The upcoming GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card has been confirmed by NVIDIA in a post on LinkedIn. The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be aimed at the enthusiast market and there will be a special deal for GTX 980 Ti owners before launch.

NVIDIA Confirms GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Graphics Card - Aimed at Enthusiast PC Gamers

It's no secret that NVIDIA is launching their brand new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. The product has been much talked about in the rumor mill for several months. The confirmation from NVIDIA comes in the form of a Job Posting over at LinkedIn which not only reveals the name of the card, but also the target market along with a special deal for GTX 980 Ti owners.

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Free game codes for users who report a confirmed bug or contribute useful feature enhancement requestsFree game codes to our most active Share and GeForce Forum usersFree game codes to users who rank most negative and most positive on our sentiment tools980 Ti users get first spot in line for 1080 Ti pre-orders, or “Step Up” offer (Linkedin via PCWorld)

As you can see, GeForce GTX 980 Ti owners will get first spot in line for pre-orders of the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card. Step Up offers will also be applicable to GeForce GTX 980 Ti owners. We don't know yet if these will be offered exclusively by NVIDIA or other AIB partners would follow. EVGA has a step up program for their cards so it's to be expected that some (if not all) partners would offer similar deals.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Likely To Be The Ultimate GeForce Gaming Solution For 4K Titles

There are some specs covered in leaks but I don't want to talk about them right now. What I would like to talk about is the fact that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card will be the second GeForce solution utilizing the NVIDIA GP102 GPU. The GeForce GTX Titan X (Pascal) is the fastest GeForce graphics card out but we saw with the GTX 980 Ti that custom solutions can perform similar or even best the similar GPU based Titan offering at a lower price.

The Titan X features the high-end GP102 chip with insane amounts of horse power. NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti would feature the same chip.

With Vega aiming a Q1 2017 launch, NVIDIA could try to squeeze as much power out of the GP102 GPU and create a scenario similar to 980 Ti versus the Fury X. The GTX 980 Ti was an overall better solution for gamers as seen in plenty of reviews compared to AMD's enthusiast offering. Even with GDDR5 memory, the solution out performed and had better efficiency compared to the HBM(1) based Fury X with Fiji GPU.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Specifications: