Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Pascal Enthusiast 4K Graphics Card Officially Confirmed; GTX 980 Ti Owners Will Avail It First [Video]
The forthcoming Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card has been confirmed by Nvidia in while posting about job on LinkedIn. The card will be aimed at the enthusiast market and there will be a special deal for GTX 980 Ti owners before launch.
While AMD is busy prepping the release of Ryzen and Vega, Nvidia is still making moves to keep its lead in the GPU market just before AMD makes its attack in 2017. The company has now officially confirmed the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card existence.
The card is aimed at gaming enthusiast, and folks who own the GeForce GTX 980 Ti will get a special discount before the launch date come around.
The confirmation came via LinkedIn. The information not only highlighted the name of the card, but also the target market.
The following is a description of what is available on Nvidia's LinkedIn page:
- Free game codes for users who report a confirmed bug
- Free game codes to our most active Share and GeForce Forum users
- GTX 980 Ti users get first spot in line for 1080 Ti pre-orders, or "Step Up" offer
As it is right now, folks who own the GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be first in line to get this new card - with a discount attached.
Attempting to play video games at 4K and 60 frames per second is very difficult in PC gaming. This is due to the price, and several games not being fully optimized for 4K. The best known 4K card is right now GTX 1080, and which comes with 7.2 Billion transistors. However, the GTX 1080 Ti on the other hand, will likely come with 12 billion transistors instead.
PC gamers are more excited about the NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti because it will have increased CUDA cores of more than 3300, according to Trusted Reviews. It will have a lower clock speed compared to the GTX 1080 but it will certainly faster thanks to the higher count of CUDA cores.
The GTX 1080 Ti has 1.8 TFLOPs more than the GTX 1080 and just 0.2 TFLOPs less than the Pascal Titan X. NVIDIA is reportedly planning to release the video card at the upcoming CES 2017 event in Las Vegas.
