Nvidia Announces GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at 699 USD

Nvidia has been hosting a livestream making some announcements, the new high-end GTX 1080 Ti features 3584 CUDA Cores, 224 Texture Units, a 352-bit memory controller and 11 GB of GDDR5X memory. The card should be faster than a reference Titan X and 30% faster compared to a GTX 1080.

The card has the same "GP102" GPU as the TITAN X Pascal, the GTX 1080 Ti but was slighty cut-down. Interesting is the 352-bit with GDDR5X memory interface, this was not expected. This translates to 11 memory chips on the card which run at 11 GHz (GDDR5X-effective), the memory bandwidth is 484 GB/s. Thiis means the ROP count is would be 88 (from 96 on the TITAN X Pascal), and the TMU count 224.The Ti will boost up to 1600 MHz, but the overclocking potential is much like all GeForce Pascal cards in the 2 GHz range. The GTX 1080 Ti has 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors and TDP around 220 W.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Specifications

• 12 Billion Transistors
• 1.6 GHz Boost, 2 GHz OC capable clock speeds
• 28 SMs, 128 CUDA Cores each
• 3,584 CUDA Cores
• 28 Geometry Units
• 224 Texture Units
• 6 GPCs
• 88 ROP Units
• 352-bit GDDR5x Micron Memory
• 220W TDP

Nvidia also announced it is is lowering the price on Geforce GTX 1080 to 499 USD. Nvidia is also introduced Gameworks for DX12 during the event. Nvidia overall is lowering prices in the enthusiast ranges a bit for sure. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be priced 699 USD and will be released by next week.