*Rumour* 1070 Ti (Videocardz.com)

[Kirby Wurm]

https://videocardz.com/72531/rumor-nvidia-preparing-geforce-gtx-1070-ti

I will just say it once, I don’t know if this is true. No one seems to be able to confirm it (yet). The story is that NVIDIA is allegedly working on a new GTX 1070 Ti graphics card with few more cores. According to the rumor, the new card would have 2304 CUDA cores (which I find hard to believe because it would very close to 1080 and the gap is not really that big). So as much as I love making charts for specs comparison, I think it’s too early to make one here.

Why would NVIDIA make GTX 1070 Ti? Well, it’s quite obvious that Vega 56 is faster in this price segment (at least when official price is considered). NVIDIA could either lower the price of GTX 1080 or bring a new part.

Partially the reason why I’m posting this rumor is this photograph, clearly showing ASUS GTX 1070 Ti STRIX O8G. It may just be a typo, which may just be adding unnecessary fuss to the story, or it may be a real thing. Whatever it is, it has been a while since we had a rumor about a new high-end card from NVIDIA, so have a look:

Sounds like tosh to me. No reason to EOL the 1080 when they could simply drop the price (not much point in that either when it beats Vega 64 comfortably). There's too small a gap between that and the 1070 to introduce a card to combat Vega 56 surely?

 

[JediFragger]

Yeah, sounds like rubbish. It'd be too close to the 1080 to be worth developing imo.

 

[MyBrainz]

Wouldnt surprise me if Nvidia release this, just because.. they can.

A lot of 1070 owners would still see it as an upgrade

Then there is the miners.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

Hmmm look like 1070 Ti is not a rumour, it is true, techpowerup added 1070 Ti to GPU database, it did not have 2304 CUDA cores.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/3010/geforce-gtx-1070-ti

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is a graphics card by NVIDIA that is not released yet. Built on the 16 nm process, and based on the GP104 graphics processor, in its GP104 variant, the card supports DirectX 12.0. The GP104 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 314 mm² and 7,200 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 1080, which uses the same GPU but has all 2560 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti to reach the product's target shader count. It features 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs. NVIDIA has placed 8,192 MB GDDR5 memory on the card, which are connected using a 256-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 1442 MHz, which can be boosted up to 1645 MHz, memory is running at 2002 MHz.

1070 Ti have 2048 CUDA cores enabled from salvaged defective GTX 1080 GPUs soldered on GTX 1070 PCB with 8GB GDDR5 memory instead of GTX 1080 PCB with 8GB GDDR5X and lowered memory bandwidth.

Shame. Wished 1070 Ti has GDDR5X then I probably would buy it if it cost £350-399 and Nvidia probably will cut GTX 1070 price to counter Vega 11 launch.

 

[DONOHUE07]

Has there ever been a midrange 'Ti' before?

By midrange I mean in the middle of 1080ti 1050i esq cards

 

[JediFragger]

Has there ever been a midrange 'Ti' before?

560Ti?

 

[Armadillo]

Wonder where it will fit (pricewise).

Unless they cut prices on the whole range, seems like a strange fit. 1070 can be had for £350-£400. 1080 can be had for £450 (rarely) - £500.

If 1070 is lowered much it could eat into 1060 sales, but if it's not and the ti goes above it, may as well just buy 1080. Unless 1070 is going eol and ti will just replace it.

 

[greatash]

Yeah, sounds like rubbish. It'd be too close to the 1080 to be worth developing imo.

there is a big gap between 1070 and 1080, around 30%

if this comes in at £375-400 it will kill vega 56

 

[Kaapstad]

My guess is it will be exactly the same as the GTX 1080 but with a few shaders disabled.

This means it will use the latest GDDR5X memory same as the 1080 and may even totally replace the old 1070.

The slight bump in performance will also keep it in front of the Vega56 cards.

 

[Sasahara]

Yeah it will probably be a replacement for the 1070, just a little faster to be better than an RX VEGA 56.

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

1070 Ti have 2048 CUDA cores enabled from salvaged defective GTX 1080 GPUs soldered on GTX 1070 PCB with 8GB GDDR5 memory instead of GTX 1080 PCB with 8GB GDDR5X and lowered memory bandwidth.

So higher clocks and more cores than a current 1070, lower priced than a 1080 but with the non-X GDDR5 ?

This thing is going to be catnip for miners.

 

[opethdisciple]

Wasn't there once a 960ti?

 

[Gripen90]

Wasn't there once a 960ti?

GTX 660Ti

I think if the 1070Ti gets released then it'll replace the vanilla 1070 on the shelves, and be a direct competitor to the upcoming Vega 56 custom cooled cards

 

[nashathedog]

My guess is it will be exactly the same as the GTX 1080 but with a few shaders disabled.

This means it will use the latest GDDR5X memory same as the 1080 and may even totally replace the old 1070.

The slight bump in performance will also keep it in front of the Vega56 cards.

If they are releasing this it suggests they're in no rush to release Volta and who can blame them.

 

[TNA]

If they are releasing this it suggests they're in no rush to release Volta and who can blame them.

Really hope not. I want Volta soon

 

[nashathedog]

Really hope not. I want Volta soon

Pascal does seem a bit old hat now.

 

[Kaapstad]

If they are releasing this it suggests they're in no rush to release Volta and who can blame them.

If NVidia do launch the 1070 Ti as I said above, identical to the 1080 with the same memory, cooler and PCB but with just some shaders disabled it will cost them very little and could even save them money if they discontinue the old 1070 and streamline production.

This will leave the door open for them to launch Volta whenever they feel they need to as the 1070 Ti will not be costing them any extra to produce.

 

[Gibbo]

If NVIDIA do this, they could launch at say £399 but it would not last long, before you know it the price would be pushed massively higher due to shortages.

1070 right now should be £349 inc, the simple fact is we can hardly get to that due to severe limited stock and then board partners are simply not interested in selling at low prices any more, simply because they cannot meet demand levels so they charge more as any business would particular when margins are pretty slim to start.

 

[HeX]

Not like they haven't done it in the past. Remember the good old GTX260 216.

 

[scritchyrat]

If NVIDIA do this, they could launch at say £399 but it would not last long, before you know it the price would be pushed massively higher due to shortages.

1070 right now should be £349 inc, the simple fact is we can hardly get to that due to severe limited stock and then board partners are simply not interested in selling at low prices any more, simply because they cannot meet demand levels so they charge more as any business would particular when margins are pretty slim to start.

Is that conjecture, or more premonition based? A wink will suffice in your answer!