Nvidia GTX 1070Ti To See October 26 Launch Date and $430 MSRP, According To Source

Nvidia has been able to get quite a bit of performance out of their Pascal architecture and since the AMD Vega 64 wasn’t the competition for Pascal at the high end that we had hoped for, Nvidia can continue to sit on Pascal before they release Volta and still have the best performing gaming GPU’s on the market. With that said, the Vega 56 does compete decently with the GTX 1070 and Nvidia doesn’t want to leave AMD with a potential performance lead in the $400 card segment, especially with the popularity of PC gaming and Cryptocurrency mining, right now. With the holiday season coming, Nvidia is going to want to maximize their sales on the Pascal GPU in its last Christmas before Volta rolls out, so a significant refresh makes sense. While Nvidia has kept their lips sealed about a possible GTX 1070Ti to bridge the gap between the 1070 and 1080, an article from Swedish site NordicHardware suggests the card will see an October 26 launch date, with a suggest retail price of $430 USD.

Gigabyte got rumors of the GTX 1070Ti flowing when they made a since-removed Facebook post about a week ago containing a graphic very similar to the “IT!” movie poster. The image contained a funny reference to a $100 bill floating away, along with a clown holding a very distinct looking Gigabyte Aorus gaming graphics card, with a “TI” graphic underneath. When questioned a week ago, Gigabyte remained coy and tight-lipped, saying that it’s just a poster. Since the posting, people have done more digging for info and it looks like the GTX 1070Ti is indeed going to be a reality.

According to this article from NordicHardware, the GTX 1070 Ti will have 2,432 CUDA cores, with a 1,607MHz base clock and 1,683MHz boost clock. The GTX 1070Ti is also using the same type of GDDR5 memory as the 1070, rather than the GDDR5X VRAM used on the GTX 1080. GDDR5 has proven to be better for Cryptocurrency mining, so the GTX 1070 Ti may see a lot of time in the mines, this Winter, if the rumors of its release are indeed true.

The GTX 1070Ti was benchmarked at 7.8 TFLOPS of overall compute power. This puts the GTX 1070Ti compute performance closer to the GTX 1080’s 8.2 TFLOPS than to the GTX 1070’s 5.8 TFLOPS.

While Gigabyte was the first manufacturer to slip a possible reference to 1070Ti, cards from eVGA, Asus, MSI and other partners will certainly be in the pipeline. At $430, the GTX 1070ti aims to hit a really nice balance between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080, since custom 1080 cards with decent cooling solutions still ring in at around $560. I am all for anything that helps shake the market up and lower the price of other graphics cards. A 1070Ti may help push down the price of the standard GTX 1070, which is still a great card for 1080P gaming at high settings.

What do you think about a GTX 1070Ti? Does it interest you at a $430 price point?