Nvidia Announces GeForce GTX 1080 Ti; $700, Coming Next Week
Nvidia has the three fastest graphics cards on the market in its Titan X, GeForce GTX 1080, and GeForce GTX 1070, but it isn't waiting for the competition to catch up. A new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is imminent, based on the same GP102 processor as Titan X, and it's aimed at at the big gap between its $700 $600 (the price drop was a nice little nugget from this evening's announcement) GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition card and the $1,200 Titan X.The new 1080 Ti is $700, and it's coming next week.
Expect performance to land closer to the latter than the former, though. All 28 of the chip's SMs are turned on, yielding 3584 CUDA cores and 224 texture units at a rated GPU Boost clock rate of 1.6GHz (that's slightly higher than the Titan X).
The back-end does receive a small haircut: One of its 32-bit memory controllers is disabled, yielding an aggregate 352-bit pathway. This does some funny things to the configurations GeForce GTX 1080 Ti supports, and as a result, the card includes 11GB of memory. Despite the narrower memory path, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti actually offers more theoretical bandwidth than Titan X due to the introduction of 11 Gb/s GDDR5X memory (it moves up to 484 GB/s to the $1200 card's 480 GB/s).
In introducing GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia made a point of discussing the challenges tied to pushing memory to 11 Gb/s. By overcoming them, together with Micron, it created opportunities to offer other SKUs with higher-performance memory. Thus, Nvidia said it plans to sell GP104 GPUs to board partners for GTX 1080 cards with 11 Gb/s GDDR5X and GP106 GPUs for GTX 1060s with 9 Gb/s GDDR5.
Cutting one controller naturally takes out a corresponding ROP cluster, leaving 88 ROPs. It trims a 256KB slice of L2 cache, too. What remains is 2,816KB, down from Titan X's 3MB.
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1080 Ti | Titan X (GP102) | GeForce GTX 1080 (GP104) | Titan X (GM100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMs | 28 | 28 | 20 | 24 |
| CUDA Cores | 3584 | 3584 | 2560 | 3072 |
| Base Clock | ? | 1,417MHz | 1,607MHz | 1,000MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1600 MHz | 1,531MHz | 1,733MHz | 1,075MHz |
| GFLOPs (Base Clock) | ? | 10,157 | 8,228 | 6,144 |
| Texture Units | 224 | 224 | 160 | 192 |
| Texel Fill Rate | 358.4 GT/s | 342.9 GT/s | 277.3 GT/s | 192 GT/s |
| Memory Data Rate | 11 Gb/s | 10 Gb/s | 10 Gb/s | 7 Gb/s |
| Memory Bandwidth | 484 GB/s | 480 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 336.5 GB/s |
| ROPs | 88 ROPs | 96 | 64 | 96 |
| L2 Cache | 2816 KB | 3MB | 2MB | 3MB |
| TDP | 250W | 250W | 180W | 250W |
| Transistors | 12 billion | 12 billion | 7.2 billion | 8 billion |
| Die Size | 471 mm² | 471 mm² | 314 mm² | 601 mm² |
| Process Node | 16nm | 16nm | 16nm | 28nm |
Although we typically praise Nvidia's cooling solutions for exhausting waste heat rather than recirculating it in your case, our thermal testing typically shows these designs underperforming the axial fan-based coolers from board partners, which often facilitate lower temperatures and generate less noise.
Nvidia used this feedback to improve the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti's power supply, making it more efficient, thereby dissipating less heat. What results is a lower operating temperature at a given fan speed, or similar temperatures at lower fan speeds. The benefit comes from doubling up on the GeForce GTX 1080's dualFET configuration for each of the card's seven power phases.
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Company representatives also say the 1080 Ti's cooler is better than previous versions. First, the output panel sheds its DVI port, leaving the card with three full-sized DisplayPort connectors and one HDMI interface. For folks who still require DVI connectivity, a dongle will come bundled with the card. The expansion bracket is reportedly redesigned as well, allowing significantly more airflow.
Of course, it remains to be seen how the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti fares in our performance, thermal, acoustic, and power testing. Cards should be arriving soon, so you can count on our usual thorough evaluation in the days to come.
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James Mason Reply19362807 said:AMD is going to have hell of work to do. 699 is good price.
Maybe maybe not, their best card only competes with as 1060 currently, if they don't try to aim higher they don't have to spend the money to do so. -
templarklimek Been waiting quite awhile for this. Delighted it's coming. I'm running 3 980ti's. I'm expecting a nice speed bump from 2 1080ti's SLI'd. Gents I can use the 3rd 980ti as a phycis card now I hope. Thank you.Reply -
fynxer nVidia is basically pre-release countering VEGA and forcing it to sub $499 price with the release of 1080Ti at $699, effectively blowing a big hole in AMD wallet before VEGA even hit the market. I would have payed money to see AMDs face when reality hit them, the ultimate punishment for dragging out the VEGA release like forever. Genius move by nVidia and cheaper gfx card for us, win for all except AMD.Reply
And that's not all, you can buy 1080Ti next week, where is VEGA or even a simple thing as a release date for AMDs elusive power card. VEGA release is at least 2-3 months away during that time nVidia will eat up the market with 1080 $499 and 1080Ti $699 so when VEGA comes there will be only crumbs left.
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Kouroshimo @Fynxer you make it sound like AMD have been holding onto VEGA to punish us and make us wait.Reply -
falchard Looks good, especially if it is at least 25% faster than the 1080. We have been expecting this card for a while, so I don't expect any magic card out of the hat trick here. Dropping the DVI port is definitely a plus. Only next week will tell if this is a hard launch or soft launch. I am still weary of spending a lot on a Pascal based card knowing how they perform in DX12 and Vulkan titles.Reply -
Awesomlego I have a feeling this is going to be 0-7 fps of from the Titan XP. Those specs are basically the same as a Titan XP. Interesting to see how this plays outReply -
nightshadexl Correct me if I'm wrong.. but I've already seen a lot of places having 1080 cards for 600$ or less. Will this be an additional price drop or is NVidia just confirming the price has dropped and we won't see anything change at retailers?Reply -
warmon6 Reply19362874 said:nVidia is basically pre-release countering VEGA and forcing it to sub $499 price with the release of 1080Ti at $699, effectively blowing a big hole in AMD wallet before VEGA even hit the market. I would have payed money to see AMDs face when reality hit them, the ultimate punishment for dragging out the VEGA release like forever. Genius move by nVidia and cheaper gfx card for us, win for all except AMD.
And that's not all, you can buy 1080Ti next week, where is VEGA or even a simple thing as a release date for AMDs elusive power card. VEGA release is at least 2-3 months away during that time nVidia will eat up the market with 1080 $499 and 1080Ti $699 so when VEGA comes there will be only crumbs left.
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You make this sound as though Nvidia is intentionally trying to force Vega to be a lower price and that AMD is holding out on purpose instead of launching it....
1. We dont know what how well vega would really preform.
2. If you paid attention to Nvidia history, they've done this exact pricing scheme before with the 900 series.
GTX 980 was $550 when launched. Then the GTX 980 ti launched at $650. Sometime after the 980 ti launch, the GTX 980 price was lowered to the $450~500 range.
3. If vega perform well, it'll be priced where it needs to be (which could be $650 just like the Fury X).
Now sadly i didn't pay attention to prices for 780 and 780 ti and how prices shuffled around (im guessing they did) but any limited history lookup would of told you that Nvidia is just currently doing what they've done in the past.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to tell my GTX 980ti that it isn't the "ti" flag bearer anymore and a new kid on the block will be taking its place.
EDIT: Changed the quote to match the mods changes to fynxer post.