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SAN FRANCISCO — At GDC 2022, Nvidia announced its long-expected GTX 1080 Ti. The GPU, which has been rumored since at least the Nvidia Titan X'southward unveil, is a stiff upgrade compared with Nvidia's previous top-terminate consumer bill of fare, the GTX 1080.

The gap betwixt the GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan 10 is one of the smallest we've seen Nvidia field. Like Titan Ten, the 1080 Ti is a GP102 design that relies on GDDR5X memory to hit its bandwidth targets. Information technology'due south a 12 billion transistor role, with 3584 cores, 224 texture units, and 88 ROPS (3584:224:88). That's viii fewer ROPS than the Titan Ten. Memory bus width is likewise slightly lower, at 352-bit instead of the full 384-$.25 on Titan X. This difference is compensated for with faster RAM — the Titan X uses 10Gbps retention, while the GTX 1080 Ti raises uses memory rated for 11Gbps. "11", in fact, is something of a theme for this card. It has 11GB of RAM, eleven/12 the ROPs of the Titan Ten, 11Gbps RAM, and 11/12 of the memory bandwidth.

Co-ordinate to Nvidia, the performance spring betwixt the GTX 1080 and the 1080 Ti is the largest boost they've e'er fielded. The GTX 780 Ti was ~18% faster than the GTX 780, the GTX 980 Ti was 25% faster, on boilerplate, than the 980, and the new GTX 1080 Ti will be (according to Nvidia), roughly 35% faster than the 1080. At the unveiling event, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang declared that the 1080 Ti would really be faster than the Titan X (he didn't specify by how much.)

Nvidia isn't only announcing the 1080 Ti today, they're also making a minor update available to the already-launched GTX 1080 and GTX 1060. OEMs will have the option to build GTX 1080'south with 11Gbps GDDR5X (up from 10Gbps) and GTX 1060's with 9Gbps GDDR5X (up from 8Gbps). That'south a relatively minor crash-land and the core revision presumably remains the same — we'll have to wait and see how OEMs cost the cards and whether they ship hardware with higher clock speeds. TSMC'southward 14nm process is presumably mature plenty now that nosotros might encounter slightly college clock speeds.

The GTX 1080 Ti wasn't the only announcement at Nvidia's GDC event, but it's likely to control the nearly attention. Nvidia also announced expansions to its Ansel software, new DX12-compatible GameWorks libraries, and a DX12 GameWorks VR version that leverages Microsoft's Straight Compute standard. Nvidia also announced a new VR FCAT organization for monitoring dropped frames and a better sense of how VR performs. Previously, FCAt required an expensive defended 2d system for better video capture and analysis. Past offering a software solution with visualization tools and multiple performance metrics, Nvidia is boosting the kind of assay reviewers and users can perform.

And the price? $699. That'southward honestly amend than I expected, and it's one heck of a deal. It'southward likewise a smart strategy for Nvidia — by pricing at this level now, they ensure electric current dominance of the high stop of the marketplace. When the Vega (or RX Vega) really launches, Nvidia will be well-positioned to respond with price cuts and strong performance (whichever is required).

As part of the GTX 1080 Ti launch, Nvidia as well appear that the GeForce 1080'due south new MSRP is $499. The 1080 Ti volition be available "side by side week" according to Jen-Hsun Huang. An exact mean solar day was not specified.