NVIDIA Announces New GeForce 1080 GTX and GeForce 1070 GTX

NVIDIA officially announced the two new GeForce 1080 GTX and GeForce 1070 GTX at the Dreamhack festival in Austin, Texas. Confirmed the use of the GPU Pascal family, GDDR5X memory combined with the GeForce 1080 GTX model and GDDR5 memory for the GeForce 1070 GTX.

The GeForce 1080 GTX card will be marketed from May 27, at a suggested retail price equal to $ 599, plus tax; NVIDIA will also propose a so-called Founders Edition to $ 699 in price. The card has 8 Gbytes of GDDR5 memory and is declared to be capable of an output of 9 TFLOPs processing. The GPU of the Pascal family integrates 2,560 stream processors, with a boost clock frequency of 1733 MHz.

For the GeForce 1070 GTX the market debut is postponed to June 10; in this case there is a power declared maximum processing of 6.5 TFLOPs with 8 Gbytes of GDDR5 video memory. The suggested retail price for this card is equal to US $ 379, again excluding tax; also you will be offered a Founders Edition to 449 List dollars.

Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO, said extremely high levels of performance for GeForce 1080 GTX card, capable of touching performance even equal to twice that of the GeForce GTX Titan X but with a consumption only slightly higher than the GeForce card GTX 980. these are extreme cases, but it is not difficult to expect average increases of good application to verify on the occasion of our performance analysis. Performance better than Titan X also for the GeForce 1070 GTX card, despite the mid-range market positioning.

It now remains to wait a few weeks before you can purchase the GeForce 1080 GTX; it is conceivable that the first reviews of this card will be made available in the days before the start of sales planned for May 27.