Nvidia is expected to debut its brand new 2000-series graphics cards based on the Turing archtecture in the next couple of weeks, starting with the long-rumored 2080, which we now know will come with the moniker RTX, rather than GTX. However, a new rumor has surfaced which suggests that an even more powerful graphics card could debut alongside it or in the not to distant future: an RTX 2080 Ti.
Typically Nvidia launches new graphics card generations with its top end mainstream card -- for the last few generations, that's been an X80 card -- GTX 980, 1080 etc. It then waits around a year and releases an upgraded version with more CUDA Cores, TMUs and ROPs with the Ti moniker. But WCCFTech has heard tell that it may leapfrog that typical year-long wait to release a Ti version much sooner than that.
The rumored specifications of the 2080Ti would give it almost 50 percent more CUDA cores, TMUs and ROPs than the rumpred RTX 2080 specs, though its clock speeds would be lower. With a suggested 11GB of GDDR6, its memory bandwidth would be 50 percent higher than the 2080 too, and almost double that of the GTX 1080.
Any idea of a concrete release date or final price is unknown, but it's been suggested that this card may debut in the near future too, offering a much wider-range of hardware to gamers who have been waiting for a long time to see meaningful GPU releases from Nvidia.
Regardless, it will be interesting to see what AMD's response to the new-generation is like. It isn't expected to have any new graphics cards until 2019, when a mid-range RX 580 replacement will be released. It may not have a decent Vega replacement until 2020, which gives Nvidia way too much breathing room.
Perhaps we'll see major Vega price drops to try and compete there instead.
