Why the fuck are there rumors about a possible GTX 1070 Ti? Why in the world would Nvidia make a card in between the 1070 and 1080? I mean, the gap between those two isn't THAT significant.
To kill off V56
>>62462081
They need some shiny new products to gather attention before AMD proudly unJUSTs software for Vega.
GP104 yields might not be so stellar so they've probably accumulated enough defected dies to fit in between a 1070 and 1080
>>62462468
It's 314mm^2 die on mature process.
They simply need a new product to kill any attention Vega will be gathering (AiB boards are delayed for a reason).
>>62462565
314mm2 isn't exactly small, but they're still gonna be GP104 bins, and they sure as fuck won't main fully functioning GP104's on purpose.
AMD did something similar years ago with XT/XTX(XL?)/PRO, I think it was the GCN1 generation
>>62462615
Vega10 is also that.
It has XTXL, XTX and XT variants.
And 314mm^2 is small compared to 471mm^2 for GP10W or 486mm^2 for Vega10 (and let's not talk of behemoths like Fiji and GM200).
>>62462634
>It has XTXL, XTX and XT variants.
But that's still only 2 die configurations (4096/3500ish shaders)
This is 3 die configurations.
Yup, just checked, it was Tahiti PRO/LE/XTX
1500/1800/2000 shaders from the same die 4 billion transistor die.
>>62462694
XTXL is 16gig package. XTX is 8gigs@4k ALUs, XT is [email protected].