NVidia Challenge To AMD Vega, GTX 1080 Ti To Be Better And Faster

The CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2017 is about to begin in Las Vegas. Celebrating it's 50 anniversary this year, the trade show will go on from January 5-8 and see hordes of products that seem to have been toppled out of science-fiction movies of the past. But we have our eyes on the graphics cards war of the year.

The Mobipicker reports that Nvidia is just lying in wait to see AMD unveil its much-awaited Vega architecture, and then, may adjust the core clocks of GTX 1080 Ti to match or excel the performance, even if it means that they may have to price up their GPUs a bit.

Titan X Pascal already overclocks very well. So, Nvidia should have no problem in the boosting the performance of their default clocks in the narrow timeframe it will have.

However, Pascal does have its drawbacks. Due to heat build-up, it throttles badly when it is overclocked, even with the water-cooled GTX 1080version.

Nvidia high-end graphics cards are not cheap either. A  GeForce GTX 1080 AMP Extreme costs $1,200 while an EVGA GeForce GTX TITAN X costs $2,899.

Yet, since AMD Vega is only expected to match up to the performance of GTX 1070 which is at a lower price point, Nvidia should have no problem in bettering it. The higher-end version of AMD Vega, which is named as RX490, is not expected to perform as well as 1080 and 1080Ti either, especially while being able to keep the prices down for their latest product.

The HNGN reports that the GTC 1080 Ti specifications have been leaked. See how it compares up with the 1080 specifications:

RX 490 or AMD Vega 10 specifications have been leaked too. This HBM2 powered high-end graphics card will feature the flagship 14nm GPU and second-generation High Bandwidth Memory with up to 1 terabyte of memory bandwidth. It is three times of what GTX 1080 offers right now. Check out the specifications here as posted by the WCCFtech:

NVidia is also planning to introduce the GeForce Club Elite which will initially help GTX 980 Ti owners to upgrade to the new version. The loyalty club will offer free game codes to users who are:

• most active in Share and GeForce Forum,
• report a confirmed bug or request for feature enhancements that are useful, and
• rank Most Negative or Most Positive in the 'sentiment' tools.

The new service aims to compliment the superior product line of the company to enhance gamers' experience.

It is clear that Nvidia is taking AMD Vega as a serious threat to its market share, and is all ready to tackle the situation.