By Kevin Lee
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has been arguably the most anticipated graphics card of the new year. The 1080 series is Nvidia’s top-end GPU for gamers, and this year’s iteration even outpaces the Titan X in several regards.
Priced at $699 or £699 (about AU$930) – the same as the pre-discounted Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 – this card offers stunning performance that’s often equal to the Titan X. Beyond being Nvidia’s most impressive GPU to date, it’s a showcase of how far the company’s Pascal architecture has come in less than a year.
Specifications
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is packing 3584 CUDA cores, 224 texture units and 88 ROPs. It comes with just a notch less video RAM than the god-like Titan X, but the 1080 Ti’s 11GB complement of GDDR5X VRAM is tuned to a faster 11Gbps – clearly Nvidia is a fan of Spinal Tap – making this Nvidia’s quickest Pascal card.
There’s no question the Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti is a performance beast, running at a base 1480MHz frequency and 1582MHz when boosted.
True, the GTX 1080 boosts to a higher 1,733MHz; however, the Ti model is running with more cores and VRAM, boosting performance in both benchmarks and …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac