed the GTX 980 quite nicely. As we have yet to see AMD’s flagships, the AMD Vega cards, is NVIDIA already preparing to stop AMD even before the red team gets off the starting block?

SOURCE: WCCFTech

Pokdepinion: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti may be the card NVIDIA Pascal card everyone is waiting for, with the performance of the Titan X Pascal with a much more palatable price tag. Not to mention NVIDIA allowed AIBs to tweak their 980 Ti offerings, and we will most probably see the same here, squeezing even more pixel pushing power from the GTX 1080 Ti.