NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Release Date Teased With Countdown Timer?
A couple weeks ago the NVIDIA Quadro desktop series got a new flagship card, the Quadro GP100. The Quadro GP100 graphics card just happens to use the GP100 ‘Pascal’GPU with 3,584 FP 32 cores and 1,792 FP 64 cores along with an impressive 16GB of HBM2 memory. The FP 16 performance is at ~20 TFLOPS, FP 32 performance is around 10 TFLOPS and FP64 performance is roughly 5 TFLOPS. With performance numbers like those it shouldnt come as a shock to anyone that this card was designed for the most demanding rendering and GPGPU compute applications around. The NVIDIA Quadro GP100 is slated to be released through channel partners in March 2017 and pricing will be disclosed by NVIDIA closer to that time. That card is a tease for desktop users, but things are going to be getting good as it feels like we are close to the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti unveiling.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Rumored Specifications
NVIDIA is using the GP104 GPU for the GeForce GTX 1080, the GP102 on the Titan X (Pascal) and the GP100 for the Tesla P100 and now the Quadro GP100. Weve all been expecting NVIDIA to release the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti for months and it appears that NVIDIA is just waiting for AMD to launch Ryzen in March, 2017. Many have wondered what GPU NVIDIA will pick to use on the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and from our insider contacts in the PC industry wishing to remain anonymous, it sounds like it will be using the GP102 GPU. The NVIDIA Titan X is a 250W TDP graphics card armed with the GP102 GPU that has 12 billion transistors, 3,584 CUDA cores and runs 12GB of GDDR5X memory on a 384-bit wide interface. NVIDIA would likely cut down this core a bit for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti if the need to release such a card ever comes up.
The NVIDIA GeForce GtX 1080 Ti release will also be a bit sobering as it appears to be the last desktop consumer card that NVIDIA will be releasing that is based on the Pascal architecture. The vast NVIDIAs GPU engineers are busy working on their Volta GPU architecture designs for the next GeForce series of cards.
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Release Date
When will NVIDIA release the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card? AMDs already said that they will be launching VEGA in March, so we will most certainly see NVIDIA being active that month. Rumors have also started to circulate that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti might be launched at PAX East in Boston, Massachusetts on March 10, 2017. That date might work for what NVIDIAs marketing team has planned for counter AMDs VEGA GPU release, so that sounds plausible. Some other rumors point to a launch at the Game Developer Conference that takes place later this month (Feb 27th to March 3rd), but it feels like NVIDIA wants to see AMD VEGA before they roll out the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to compete with it. Yesterday, NVIDIA put up a countdown timer on their website that has just 5 days left on it. That would make the announcement date for the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti video card to be February 28th, 2017. If, that is what they are really announcing that day. You can see the timer for yourself here on GeForce.com!
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Pricing
Knowing a ball park range of where the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be priced is simple as we know the price on the Geforce GTX 1080 ($620) and the Titan X ($1,200). Its damn near guaranteed that GTX 1080 Ti will be priced between those to cards suggested retail pricing. Splitting the price would put you at around $900. Our educated guess would put the card around $899 to $999 as we dont think NVIDIA ask over $1000 for it. Under $899 would be nice and we only see NVIDIA doing that if AMD hits a home run with VEGA. That would put NVIDIA in a position that they havent been in for some time and if that happens we might see NVIDIA being aggressive on pricing if the performance wasnt where it needed to be. Then again, NVIDIA believes they offer a better overall user experience, so they might not feel the need to adjust pricing if it was close.