Conclusion

...Titan X owners may be miffed, yet GTX 1080 Ti, built from the same foundations, was always in the works.

Nvidia has been financially milking the upper echelons of the GeForce GTX 10-series GPUs since their inception last year. The cream on the top has been the Titan X card, built using the bigger Pascal die. A lack of serious competition in this segment has translated to a single-card price north of £1,000.

Being a smart company, Nvidia knows that it may not have performance hegemony for the whole of this year, as AMD is busying readying its next-generation Vega architecture that will power high-performance Radeon cards.

This is why the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti finally makes a bow. Ostensibly the same GPU as the Titan X, with a tweak here and a tweak there, this new card brings playable 4K frame rates to a much lower price point.

First available in the Founders Edition livery and starting at $699, GTX 1080 Ti is different insofar as Nvidia AICs will be allowed to make their own designs, differentiating on coolers, frequencies and performance.

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is hardly a surprise, but the concomitant release and reduction in GTX 1080 pricing, along with the availability of an OC part for it and the GTX 1060, serves to solidify GeForce as the premium gaming hardware in early 2017.

Specifically for the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition, though Nvidia says it has an improved cooling design, our research indicates the underlying GPU is still being held back, and we expect to see more performance and quieter acoustics as the better AICs turn their hand to designs.

Titan X owners may be miffed, yet GTX 1080 Ti, built from the same foundations, was always in the works. It is now the fastest consumer graphics card in the world... at almost half the price. Recommended.

The Good		The Bad
A Titan X in all but name Benchmarks well when OC'd Aesthetically lovely Massive framebuffer		Not full implementation of GP102 Cooler holds potential back

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

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Wish AMD would hurry up with Vega! This is a beast of a graphics card though, I wish I had a 4k screen so I could justify buying one of these!

Currently my 290 is still holding up well at 1080p on a TV and 1440p on my monitor, need some more demanding games or a higher resolution screen I think.

LOL,this it is faster than a Titan X and draws the same power.

“A Titan in all but name”….and price. Shows what a con the Titan X is.

Doom:
“Even the Radeon Fury X manages well in excess of 100 frames per second at the 4K test”

60fps.

I like the removal of the DVI connector, it gives the potential to go “single slot” if watercooling.