NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti now rumored to be released at CES 2017

A new rumor surfaced on the product that will sit inbetween the GeForce GTX 1080 and Titan X (Pascal), the 1080 Ti surfaces again. Word right now is that the card will be released in the CES timeframe (1st week of January 2017).

The rumor originates from zol.com.cn who also claims a 1503 GPU frequency with a 1623 Boost freuqency. But they might have well taken the specs from charts like ours (we can calculate stff like TMUs/ memory bandwidth  and GFLOPs based on specs)

The product has 52 shader clusters (SM) totalling towards 3328 shader processors and DDR5 memory. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be using the GP102 silicon, similar as used for Pascal TitanX, however it has 4 out of 30 shader processor clusters disabled, so that is 3,328 shader processors. If you do the math then your TMU count would get to 208 with a ROP count of 96. According to the screenshot the GPU itself will be clocked at 1503 MHz and 1623 MHz on the GPU Boost. Two things really jump out here, the memory remains GDDR5 not GDDR5X as Pascal Titan X is using and then the shader count has been decreased towards 3328 shader cores, which is still 768 more compared to the GeForce GTX 1080. 

The numbers add up tyowards a 10.8 GFLOP/s single precision performing product.  Charted up it looks like this:

Reference GeForce	Titan X	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080	GTX 1070	GTX 1060
	(2016 edition)
GPU	GP102-400-A1	GP102-200-A1	GP104-400-A1	GP104-200-A1	GP106-400-A1
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal
Transistor count	12 Billion	12 Billion	7.2 Billion	7.2 Billion	4.4 Billion
Fabrication Node	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm	TSMC 16 nm
CUDA Cores	3,584	3,328	2,560	1,920	1,280
SMMs / SMXs	28	26	20	15	10
ROPs	96	96	64	64	48
GPU Clock Core	1,417 MHz	1,503 MHz	1,607 MHz	1,506 MHz	1,506 MHz
GPU Boost clock	1,531 MHz	1,623 MHz	1,733 MHz	1,683 MHz	1,709 MHz
Memory Clock	2,500 MHz	1,250 MHz	1,250 MHz	2,000 MHz	2,000 MHz
Memory Size	12 GB	12 GB	8 GB	8 GB	3 GB / 6 GB
Memory Bus	384-bit	384-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit
Memory Bandwidth	480 GB/s	384 GB/s	320 GB/s	256 GB/s	192 GB/s
FP Performance	11.0 TFLOPS	10.0 TFLOPS	9.0 TFLOPS	6.45 TFLOPS	4.61 TFLOPS
GPU Thermal Threshold	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C	94 Degrees C
TDP	250 Watts	250 Watts	180 Watts	150 Watts	120 Watts
Launch MSRP ref	$1200	$899 (esti)	$599/$699	$379/$449	$249/$299

 
GDDR5 memory would bring in 384GB/s of memory bandwidth, which would be the deal-breaker over a Titan X with its 480GB/s of bandwidth. It is still more then the 1080 though. The card will get a 250 Watt TDP. Pricing wise we know nothing of course, but the 1080 is at 699 USD, the Titan X at 1200 USD .. so somewhere in the middle ?

We are not sure why the product qould launch at CES though, if DDR5 is used, productions should not be an issue and the Christmas season would make way more sense.