Is the NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti graphics card, which is due to hit the market shortly, is it a graphics card designed for gaming or is it a graphics card for mining cryptocurrencies?
Telling the truth about AMD's problems, whether in the segment of processors or graphics cards, has not been easy, as there have been many attacks, due to misinformation and manipulation of some with the data. That matters little today, because I don't want to talk about AMD and its things, I want to talk about NVIDIA and in this case, because I have been mulling over the company's situation for several days. No, obviously not at an economic level, which is a shot and less at a technological level, since I consider that it is in the fields that it should be, specifically, I do not understand the need to launch the NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti on the market in three or six months view of the NVIDIA Volta arriving.
Companies are obviously not non-profit organizations, all companies want to make money or have an obligation to do so, to pay their investors and NVIDIA has many and its benefits month after month are important. The quality and finish of their products is undeniable, with very good performance and excellent consumption, as well as being supported by high-quality software. We can blame the price they put on their products, logically, but the brand is sovereign and can put the price it wants, after all, in a car simile, a BMW and a Ford take you from point A to point B, but the two are not worth the same, you are paying for quality and benefits, because with NVIDIA, the same thing happens.
IS THERE A MARKET FOR THE NVIDIA GTX 1070 TI?
Being sold, it will be sold, I am not questioning that, what I am questioning is the need and the opportunity to launch this product. Vega has not been a rival to the height, since the performance is far from the GTX 1080 Ti (only exception aside) and the consumption of the new NVIDIA graphics is a real aberration. Regarding competition, there is no reason to launch this product, what's more, I consider that NVIDIA in a correct strategy, what it should have done is to lower the price of all its graphics cards (I could admit that the GTX 1080 Ti kept the price , since its launch is very recent).
NVIDIA has played the wrong cards in my view. There are only a few months left for the NVIDIA Volta to hit the market and now launching a graphic for about $ 450 does not make the slightest sense, because its life is going to be very short. Understand this that it will be 'obsolete' in just a few months and honestly, I do not think that the 'Intel Strategy' of launching products without the slightest sense, just to flood the market, makes a logical sense, since in the end we have a very large number of products high, with inflated prices. Both with this strategy favor AMD, which with 'worse' solutions in the processor market, with the wreck is painting the face of Intel.
Honestly, the GTX 1070 Ti has no market, what's more, it is just a marketing strategy and quite funny in my opinion. The difference between the GTX 1080 and the GTX 1080 Ti is approximately 30% in performance, therefore it makes sense, but a graph that is 5% above the GTX 1070 and 5% below the GTX 1080, What's the point The logical thing would be to lower the price of products in the market, not this movement, unless ...
IS THE NVIDIA GTX 1070 TI A MINING CARD CONVERTED TO A GAMING CARD?
White and bottled, milk. The GTX 1070 are in high demand in the mining of Zcash and Ethereum, because it mines both cryptocurrencies with a very good performance and the consumption of this graphics card is very moderate. Discreetly and quietly, the GTX 1070s are sold in large quantities for mining, something that leaves the stock of the GTX 1060 quiet, for users looking to assemble a gaming equipment. NVIDIA has run into the perfect storm with these two models and honestly, as I believe that in NVIDIA they are not stupid, the idea has been to launch the NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti, as graphics cards dressed for gaming, but that are actually graphics for the mined.
The information has been leaked that the GDDR5 memories of this graphics card work at 9Gbps, therefore, we could be facing Samsung memories, not Hynix. What does this mean? The Hynix memories to make OC are crap, they hardly support OC and consumption shoots up, while the Samsung ones give a bit more margin and consumption is more moderate, therefore, the working frequency of the memories could be improved, for mining Zcash. Yes, it looks like they are wolves in sheep's clothing.
CONCLUSION
For the gaming sector, this NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti graphics card does not make the slightest sense, with the Volta just around the corner, it would be more logical to lower the price of all the products on the market by about 10-20%, yes that it would leave the Vega in a dire position. Apparently what we have before us is a graphics card with a gamer design, but with a heart for mining, at least, is what we understand from NVIDIA.
I see all the sense in this graph on the part of Nvidia, to clean up the stock of chips it has of the 1080 that it cannot sell and finish off the few options that Amd had with the rx vega 56. On the other hand, for mining it is an interesting option only if bought out of necessity given the imminent release of Volta in Q1 2018, given that as the market is right now the investment would not be recovered in at least 1 year.
This makes more sense, and you have to see the option that nvidia delay the output of volta until the end of 2018, so far it has no competition and the only half option from AMD is the VEGA 56.
I don't think AMD will release graphics cards for quite some time, so they might delay Volta's release. Although, knowing Nvidia, I don't think they'll delay it for too long and will go their own way, even if they're only competing against themselves.
If NVIDIA learns from Intel's mistakes, it wouldn't relax. In the world of technology, even if you're a god, if you fall asleep for a year or two, you might be overtaken. NVIDIA needs to pull out all the stops and continue releasing new architectures for artificial intelligence and autonomous cars, etc. Relax now because AMD hasn't delivered... hahaha, in my opinion, it would be very dangerous for NVIDIA...
Come on, you know more by yourself than the entire Nvidea team made up of hundreds of analysts and specialists in the market.