Nvidia's GTX 1080 Ti, the company's most powerful graphics card after Titan, could headline the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next January 2017 through a Keynote address by the company's co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
The Consumer Electronics Show is one of the biggest consumer electronics and technology show in the world, and this will be the very first time that Nvidia will give the keynote address at Las Vegas. So rumors have been floating around that the company will unveil the highly anticipated GTX 1080 Ti graphics card in the said event, WCCFTech reported.
The Keynote will be conducted by the Nvidia CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, and the company is teasing major announcements regarding a new gaming and virtual reality products as well as developments in AI and self-driving cars during the show.
Headlines & Global News learned that the keynote address may consist of a presentation on topics like Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Automated Cards, and Gaming etc.
Previous reports suggested that the GTX 1080 Ti will directly compete with AMD's upcoming "Vega 10" high-end graphics cards. Those cards will carry RX 500 series brand names or updated "Fury" series brand names.
The GTX 1080 Ti is slightly higher than its predecessor, GTX 1080, with 2,560 CUDA cores and 1,606 MHz of base clock. Numerous experts have already started speculating at the cost, with many saying that price will range between $630 to $1,200. With that said, this makes Nvidia's most expensive single GPU.
The GTX 1080 Ti is expected to clock at 1,503MHz and accelerate to 1,623MHz. The graphics card will also be equipped with 52 stream processor unit and DDR5 memory. In other areas, Ti is expected to provide 10.8 trillion floating-point operations and 12GB of VRAM.
Because of these specs, the chip will most probably compete with its predecessors like GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, which may enter the market in the second quarter of 2017 after its launch.
Meanwhile, the CES event promises to jolt more than 165,000 attendees who will check out the latest and greatest that tech has to offer, across 2.4 million net square feet of exhibitions. More than 6,500 reporters will be there from more than 150 countries to get a jump on the news.