NVIDIA unveils world’s fastest gaming GPU, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti

USA: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco unveiled GeForce GTX 1080 Ti — the fastest gaming GPU ever.

“It’s time for something new, something that’s 35 percent faster than a GTX 1080, something that’s faster than Titan X  Let’s call it the ultimate GeForce,” said Jen-Hsun.

The GTX 1080 Ti is even faster than the NVIDIA TITAN X Pascal, its $1,200 big brother that was designed for deep learning and artificial intelligence.

Packed with extreme gaming horsepower, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti delivers up to 35 percent more performance of the GTX 1080 and comes with 11GB of next-generation GDDR5X memory, running at a staggering 11Gbps, for the ultimate in memory bandwidth and gaming prowess.

NVIDIA designed the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to handle the graphical demands of 4K gaming and 5K gaming, and deliver unrivaled VR experiences. It includes support for advanced graphics technologies, such as 4K, VR, NVIDIA G-SYNC HDR and NVIDIA GameWorks for interactive, cinematic experiences accompanied by incredibly smooth gameplay.

GTX 1080 Ti graphics cards, including the NVIDIA Founders Edition, will be available across 238 countries and territories from the NVIDIA GeForce partners beginning March 10, and starting at $699. Pre-orders on nvidia.com will go live on March 2.