According to a report published by Nordic Hardware, Nvidia will launch its long awaited GeForce GTX 1080 Ti in the last week of March. The dates of 20-23rd March are specifically mentioned. The tech site received the launch timing tip via Taiwanese graphics card manufacturer sources. Sources attributed with supplying this information didn't supply any new specifications data.

Taiwanese graphics card makers are now beginning to churn out their partner designs, so it is thought that at launch, or very shortly after launch, there will be third party cooler design GTX 1080 Ti models available alongside Nvidia's reference design.

Nordic Hardware compiled a comparison table outlining the current expectations for GTX 1080 Ti specs alongside cards that have already shipped. I've reproduced that below:

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Nvidia Titanium X GeForce GTX 1080 GeForce GTX Titanium X Architecture Pascal Pascal Pascal Maxwell GPU GP102 GP102 GP104-400 GM200 Manufacturing tech 16nm Finfet 16nm Finfet 16nm Finfet 28nm Cuda cores 3328 pcs (?) 3584 st 2560 st 3072 st Base frequency 1503MHz 1417MHz 1607MHz 1000MHz Frequency Boost 1623MHz 1531MHz 1733MHz 1075MHz Performance 10.8 TFLOPS 11 TFLOPS 8.87 TFLOPS 6.6 TFLOPS Memory 10GB? 12GB GDDR5X 8GB GDDR5X 12GB of GDDR5 Memory Frequency 10,000MHz 10,000MHz 10,000MHz 7,000MHz Memory Bus 384 bit 384 bit 256 bit 384 bit Memory Bandwidth 480GB / s 480GB / s 320GB / s 336.5GB / s TDP 250W 250W 180W 250 W

Next week, on the same day of the AMD 'Capsaicin and Cream' event coinciding with the GDC 2017, Nvidia has arranged the GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration. "You won't want to miss this," teases Nvidia, of its San Francisco event. Hopefully there will be at least a teasing glimpse of the GTX 1080 Ti and/or some performance and hardware specs released before the launch. Will it be enough to diminish any newfound AMD Vega awe among hardware enthusiasts?