Rumor: GTX 1080Ti to be announced on February 28th

[Okjoek]

Trying to ride the Ryzen hype? Not a bad idea to lump events together like this just like with CES. Brings more attention to all of the companies involved.

[Matt_98]

7 hours ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

If two GPUs launch within a week of eachother:

 

A was polished for 9 months

B was rushed out the door with with beta drivers

 

A has used up almost all of its potential already, B has leaps yet to make.

 

Let's say A outperforms B by 10% on launch and loads more people buy A. They suffer, gaming as a whole suffers because devs are using it, it's a shitshow really.

 

 

sounds like 1060 vs 480 story

[VagabondWraith]

5 hours ago, Brehohn said:

Also, I love how everyone here that has a 1080 is going to lose money by selling their 1080 just to buy an overpriced 1080ti (if it comes out). Hell, NOBODY needs a Titan XP when an overclocked 1080 will do near the same. The 1080 will be just fine when it comes to playing 4k/60hz. So what the hell makes someone think that a Ti version is going to be special? I bought a 1070 because I don't care about 4k and if I ever wanted a higher resolution, I would just go for 1440p and the 1070 would still play at or above 60fps. 

 

So why the hell are people wanting to buy this overpriced piece of junk 1080ti? Just overclock your current 1080 and be happy for the next couple years.

TXP is quite a bit faster than a 1080, even overclocked. I went from a GTX 1080 to a Titan Pascal and the performance margin was immediately evident. If you're trying to push over 100 FPS at 1440p or 4K 60Hz and have money to burn, the TXP is the only logical choice.

[Juanitology]

I haven't done a major platform upgrade of my PC in almost 5 years, I'm hoping Ryzen/Vega are finally the time to maje the jump over to team red but I'm getting tired of waiting and I want 1080p to be a memory, not a daily reality.

[revl8er]

I hope they announce it soon.  I recently got a 1080 and want to step-up to a 1080ti once released, but only have 2 more months.

[NumLock21]

In other news Nvidia decided to push the event one day back to Feb 29th.

 

 

[Remixt]

I've been looking for some real news on the 1080Ti every day. Usually I don't let myself get so hyped, but this damn thing has been a rumor for nearly 8 months and my body is ready. Please NVIDIA don't be a tease.

[michaelocarroll007]

21 hours ago, CTR640 said:

Meh, nVidia's prices has been way too ridicolous I'm not even interested anymore in another overpriced product.

well they do have a monopoly on anything stronger then a 480 so yeah... Good job AMD but the most powerful and latest and greatest will pretty much always be "Overpriced" in most peoples eyes

[Drak3]

19 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Seems to me the 1080 Ti is going the way of the Surface phone; eternally rumoured, never released  

To me, it's the Microsoft PixelSense project, the daughter from the OG Microsoft Surface. They'll make some, but stop pursuing it early on because raisins reasons.

[Space Reptile]

22 hours ago, Daring said:

If WCCFTech is to be believed 

[Bensemus]

12 hours ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

If two GPUs launch within a week of eachother:

 

A was polished for 9 months

B was rushed out the door with with beta drivers

 

A has used up almost all of its potential already, B has leaps yet to make.

 

Let's say A outperforms B by 10% on launch and loads more people buy A. They suffer, gaming as a whole suffers because devs are using it, it's a shitshow really.

I still don't see how that is Nvidia's fault. No one wants to buy a product on the promise that it will get better when it's competition is already solid. Nvidia isn't stopping AMD from also launching their GPUs with well tuned drivers.

[PCMasterDebater]

On 2/15/2017 at 4:21 PM, silberdrachi said:

Possibly, drinking the tears of fanboys when their company treats them like dirt while vacuuming out their wallet pleases me.

 

It would almost be worth reading through the 20 million threads that will be created when it happens.

you want to drink boys tears? everyone is into different things i guess...

[BroliviaWilde]

It looks like this is really going to happen finally, the 1080ti to be revealed on 2/28/2017. 

 

Source

 

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Nvidia will be announcing the GTX 1080Ti in six days

Matthew Wilson 8 mins ago Graphics, Highlights V

 

 

It looks like Nvidia is planning a GTX 1080Ti reveal for GDC after all. Last week we learned that Nvidia was planning on holding a ‘fan event’ on the 28th of February but we were unsure whether or not there would be a livestream, calling into question the likelihood of any big announcements. Fortunately, today Nvidia launched a countdown timer for the ‘Ultimate GeForce’ livestream and taking a quick look at the source code for the page reveals references to the long-awaited 1080Ti.

 

doing a "view page source" on http://www.geforce.com/ reveals teh following lines of code:
 

<source src="http://www.nvidia.com/content/events/gdc-2017/GTX1080Ti_Countdown__Hero_1920x1080_h264_2mbps.mp4" type="video/mp4">

 

<source src="http://www.nvidia.com/content/events/gdc-2017/GTX1080Ti_Countdown_WebM_2kbps_variable_vp8.webm" type="video/webm">

 

No predictions on price or performance, i'd say safe to assume all be announced at the reveal. 

[zMeul]

I bet for 999-1000$ ballpark price tag

who's in?

[Sparviero]

With 10bit panels and hdr being a thing this year if one has the luxury to be patient it seems more like a why should I buy now?

[DieselWeasel]

something about Vega on the 28th too. I dont have the money for a new GPU but I still like to see new hardware

[Juanitology]

I'm glad to see I was right and the rumor turned out to be true

[silberdrachi]

On 2/22/2017 at 11:37 AM, Sparviero said:

With 10bit panels and hdr being a thing this year if one has the luxury to be patient it seems more like a why should I buy now?

doesnt everything from Maxwell and newer support 10bit and HDR?

[Sparviero]

9 minutes ago, silberdrachi said:

doesnt everything from Maxwell and newer support 10bit and HDR?

I will honestly plead ignorance. From my limited looking into the subject it seemed like a "yes*". I have avoided looking into it too hard because my impulse buy ability is about 99.9% charged. 

[silberdrachi]

1 minute ago, Sparviero said:

I will honestly plead ignorance. From my limited looking into the subject it seemed like a "yes*". I have avoided looking into it too hard because my impulse buy ability is about 99.9% charged. 

Yeah i looked into it more and it seems like its less of a GPU issue as it is a monitor/implementation issue. Really what we need now is more support for this in programs and games and then it will actually be worth it. Though i suppose if you got one of the super fancy panels you could just watch HDR Bluerays like Linus was doing.

[Lwizzit]

Maybe they're going to announce a price cut across the product range so as to avoid the situation Intel finds it in. 

 

I know. It's not going to happen, but it would actually make sense if they truly want to screw up the Vega launch. 

[dexT]

I've heard that the next generation of GeForce series is coming out this year. The 1080ti might be the worst possible buy.

[Badger_of_doom]

On 15/02/2017 at 9:10 PM, SeventhSanctum said:

I hope they announce the 1080 Ti because I've been waiting for months.

Even if they didnt, AIBs have started shipping samples now and they forecast for March / April / May was being asked of retailers a few weeks back 

[Brehohn]

People are seriously going to upgrade their 1080 to a 1080Ti for a marginal difference in performance? Granted, the 980Ti performed almost identically as the Titan X at the time. But, if your 1080 will already play everything at Ultra and probably even 4K 60fps, then why waste your money? Hell, rumors have it that the 1080Ti won't even have GDDR5X when the cheaper 1080 and more expensive Titan XP have it! WTF NVIDIA?

[tomotomov92]

Just a disclaimer - I'm going to talk a lot of speculations and rumors in this comment.

 

2 hours ago, Brehohn said:

People are seriously going to upgrade their 1080 to a 1080Ti for a marginal difference in performance? Granted, the 980Ti performed almost identically as the Titan X at the time. But, if your 1080 will already play everything at Ultra and probably even 4K 60fps, then why waste your money? Hell, rumors have it that the 1080Ti won't even have GDDR5X when the cheaper 1080 and more expensive Titan XP have it! WTF NVIDIA?

Those rumors are definitely false. Can you believe that NVidia will drop the memory from GDDR5X in 1080 to GDDR5 in 1080Ti?

Also the rumors are showing 10GB of RAM - the thing is that the memory depends on the bus size and the bus on both 1080 and Titan XP allows only 4, 8 (1080) and 6, 12 (titan) (actually I'm not sure if the titan supports 9GB of memory).

 

And about the difference between 1080 and 1080ti - it MAY (please note this!!!) be something like 20% to 30% increased performance with the 1080ti.

1080 is not enough for Ultra with 4k to sustain 60fps.

Currently I'm rocking 1080 G1 Gaming with 80MHz OC (just under 200MHz OC over FE), 6700k@4.5GHz and Predator XB271HU (IPS 16:9 monitor, 1440p, 144hz/165hz OC).

 

I've done the math and 1440p@144hz is a little more demanding than 4k@60fps.

The thing that I'm trying to say is that the 1080 can't sustain 1440p@144fps at all in GTA 5 (which is one of the most standard benchmarks right now) so at that rate it's not possible to sustain 4k@60fps with just one 1080.

 

You can check what a Titan XP in SLI can do with JayZTwoCents video about his computer where he tries them in GTA 5. He was getting a little more than 120fps in 4k.

 

Even if the 1080ti is at about 90% of the performance than the Titan XP and the price a little more than a 1080 right now (about 750-850$) it would be a real upgrade even for everyone that now has a 1080.

 

Also please note that a second hand 1080 will only drop the price from now on and the best time to sell one of those will be in the following situations:

1. A 1080ti comes on the market and it's a real upgrade (can sustain at least 4k@60fps) [you can get the most money for your 1080 in this situation]

2. Vega releases and it can sustain at least 4k@60fps [if the 1080ti can't sustain 4k@60fps this will be the king of the consumer GPUs for a little while]

3. Volta (the successor of Pascal) releases and everyone that can afford the next architecture and the next architecture is actually a lot better than the current one [this will be the least amount of money that you will get for your 1080 in those 3 situations]

 

 

Hope to know a little more after the GDC announcements by both NVidia and AMD but from what I know - we should wait for the third party reviews of all of the products which may take a few weeks after the conference.

Also I hope that ppl don't start selling everything just on the companies' words about their products like they are doing it right now with Ryzen (sorry about this, I'm living in a dream where there are no brand wars and everyone checks the facts about everything several times before posting anything - what a nightmare...).