NVIDIA To Bring Big Guns On GDC Event; May Unveil The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Or Newest 2000 Series

NVIDIA just announced its invitation for its "GeForce GTX Gaming Celebration" event as part of the Game Developers Conference (GDC) happening on Feb. 28. It will be a gaming-focused event where NVIDIA will host games and tournaments as well as release new software and hardware. Like GDC 2015, AMD's not-to-be-missed event may finally unveil NVIDIA's flagship card, the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, or announce NVIDIA's newest GeForce 2000 Series.

NVIDIA's invitation via Eventbrite spoke of awesome PC gaming, tournaments and free food and drinks. An interesting end adds "and a few more amazing surprises," which is one way of teasing the coming of a powerful software and hardware or NVIDIA's big guns. This could be similar to what happened in GDC 2015 where NVIDIA strolled into Epic's keynote speech, not a separate event, to casually drop a big surprise, its then flagship the GeForce Titan X. Since then, the GPU maker has been expected to make big reveals in the most innocuous places.

For GDC 2017, NVIDIA may follow the tradition it practiced since the Kepler architecture, which is to release its high-end cards first before the mainstream ones, The Tech Report has learned. Gamers may get to see the highly-anticipated GeForce GTX 1080 Ti alongside the AMD Vega 10 in its own GDC Event, the Capsaicin and Cream. NVIDIA and AMD have been engaged in an intense rivalry and it is more likely that one will try to steal the limelight from the other. Although some observers say that if AMD holds back the launching of its flagship AMD Vega, then there is no reason that NVIDIA might bring its flagship cards as well.

Nonetheless, expectations are high for the unveiling of NVIDIA's biggest and fastest card, which is reported to be based on a cut-down version of the GP102 chip used in the GeForce GTX Titan X. NVIDIA has not yet revealed its specifications other than the card being based on the 16nm process node. The GPU maker has also not revealed anything more about its upcoming GDC event.

Gaming experts believe that NVIDIA may also showcase its latest software as it did in previous GDCs. In 2016, it unveiled its new software technologies that were based on its GameWorks platforms like the HFTS Shadows and VXAO. These technologies were incorporated into A-lister games like "Tom Clancy's: The Division," "Rise of the Tomb Raider," and the latest "Watch Dogs 2" according to Wccftech.

In NVIDIA's GDC event 2017, there might also be the chance that the company may give more details on the rumored Pascal refresh GPUs. The GeForce 2000 series will be the latest GPUS of NVIDIA and it may make a surprise appearance in the said event. It has been almost a year now since the last cards were unveiled and gamers are expecting NVIDIA to provide new details about its newest series. All these will be known come Feb. 28.