GTX 1080Ti rumored to be renamed 2080Ti

[moonbogg]

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-pascal-volta-gpu-leaked-2017-2018/

What do you think about this? Garbage rumor? 1080Ti to be skipped and renamed to 2080ti, faster clocks and faster at stock than TitanX while significantly cheaper. Rumor sais whole Pascal line to be refreshed. Maybe to combat Vega and stay ahead of the AMD flagship with the 2080ti at a good price might be necessary, but renaming everything to the 2000 series doesn't make sense. They could simply refresh them all with a TI at the end and release the 1080Ti as the 1080Ti.
Anyway, I like the idea of a full blown GP102 at $650 or something. I'd probably grab one if that was the case and replace my dank SLI solution for the better single card.
One reason for the renaming to the 2000 series is Nvidia could then justify to it's customer the severe reduction in TitanX performance price since its now being called a new and better generation of cards. Know what I mean? If they call it any name of this generation and make it faster at stock with more cuda cores or whatever than TitanX and sell for half the price, that's a punch in the *expletive* to TitanX buyers. If they rename it to a new generation, then its only a slap in the eye ball.

AWW CRAP! That article is 2 months old. Oh for crying out loud. Anyway what you think?

 

[ultima_trev]

Refreshing the 1000 series into the 2000 series is a possibility, like how 600 series was refreshed into 700 series after the first Titan launched. 2080 Ti could be the full GP102 while the Titan X Black could be a GP100 chip with all the compute goodness. Then a slightly cut down GP102 becomes the 2080, the full GP104 becomes the 2070 with higher clocks and perhaps a cut down GP104 as 2060 but with GDDR5X.

 

[Head1985]

I think there will be no 1080Ti at all.
Nv will refresh pascal same way they refresh kepler.

GTX1080 with faster GDDR5x an clock renamed to GTX1170(30-35% faster than current gtx1070)
GTX1180 will be cutdown GP102(rumored GTX1080TI).30% gap between new GTX1170 and GTX1180(GTX1180 30% faster than current GTX1080)
TITANX will remain fastest card.
GTX1180TI only released if AMD beat TITANX(1180TI will be Full GP102)

 

[R0H1T]

I think there will be no 1080Ti at all.
Nv will refresh pascal same way they refresh kepler.

GTX1080 with faster GDDR5x an clock renamed to GTX1170(30-35% faster than current gtx1070)
GTX1180 will be cutdown GP102(rumored GTX1080TI).30% gap between new GTX1170 and GTX1180(GTX1180 30% faster than current GTX1080)
TITANX will remain fastest card.
GTX1180TI only released if AMD beat TITANX(1180TI will be Full GP102)

So, they'll milk this gen till the cows come home? Sounds like a bad time to buy a(ny) GPU, big Vega or possibly Volta is the only thing that'll drive prices down a notch or two!

 

[Qwertilot]

Er no. That scenario is the one that will be a big gain for consumers - the 1080 would drop to current 1070ish prices, 1070 to current 1060 etc. Then the bigger chips at the top. Basically around +30%/market tier, which is what NV do year on year.

The alternative is that they'll put the 1080ti in above the current 1080 and keep prices there the same until Volta hits. Fairly easy to work out which is better

Logically it'll depend on how far Volta is from production - if they do a refresh then 'domestic' Volta will be Spring 2018, if its due in Autumn or something they may well not bother.

 

[tviceman]

I think a refresh is very likely. Refreshes are more effective than simply dropping prices because it's considered a new product, often has a small performance boost, and is almost always priced cheaper than the original MSRP of the product its replacing.

In the case of Pascal, the 1080 can be refreshed with faster vram and slightly higher clocks just like the 680 -> 770. The 1070 obviously has plenty of wiggle room for refresh improvements, and the 1060 could possibly benefit from faster vram and clocks as well.

Titan X Pascal isn't even the full version of GP102, so refreshing that to use the full chip is an easy solution as either a new Titan or 2080 TI and you can bet there will be a cut down version, maybe 1 less SMP than the current Titan X to be the GTX 2080.

 

[Sweepr]

Now that we know what to expect from Vega I'm sure NVIDIA has no reason to hurry. Plenty of time to refresh GP104 and introduce new GP102 cards in 2017. I expect a 1080 Ti not far from Titan X (Pascal) performance wise and a brand new Titan Black packing the full chip at 250-300W TDP. I would love to see Volta next year, but realistically I think it's an early 2018 product.

 

[xpea]

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-confirmed/

Relative to the initial article, how garbage is this site

PS: I only post a link to show how these guys say something and its opposite few weeks apart. Shameless...