Friday, 15 September 2017

Rumor: NVIDIA is working on a GeForce GTX 1070 Ti

A new rumor out of China claims NVIDIA is currently working on a new GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card. Just like the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, the GTX 1070 Ti will offer higher performance when compared to the standard GTX 1070. However, this would mean the GTX 1070 Ti will be more or less similar to the GTX 1080 in terms of performance, which makes it seem a bit illogical. The card will be based on NVIDIA’s GP104 Pascal silicon, just like the regular GeForce GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080.

According to the rumor, the GTX 1070 Ti will include 2304 CUDA cores and include 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit bus interface. For reference, the GTX 1070 features 1920 CUDA cores while the GTX 1080 includes 2560 CUDA cores. In the US, the gap between the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 cards isn’t very wide. Currently, the GTX 1080 costs about $150 more than the GTX 1070. If the GTX 1070 Ti is indeed real, NVIDIA will no doubt have a tough time figuring out the pricing. Pricing it closer to the GTX 1070 could potentially be a bad idea as it would hurt the sales of the GTX 1070. On the other hand, pricing it closer to the GTX 1080 could make it seem overpriced.

In India too, the situation is more or less similar. What does make sense, is for NVIDIA to announce a price cut for the GTX 1070, which would allow it to further widen the gap between the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1080. If it can do that, the GTX 1070 Ti has the potential to hurt the sales of the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, which outperforms the regular GTX 1070 and isn’t a whole lot more expensive. In India, the Radeon RX Vega 56 is priced slightly on the higher side, dangerously close to some of the cheaper GTX 1080 cards. If the GTX 1070 Ti does indeed exist, we should see it go official in the coming weeks.