GTX 1080 Ti To Be Available This March

Nvidia today blows off the smoke out of the rumors surrounding the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. This has been going on for weeks, and in a timely Nvidia fashion at GDC 2017, the card has been announced.

GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition PR 3

The GTX 1080 Ti is based on the GP102 silicon, which is the same GPU utilized by the Titan X Pascal part. With that said, Nvidia has to gimp the specifications to keep it in check at $699. What’s interesting though, is that they never touched the CUDA cores and instead, disabled one of the memory controllers. Leaving the card to feature 11GB of memory with a 352-bit bus width.

GTX 1080 Ti NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) GTX 1080
CUDA Cores 3584 3584 2560
Texture Units 224 224 160
ROPs 88 96 64
Core Clock N/A 1417MHz 1607MHz
Boost Clock 1582MHz 1531MHz 1733MHz
TFLOPs (FMA) 11.5 TFLOPs 11 TFLOPs 9 TFLOPs
Memory Clock 11Gbps GDDR5X 10Gbps GDDR5X 10Gbps GDDR5X
Memory Bus Width 352-bit 384-bit 256-bit
VRAM 11GB 12GB 8GB
FP64 1/32 1/32 1/32
FP16 (Native) 1/64 1/64 1/64
INT8 4:1 4:1 N/A
TDP 250W 250W 180W
GPU GP102 GP102 GP104
Transistor Count 12B 12B 7.2B
Die Size 471mm2 471mm2 314mm2
Manufacturing Process TSMC 16nm TSMC 16nm TSMC 16nm
Launch Date 03/2017 08/02/2016 05/27/2016
Launch Price $699 $1200 MSRP: $599
Founders $699

Physically, the GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition features a better power delivery and thermals compared to the FE cards that came before it. For an instance, the DVI port has been completely removed allowing for a better ventilation area. AIB partners are still welcome to add DVI ports though.

GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition PR 4

Power on the other hand saw use of dual-FET design, with a 7 phase VRM receiving two FETs each. This allows the GTX 1080 Ti to half the current draw per phase, and to efficiently spreading the heat to the modified base plate of the card. Ultimately, the card features 8+6 pin PEG power connectors with a maximum budget of 250W.

GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition PR 2

Performance is still hidden deep in the murky waters since Nvidia only had a comparison with a GTX 980 at the moment. Still, we are expecting a 35% increase of performance over the GTX 1080.

Finally Nvidia will open up the pre-order of the said card by March 2 and will be available everywhere on March 10 at 10 a.m. If you want to score one, go over to THIS LINK. Nvidia is giving away 108 pieces of this bad boy that you shouldn’t miss.

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  1. Leo Bien Durana
    March 1, 2017

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