Brent's NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti Notes

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While you likely already have this data on NVIDIA's new GTX 1080 Ti, here is Brent's takeaway on the specifics you need to know about the new GPU.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - 35% faster than GTX 1080, 3584 cores, 11 GB at 11GHz GDDR5X chips, 1.6GH frequency boost, but overclocked to 2GHz at 66c in the demo, 7-phase switching power supply, twice as much surface area on cooler, 1582MHz stock out of the box, 250 watts, claimed to be faster than titan x, $699 for the price, coming next week, 220W TDP, 352-bit bus (11GHz x 32), 7-phase dual FET, 250A power, 14 dual FETs, new thermal design, vapor chamber cooling, 2x cooling areas
  • 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
  • 11GB, 11Gbps
  • 352-bit GDDR5x Micron Memory
  • 220W TDP
  • Faster than Titan X
  • $699

GeForce GTX 1080 Pricing 2/28/17 – Price drop to $499

NVIDIA has a redesigned vapor chamber cooler that is being used on the GTX 1080 Ti and it cools better and allows the card to run cooler than the one designed for the GeForce GTX 1080. NVIDIA says that the doubled the cooling area on the vapor chamber GeForce GTX 1080 Ti If the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1080 Ti were both running at 220W with their perspective coolers, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti would run 5C cooler and 2.5dB quieter thanks to the improvements.''
''There will be overclocked versions of the GeForce GTX 1080 8GB coming with 11 GBPS GDDR5X memory as well as a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 video card with faster 9 GBPS GDDR5 memory coming soon.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition will launch first and then AIC cards will launch at a later date. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be available from the AICs at the MSRP.

We now have a card in our hand and are moving forward with the review.
 
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Yea, I'm in. Purchase as soon as I see the AIB card I want. Still looking forward to the review!
 
I'm as team red as it gets when it comes to video cards.. but these are some damn impressive numbers. But with the price point and the "available in 1 week" it makes me winder if they're worried about Vega.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this card, may be the best value ever offered in a halo product as opposed to the product in the stack directly below it, which in this case would be the 1080 gtx. Normally you would pay an additional 100+$ for performance in the world of a 10% increase. If you actually get ~35% more than the 1080 for $699, could this actually be considered a good. . .VALUE!? Blasphemy, I know, but for a lot of people this will be the only true 4k solution that matters for quite a while, and with weighted value over a 1080, we are entering into new territory of a reasonable enthusiast class market.
 
Finally my next card is in the corner. Maybe I can move back to 4K now?
 
I pre-ordered one, but I'm going to sit on it until the reviews are out.
 
Looks like a beefy card.

I think it's time to ditch Surround, get a couple of these and a 40" 4K monitor.......

gonna need to save my coupons, green stamps, empty bottles and birthday money.
 
I'll be getting one after I can compare the improved Nvidia edition vs. the AIB offerings
 
Nvidia.Com showing founders edition 1080 for $549. . .how. . .unfortunate.

non-FE 1080's are around the $500 mark from what I've seen. It is a bit sad the FE is still $50 higher, but at least that's going away with the 1080Ti.
 
I don't really get why NVidia is trying to make such a big deal out of the slightly faster GDDR RAM on the video cards. AIB's could have used faster RAM whenever they wanted.

Pricing wise, Amazon is showing at about $550+

Newegg is showing one card at $499 (as a special sale) a few other cards in the low $500s (also as sales) and most are $540-$600 with pre-waterblocked cards in the high $600's to mid $700s.

Best Buy has one Founder's Edition for $550 with the rest sill at about $700. Otherwise their air cooled 1080s run from about $600-$725
 
"11 GB at 11GHz GDDR5X chips"

NVIDIA just wanted to have a card where they could say, "The memory goes to eleven," didn't they?

Yes. But they keep killing off the drummer.

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(But I would still wait to see where Vega falls...)
 
As much as an AMD hopeful as I want to be, this card has my name all over it. I'm a cheaper bastard too, but the "value" in this screams at me. I like my 1070 plenty, but at 1440P it's getting pushed a tiny bit for my needs at very very very rare times. This would put me over the top for a good long while I think. Bought into the Ryzen hpye, not going to repeat for Vega.
 
I don't really get why NVidia is trying to make such a big deal out of the slightly faster GDDR RAM on the video cards. AIB's could have used faster RAM whenever they wanted.

Because it was hard getting a hold of these higher binned chips.
 
Because it was hard getting a hold of these higher binned chips.

1080's have been out for almost a year and 1060s (which use slower memory to begin with) have been out for about six months and how many other companies besides GPU manufacturers are using GDDR memory in bulk. It almost feels like NVidia has a monopsony position on the GDDR5x and faster end of the GDDR5 markets.
 
1080's have been out for almost a year and 1060s (which use slower memory to begin with) have been out for about six months and how many other companies besides GPU manufacturers are using GDDR memory in bulk. It almost feels like NVidia has a monopsony position on the GDDR5x and faster end of the GDDR5 markets.

I don't think they have a monopoly on it, but they are probably the biggest consumer. Then again, it's not NVidia the company buying it all, it's ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA, etc buying it to make Nvidia-based cards.
 
Been waiting for this. Just the thing I need to play with both machine learning algorithms and modern games. Will be upgrading this summer.
 
And here sits I, a lowly 1070 pleb with no budget because we needed a more reliable vehicle.... For some reason, my family didn't see the logic of getting good enough gaming equipment so that we didn't ever need to go anywhere.

Your move, AMD. Keep it competitive so I can look forward to being able to afford something again in 6 years.
 
And here sits I, a lowly 1070 pleb with no budget because we needed a more reliable vehicle.... For some reason, my family didn't see the logic of getting good enough gaming equipment so that we didn't ever need to go anywhere.

Your move, AMD. Keep it competitive so I can look forward to being able to afford something again in 6 years.

Pay monthly health care premium of 725.00 or buy video card..... This is very difficult!
 
If anyone is curious, these cards are supposed to be at Microcenter next week on the 9th or 10th.

I will def be there early.

Also, Asus is supposed to have their cards in stock along with the founders edition next week.
 
I don't think they have a monopoly on it, but they are probably the biggest consumer. Then again, it's not NVidia the company buying it all, it's ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, EVGA, etc buying it to make Nvidia-based cards.

There was a release saying that AIB's can buy faster memory FROM Nvidia for increased performance on 10xx series parts starting now. . .

I'm too lazy to pull up source but it was part of GDC announcements. This would make me think that these AIBs can ONLY get this ram from Nvidia that has a contract with Micron. . .
 
Please 4k bench this on Ryzen and 7700, or is that taboo still to ask. Seeing other reviews showing the 1800X having a higher FPS on the two games done at 4k has me curious
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this card, may be the best value ever offered in a halo product as opposed to the product in the stack directly below it, which in this case would be the 1080 gtx. Normally you would pay an additional 100+$ for performance in the world of a 10% increase. If you actually get ~35% more than the 1080 for $699, could this actually be considered a good. . .VALUE!? Blasphemy, I know, but for a lot of people this will be the only true 4k solution that matters for quite a while, and with weighted value over a 1080, we are entering into new territory of a reasonable enthusiast class market.

According to the numbers, it's the fastest Ti ever made over the x80 variant. The 780Ti was 18% faster, the 980Ti was 25% faster, and this is 35% faster.

The 980Ti was 5% slower than the Titan X, and the 1080Ti is 5% faster than the Titan XP. +10%

The performance value is very high on this card.
 
Makes me excited for what Nvidia have with Volta. I have mo plans on upgrading from a 1080 to TI.
 
My 1080 Strix 1835 card does very nicely with 4k content.

I'm super excited about the 1080 ti.
 
whelp *throws GTX 1080 in the trash*
Considering mine is still destroying everything maxed out, I'm content with my card. The Ti versions are inevitable. I do understand your sentiment though. I'm eager to see AMD's offerings.
 
still waiting for that to take effect on Amazon...and waiting...
You won't see it till the 1080ti hits the streets 10:1. And even then prices will be elevated till supply = demand on 1080ti.

Once again early buyers will get gouged...big time.
 
There was a release saying that AIB's can buy faster memory FROM Nvidia for increased performance on 10xx series parts starting now. . .

I'm too lazy to pull up source but it was part of GDC announcements. This would make me think that these AIBs can ONLY get this ram from Nvidia that has a contract with Micron. . .

Yeah, I've seen that wording in the releases. I'm not sure how the contract all works out there on that. Are they buying direct from NVidia? Or is it just some licensing deal?
 
Got the Titan XP on launch day... Thinking I could have saved 700 bucks by waiting a few months.
 
While this is most likely in response to Vega, I don't think it's because they're afraid of Vega, per se. The 1080Ti is practically identical to the Titan XP. I'd think they're trying to avoid the situation the 4870 put them in. The AMD competitor card shows up, isn't the fastest, but it's close and costs a lot less. Right now TitanXP performance costs $1200. You can't let your competitor bring out something even close in performance at half the price. So before it arrives, you release a slightly tweaked version of the $1200 card, enough to make it distinct from the previous version and charge $700 for it. Now a $600 Vega that delivers 90% of the performance of a TitanXP isn't such a "Holy Shit!" card. It's just an inline competitor to the now properly priced 1080Ti.
 
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