NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti release date news update: Cut back graphics card launching 2017

Emmanuelle Espiritu Tuesday, September 20, 2016

NVIDIA may not have yet confirmed a possible GeForce GTX 1080 Ti release but a leak about the rumored graphics card's features have already been making rounds online.

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PC Gamer speculated that the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) happening in January 2017 may see the GPU tech company unveiling the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti when the company's founder, Jen-Hsun Huang takes the stage as the event's first keynote speaker. Until then, PC gamers will have to rely on what little information there currently is about the purported existence of the graphics card.

Based on the specifications leak that was first posted on Overclock3D, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be a cut back version of the current GeForce GTX 1080 with a few notable improvements from the GTX Titan X Pascal.

The rumored graphics card is expected to match up against its higher-end contemporaries at a much lesser cost.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will maintain the same GP102 GPU core design as the GTX Titan X. However, a source reported that the anticipated graphics card will be running on a much slower video memory of GDDR5, which will put it in league with the GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 models. However, it will still be a cut above the vanilla GTX 1080 since it will push a much higher 384 GB/s on a 384-bit bus like the GTX Titan X.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will reportedly have a base clockspeed of 1,503 MHz to complement its boost clockspeed of 1,623 MHz, which should give the graphics card 10 TFLOPs of computing horsepower in total. Moreover, it will be equipped with 52 streaming multiprocessors, which is less than the GTX Titan X's 56, and 3,328 CUDA cores, which is more than the GTX 1080's 2,560.

The still unconfirmed graphics card will run on a screen resolution of up to a maximum 7,680 x 4,320. It will be NVIDIA SLI ready and PCIe 3.0 slot compatible. A 600-watt power supply will also be required to run GeForce GTX 1080 Ti along with the rest of the PC's local hardware.

These are all just speculations at this point and NVIDIA has yet to release an official statement about the development of a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.