Those with deep enough pockets can pick up a Founders Edition GTX 1080 Ti directly from Nvidia on March 9, with partner cards arriving in the following weeks. And with competition at this end of the market some months away-AMD has pencilled in a Q2 2017 release for Vega-there's little to stop Nvidia continuing to charge a premium for its top-of-the-range graphics cards, even if it's not the most expensive the company has released. The likelihood of getting a fully unlocked GP102 GPU with all its cores enabled (a strategy taken with 780 Ti) seems slim. In all but memory capacity, which sits at an odd 11GB, the GTX 1080 Ti is a carbon copy of the Titan XP with a slightly higher clock speed. Plus it's a quiet graphics card, in its Founders Edition form at least, thanks to the improvements Nvidia has made to its iconic all-metal shroud.īut for all of Nvidia's bluster, it's hard not to be just a teensy bit disappointed. It's the first graphics card since the Titan XP that can play many games in 4K at 60FPS without having to fiddle with settings-you just whack everything on ultra and start playing. It's a hell of a lot faster than the GTX 1080 too-which now sits in a "cheaper" price bracket of £500/$500-by as much as 30 percent. Still, Nvidia was true to its word: the GTX 1080 Ti is indeed the fastest gaming graphics card money can buy-even faster than the £1,100/$1,200 e-peen extension that is the Titan X Pascal. Besides, surely those Americans in attendance at Nvidia's grand GTX 1080 Ti reveal in San Francisco had more pressing things to worry about? Life isn't all graphics cards and iPhones when your health is on the line. I find it odd that a room full of otherwise seemingly normal human beings (press excluded) would cheer at being charged £700/$700 for the GTX 1080 Ti, even if it does claim to be the fastest gaming graphics card money can buy.Īfter all, that £700 could otherwise be spent on an entire gaming PC, the latest iPhone, a return flight from London to Los Angeles, or 139 bottles of the finest Scottish craft beer. Specs at a glance: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Tiģx DisplayPort 1.4, 1x HDMI 2.0b with support for 4K60 10/12b HEVC Decodeįounders Edition (as reviewed): £700/$700.
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