Report: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to launch between 20-23 March

According to a report published by Nordic Hardware, Nvidia will launch its long awaited GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in the last week of March. The dates of 20-23rd March are specifically mentioned. The tech site received the launch timing tip via Taiwanese graphics card manufacturer sources. Sources attributed with supplying this information didn't supply any new specifications data.

Taiwanese graphics card makers are now beginning to churn out their partner designs, so it is thought that at launch, or very shortly after launch, there will be third party cooler design GTX 1080 Ti models available alongside Nvidia's reference design.

Nordic Hardware compiled a comparison table outlining the current expectations for GTX 1080 Ti specs alongside cards that have already shipped. I've reproduced that below:

	Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti	Nvidia Titanium X	GeForce GTX 1080	GeForce GTX Titanium X
Architecture	Pascal	Pascal	Pascal	Maxwell
GPU	GP102	GP102	GP104-400	GM200
Manufacturing tech	16nm Finfet	16nm Finfet	16nm Finfet	28nm
Cuda cores	3328 pcs (?)	3584 st	2560 st	3072 st
Base frequency	1503MHz	1417MHz	1607MHz	1000MHz
Frequency Boost	1623MHz	1531MHz	1733MHz	1075MHz
Performance	10.8 TFLOPS	11 TFLOPS	8.87 TFLOPS	6.6 TFLOPS
Memory	10GB?	12GB GDDR5X	8GB GDDR5X	12GB of GDDR5
Memory Frequency	10,000MHz	10,000MHz	10,000MHz	7,000MHz
Memory Bus	384 bit	384 bit	256 bit	384 bit
Memory Bandwidth	480GB / s	480GB / s	320GB / s	336.5GB / s
TDP	250W	250W	180W	250 W

Next week, on the same day of the AMD 'Capsaicin and Cream' event coinciding with the GDC 2017, Nvidia has arranged the GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration. "You won't want to miss this," teases Nvidia, of its San Francisco event. Hopefully there will be at least a teasing glimpse of the GTX 1080 Ti and/or some performance and hardware specs released before the launch. Will it be enough to diminish any newfound AMD Vega awe among hardware enthusiasts?

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Is the author sure those “already released” cards should be labelled “Titanium X”, and not “Titan X”?

Maybe they come with a free Ford.

Assuming this is true, it is interesting that they are launching now rather than making off like bandits with their massively overpriced 1080 for another couple of months (not that I blame them, it is AMD's fault that they only managed two small Polaris chips where nVidia managed a full lineup).

On those predicted specs this will be faster than the Titan X once it gets custom coolers from the AIBs, so I guess nVidia have decided that this is about as good as the 1080 Ti will get. Releasing now will either beat Vega before it is even released, or will give the 1080Ti a couple of months of pricing as an uncontested performance king before Vega challenges/beats it.

Now to see if Vega is a success or not. I have a feeling it will be a “not”, but I could be pleasantly surprised.

CAPTAIN_ALLCAPS
Now to see if Vega is a success or not. I have a feeling it will be a “not”, but I could be pleasantly surprised.

I like everything I've seen about Vega (efficiency gain and vastly improved clock rate especially), but like you I'm feeling cynical. That said, AMD have already surprised a lot of people with the reach of Ryzen's performance, lack of verification notwithstanding.

iworrall
Is the author sure those “already released” cards should be labelled “Titanium X”, and not “Titan X”?

I have noticed that certain countries actually refer to the Titans as Titaniums. AquaComputer always refer to them as Titaniums.

Report: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to launch between 20-23 March

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