The NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti has been tweaked and further improved by Add-in-Board (AIB) partners. However, in just over a month, it is now replaced by a faster and beefier Titan Xp. NVIDIA fans are outraged especially those who bought the $1,200 Titan X, now outgunned by two new cards.

NVIDIA launched its Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and it soon became the fastest GPU in the market. The green team continues to dominate the GPU market that AMD has been trying to penetrate for years. However, the real power of the Founders Edition is expected to be unleashed by NVIDIA's AIB partners with higher overclocking speeds aided by monstrous coolers. Palit is the latest to add its own contribution, which is already late in coming but still offers a good setup.

Palit has just recently unveiled its GTX 1080 Ti, 11GB Super JetStream. This is an overclocked version featuring a 2.5-slot card that comes with dual heat sinks and the dual-fan cooling system. Here, Palit went for a custom PCB that features an 8+8 pin PCle power configuration. Palit also used a backplate, but no pictures have been revealed of it as of yet.

Other NVIDIA partners like Inno3D and Asus opted for monster cooling systems to easily outgun the GTX 1080 Ti Founders Edition. The biggest cooler is from the Gigabyte spin-off, Aorus, in its GTX 1080 Xtreme card launched a few days ago. Aorus pushed for an additional 40 percent more shaders and almost double the memory with 11GB, Hexus reported.

It is not surprising that NVIDIA remains unchallenged in the high-end segment with the high-performing GeForce GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and GTX 1080 Ti. However, NVIDIA's dominance is threatened for the first time by the AMD Radeon RX Vega GPUs with its unique game-changing Technology. AMD will feature the High Bandwidth Cache (HBC) and the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) technologies in Vega.

Meanwhile, NVIDIA's true next-generation Volta architecture is still due on 2018. Yet, the green team did not wait for Vega to outperform the GTX 1080 Ti and decided to unseat its own fastest card in the market with a newly-released Titan Xp. With just over a month, NVIDIA released another monster card seen as a preemptive strike against AMD, Tweak Town reported.

The uncharacteristic move of NVIDIA was not well received by fans although many were impressed by the Titan Xp's specifications. Many NVIDIA users were outraged that their newly-purchased Titan X at $1,200 is now outmuscled by two fastest cards in the market, the GTX 1080 Ti and now the Titan Xp. NVIDIA is now accused of milking gamers unnecessarily by releasing high-end cards so close together.

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Tags Nvidia geforce gtx 1080 ti, NVIDIA, NVIDIA Volta, Amd rx vega