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The 980 Ti was only 7% slower than the GTX Titan X. There is room for the 1080 Ti to exist in the Pascal product stack.
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Rumor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 10GB memory
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perhaps, but nvidia is not going to launch the 1080 ti for some reason if it doesn't feel the need to, and i don't blame them. if your competitor has no card in the high end, why would you even bother to release a 1080 ti?
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To make money off of the silicon that didn't make the cut for the Titan X. But you're right. It's not like NVIDIA is exactly hurting for cash at this point, either. Those chips could go into the garbage and NVIDIA wouldn't bat an eye.
When 40-50% * Titan X sales < projected 1080Ti sales, that's when. Titan X projections have to fall enough to make a 1080Ti product launch worth the investment (marketing, programming different fuses, FE branding, gimping the cooler, new driver that gimps older cards, etc etc etc).
Also worth noting that any 1080ti will not have the same Int8 function support as the Pascal Titan, which has moved now fully into the prosumer world under Nvidia (why there is no IHV for this product IMO just like we see with Quadro/Tesla/etc and possibly sold more exclusively like those at Nvidia's certified Partners/Solution Providors and more broadly in OEM-system builds).
So they protect the Titan to some extent as a 1080ti would have limited benefits outside the PC gaming sector.
We are also to see how they strip back the 1080ti compared to the Pascal Titan in other ways as well.
One big variable difference between Maxwell and Pascal; with Maxwell the Titan X was a full SM/core GPU, but now it is cut and missing a couple of the SMMs and associated cores; 3840 is the full GP102 and the Titan Pascal has 3584.
This is important because the difference between Maxwell Titan and 980ti was down to what has happened with the Pascal Titan, so this means it may or may not have further cuts as well to SMM/cores, or maybe just given standard GDDR5 384-bit memory and less VRAM than available in the Titan Pascal along with the lack of the same Int8 support.
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So they protect the Titan to some extent as a 1080ti would have limited benefits outside the PC gaming sector.
We are also to see how they strip back the 1080ti compared to the Pascal Titan in other ways as well.
One big variable difference between Maxwell and Pascal; with Maxwell the Titan X was a full SM/core GPU, but now it is cut and missing a couple of the SMMs and associated cores; 3840 is the full GP102 and the Titan Pascal has 3584.
This is important because the difference between Maxwell Titan and 980ti was down to what has happened with the Pascal Titan, so this means it may or may not have further cuts as well to SMM/cores, or maybe just given standard GDDR5 384-bit memory and less VRAM than available in the Titan Pascal along with the lack of the same Int8 support.
Cheers
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