The New nVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
By 1nf3rn0 If you are a gamer and want to play the latest games on max video settings, then for sure you know that for that ‘luxury’ you must have an excellent graphics card. You just can’t cope witouth it, and for millions of gamers around the world, the first and sometimes only choice for a graphics card, is nVidia. That’s why this makes it a great news for those that enjoy an excellent gaming.
The first man of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang, presented latest and fastest graphics card in the history of nVidia at the Game Developers conference in San Francisco. This monstrosity is named GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is a successor to the very popular and high quality GTX 1080 series. The new Ti version comes with astonishing 11 GB from 11 Gbps DDR5X VRAM compared to the older 8 GB version.
Nvidia claims that their latest graphics card will be faster even than the current ‘queen’ – Titan X, that is sold on the market for the price of $1.200 dollars.
In terms of the GPU clocks the GTX 1080 Ti is also setup to run faster than the GP102 in the Titan X. The base clock of the new card is 1,480MHz with a boost clock of 1,582MHz. Though because it’s a Pascal GPU it’s going to have some serious overclocking headroom too. Nvidia say that a 2GHz overclocked GPU isn’t going to be beyond the realms of possibility.
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti specs
| GTX 1080 Ti | GTX Titan X | GTX 1080 | |
| GPU | GP102 | GP102 | GP104 |
| Lithography | 16nm FinFET | 16nm FinFET | 16nm FinFET |
| Transistors | 12bn | 12bn | 7.2bn |
| Chip size | 471mm2 | 471mm2 | 314mm2 |
| Boost clock | 1,582MHz | 1,531MHz | 1,733MHz |
| Base clock | 1,480MHz | 1,417MHz | 1,607MHz |
| CUDA cores | 3,584 | 3,584 | 2,560 |
| Memory Capacity | 11GB GDDR5X | 12GB GDDR5X | 8GB GDDR5X |
| Memory bus | 352-bit | 384-bit | 256-bit |
| TDP | 250W | 250W | 180W |
| Launch price | $699 (£699) | $1,200 | $499 |
There for, the gamers will be thrilled also by the fact that the new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will cost only $699 dollars, so with the declared „better performance for at least 35%“ it will definitely be the perfect solution. Nvidia added that this graphics card will be released on the market by the end of March this year.
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