Screenshot taken from "Introducing the GeForce GTX 1080. Gaming Perfected." (Photo : YouTube/NVIDIA)
It has been an open secret that graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA is planning the release of its upgraded GTX 1080, the Ti variant. However, the company has not announced it officially and the topic was on the rumor mill for months, until a job posting on Linkedln was discovered recently.
There were several information revealed by the Senior Marketing Manger job post, which is now over a month old. The tech community is not that much interested in the details related to the job position -- the juicy part is almost at the end of the page that says, "980 Ti users get first spot in line for 1080 Ti pre-orders, or 'Step Up' offer."
So, owners of the GeForce GTX 980 Ti are prioritized for the still unannounced graphics card. There is also the "Step Up" offer, meaning owners of the old card can opt to upgrade to the newer card. Most likely, they will only have to pay the difference between the prices of the old and new cards. However, since NVIDIA has not made any official announcement pertaining to the rumored card and the details for the promo, all are considered speculations at the moment.
The alleged GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is deemed as the ultimate video graphics card for 4K games It will likely be based on the 16 nm FinFET manufacturing process and Pascal architecture similar to the other graphics cards in the series. It is speculated to be equipped with the GP102 GPU that is also loaded on the GTX Titan X (Pascal), the fastest card of the company, priced at $1,200.
In terms of specifications, the still unannounced card could possibly contain 10 GB of GDDR5X VRAM, 3,328 CUDA Cores, 1,607 Mhz base clock and 1,733 Mhz boost clock. Its memory bus width is at 320-bit and a memory bandwidth of 400 GB per second. It is estimated to have a computing power of 10 TFLOPS.
For comparison purposes, the GTX 1080 contains 8 GB GDDDR5X VRAM, 2,560 CUDA Cores, 1,607 MHz base clock and 1,733 MHz boost clock. The memory bus width is pegged at 256-bit, while memory bandwidth is 320 GB per second. Its computing power is rated at 8.2 TFLOPS and priced $599.
The GTX 1080 Ti is speculated to be unveiled during the CES 2017 event scheduled to happen from Jan. 5 to 8, 2017.
