NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti release date news: expected to be cheaper than Titan X; to be unveiled at PAX 2017?

NVIDIA graced the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with no news about their upcoming graphics card. Fans got disappointed upon learning that the company will not reveal details of the anticipated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti at the event, leading more rumors on its release date.

Rival company AMD wowed the crowd at the CES 2017 when they unveiled the Vega graphics processor, leaving NVIDIA behind the trend. However, Ubergizmo reported that the company intentionally skipped any graphics processing unit (GPU)-related announcements at the event, suggesting that the anticipated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti may be launched in March.

It was during the CES 2017 when the company announced that GeForce Now, the NVIDIA Spot and the NVIDIA Shield Pro. Enthusiasts believe that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will have its own spotlight at a different event.

The slight delay of the GPU's release date has got some fans speculating that it will be finally unveiled at the PAX 2017, which is set on March 10 in Boston. Fudzilla wrote that the GPU has the same 16nm GP102 Pascal features like the Titan X. It is also possible to have compute unified device architecture (CUDA) cores between 2560 and 3584.

Tech analysts believe that NVIDA's PAX announcement may be the perfect time to introduce the anticipated GPU since the event is organized especially for gamers. Sources claim that the company's Authorized Board Partners staff disclosed that the graphics card will be out on shelves from day one of its unveiling.

Other expected features include a 10 GB of decreased double-data rate type five synchronous graphics video random-access memory (GDDR5X VRAM) alongside a memory bandwidth of 400 GB/s and a 320-bit memory bus width. The most-talked-about rumor, however, is the price of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as it is seen at a $599 price tag — tremendously cheaper than the price of Titan X Pascal at $1,299.

NVIDIA has yet to confirm the release date and specs so everything has to be taken with a grain of salt.