NVidia GTX 1070 Ti Official Specs & Release Date

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NVidia GTX 1070 Ti Official Specs & Release Date

By Steve Burke Published October 26, 2017 at 9:53 am

Hardware

NVidia’s much-rumored GTX 1070 Ti will launch on November 2, 2017, with initial information disseminated today. The 1070 Ti uses a GP104-300 GPU, slotted between the GP104-400 and GP104-200 of the 1080 and 1070 (respectively), and therefore uses the same silicon as we’ve seen before. This is likely the final Pascal launch before leading into Volta, and is seemingly the response to AMD’s Vega 56 challenger of the GTX 1070 non-Ti.

The 1070 Ti is slightly cut-down from the 1080, the former of which runs 19 SMs for 2432 CUDA cores (at 128 shaders per SM), with the latter running 20 SMs. The result is what will likely amount to clock differences, primarily, as the 1070 Ti operates 1607/1683MHz for its clock speeds, and AIB partners are not permitted to offer pre-overclocked versions. For all intents and purposes, outside of the usual cooling, VRM, and silicon quality differences (random, at best), all AIB partner cards will perform identically in out-of-box states. Silicon quality will amount to the biggest differences, with cooler quality – anything with an exceptionally bad cooler, primarily – differentiating the rest.

As we understand it now, users will be able to manually overclock the 1070 Ti with software. See the specs below:

GTX 1070 Ti Specs vs. 1080, 1070

NVIDIA Pascal Specs Comparison
	Tesla P100	GTX 1080 Ti	GTX 1080	GTX 1070 Ti	GTX 1070
GPU	GP100 Cut-Down Pascal	GP102 Pascal	GP104-400 Pascal	GP104-300 Pascal	GP104-200 Pascal
Transistor Count	15.3B	12B	7.2B	7.2B	7.2B
Fab Process	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET	16nm FinFET
CUDA Cores	3584	3584	2560	2432	1920
GPCs	6	6	4	4	3
SMs	56	28	20	19	15
TPCs	28 TPCs		20 TPCs	19 TPCs	15
TMUs	224	224	160	152	120
ROPs	96 (?)	88	64	64	64
Core Clock	1328MHz	-	1607MHz	1607MHz	1506MHz
Boost Clock	1480MHz	1600MHz	1733MHz	1683MHz	1683MHz
FP32 TFLOPs	10.6TFLOPs	~11.4TFLOPs	9TFLOPs		6.5TFLOPs
Memory Type	HBM2	GDDR5X	GDDR5X	GDDR5	GDDR5
Memory Capacity	16GB	11GB	8GB	8GB	8GB
Memory Clock	?	11Gbps	10Gbps GDDR5X	8Gbps	8Gbps
Memory Interface	4096-bit	352-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Memory Bandwidth	?	~484GBs	320.32GB/s	256GB/s	256GB/s
Total Power Budget ("TDP")	300W	250W	180W	180W	150W
Power Connectors	?	1x 8-pin 1x 6-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin	1x 8-pin
Release Date	4Q16-1Q17	TBD	5/27/2016	11/2/2017	6/10/2016
Release Price	-	$700	Reference: $700 MSRP: $600 Now: $500	Reference: $450	Reference: $450 MSRP: $380

It seems that the 1070 Ti will effectively kill the GTX 1080, with its MSRP of $450, and will directly challenge the AMD RX Vega 56 card that we previously noted as a strong alternative to the 1070. Initial Newegg listings for the 1070 Ti (these are for pre-orders – as always, don’t do that; wait for the reviews before buying) have the card listed at ~$470 for the cheapest options, with GTX 1080 options listed at $520. We’re not counting blower 1080s, as they aren’t very good, but those start at $510.

If the cards are nearly the same in performance, an overclock by the user should make that up. We’ll see. It seems as if the primary factor in overclocking will be power limit, where some boards and VBIOS configurations will permit higher current/power to the card. That’d be worth noting, and is something we’ll look at in reviews.

This is a move by nVidia to combat the Vega 56 card. We’d wager that a 1070 Ti wouldn’t exist without Vega 56, as nVidia would rest easily with its 1070 and 1080 gapped by a $100 bill. Given V56 availability and pricing, same-cost 1070 Ti cards might take some of the wind out of those sails – but we’ll see if V56 cards see price drops, or if AMD instantiates some sort of bundle deal to try and keep eyes on Vega.

We’ll have a review on this for launch.

- Steve Burke

Last modified on October 26, 2017 at 9:53 am

Steve Burke

Steve started GamersNexus back when it was just a cool name, and now it's grown into an expansive website with an overwhelming amount of features. He recalls his first difficult decision with GN's direction: "I didn't know whether or not I wanted 'Gamers' to have a possessive apostrophe -- I mean, grammatically it should, but I didn't like it in the name. It was ugly. I also had people who were typing apostrophes into the address bar - sigh. It made sense to just leave it as 'Gamers.'"

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