Nvidia announces GTX 1080 Ti offering 11GB of GDDR5X memory

As we close out the second day of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Nvidia has revealed that a new high-end graphics card will arrive on the market next month.

The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will the be the firm's fastest gaming GPU to date based on the Pascal architecture. The GTX 1080 Ti comes with 11GB of GDDR5X memory and offers impressive specifications that delivers "up to 35 percent more performance of the GTX 1080".

Some of the finer details of the card lie below:

• Massive Features for Massive Performance: The GTX 1080 Ti includes 3,584 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and a massive 11GB frame buffer running at an unheard of 11Gbps. It delivers up to 35 percent faster performance than the GeForce GTX 1080 and up to 78 percent faster performance than the GTX 1070.(1) 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.
• Next-Gen Memory Architecture: GTX 1080 Ti is the world's first GPU to feature Micron's next-gen G5X memory. 11GB of G5X memory running a blazing 11Gbps quad data rate delivers the most effective memory bandwidth of any modern gaming GPU. And it still has plenty of headroom for overclocking.
• Advanced FinFET Process: The GTX 1080 Ti is manufactured on the industry's cutting-edge FinFET process. Its 12 billion transistors deliver a dramatic increase in performance and efficiency over previous-generation products.
• Meticulous Craftsmanship: The GTX 1080 Ti runs as cool as it looks due to superior heat dissipation from a new high-airflow thermal solution with vapor chamber cooling, 2x the airflow area and a power architecture featuring a seven-phase power design with 14 high-efficiency dualFETs.
• Support for Advanced Graphics Technologies: 4K, VR, NVIDIA G-SYNC™ HDR and NVIDIA GameWorks™ offer interactive, cinematic experiences accompanied by incredibly smooth gameplay.

The new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be available from various partners with the Founders Edition being made available for pre-order starting on March 2 for a price of $699. The card will make its retail debut on March 10.

Source: Nvidia | GTX 1080 Ti image via Nvidia (Twitter)