NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Release Date, Specs Rumors: Highly Anticipated GPU to Launch at GDC 2017 This March?

By Georgia Gana, Christian Post Contributor Wednesday, February 22, 2017

NVIDIA's much-talked-about and highly anticipated graphics processing unit (GPU), the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, will be launched next month — if the latest reports are to be believed.

According to Hot Hardware, sources from the chipmaker's manufacturing chain in Taiwan have revealed that the upcoming graphics card will arrive at retail sometime between March 20 and 23.

Given this particular release window, it's possible that NVIDIA will officially introduce the GTX 1080 Ti at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), to be held in San Francisco from Feb. 27 to March 3. Specifically, the company will be hosting a GeForce GTX gaming celebration on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m. PST/9:30 p.m. EST.

In terms of technical specifications, the upcoming Pascal-based graphics card is expected to use the GP102 architecture and will be built using the 16 nm FinFET manufacturing process. It will reportedly feature 3,328 CUDA cores, 10.8 teraflops of power and 10 GB of GDDR5X random-access memory (RAM).

Additionally, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will have a base clock speed of 1,503 MHz, a boost clock speed of 1,623 MHz and a memory clock speed of 10,000 MHz. Other notable features include a 384-bit memory bus, a memory bandwidth of 480 GB/s and a thermal design power (TDP) of 250 watts.

The GTX 1080 Ti is expected to have a price tag of about $900. In terms of performance, the graphics card will sit in between the GeForce GTX 1080 ($600) and the GeForce Titan X ($1,200).

Though many gamers and tech enthusiasts have been waiting for this specific graphics card, the decision to purchase the GTX 1080 Ti will not be an easy one as it is expected to face fierce competition from AMD's next-generation GPUs.

NVIDIA's rival is also scheduled to release its new Vega-based GPUs in March. There are even some who speculate that NVIDIA might have chosen this particular launch window in order to capture some of the sales that would have otherwise gone to AMD.

Regardless, gamers are up for an exciting month as they will finally get to see the prowess of these highly anticipated graphics cards.