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Sometimes companies confirm product launches or new initiatives through press releases, YouTube videos, or Twitter accounts. Every now and and so, they confirm them via LinkedIn task postings — and that'south what Nvidia has washed with its plans for a GTX 1080 Ti, also equally a new "Club GeForce Elite." The position is for a senior marketing managing director, although those of you hoping for LinkedIn posts that accidentally reveal product specs and toll points are going to exist disappointed. That said, at that place are some interesting tidbits here.

According to the job posting, the individual in question volition be responsible for working on GeForce Experience, Nvidia's game tweak utility and application portal for Nvidia-specific in-game recording technology, and streaming to the Nvidia Shield. The job posting implies that Nvidia is planning to create a "Club GeForce Elite" plan. It costs $x per calendar month, and allows gamers to play a rotating bundle of free games (upward to 4x per quarter), awards a free GeForce PC in the cloud subscription (presumably this covers Nvidia'due south existing streaming game service), and grants "Exclusive skins, in-game items, and GeForce Gear."

There's also talk of application first identify in line for the GTX 1080 Ti to existing 980 Ti owners, or giving them an upgrade "step up" offer (such an offer would presumably function every bit a discount on 1080 Ti purchases, though other benefits could be part of the plan as well).

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Nvidia has defenseless some flak for requiring that users register with an email for the latest version of GeForce Experience, and a reddit mail on November six claimed that the visitor was spying on its users and collecting vastly more information for diverse nefarious purposes. I'm no fan of the registration requirement, but subsequent investigation by GamersNexus found no evidence of anything untoward, or anything that would be considered spying. Thus far, GeForce Experience 3.0 appears to be a good denizen, as far as how customer data is treated.

Equally for the GTX 1080 Ti, it's no surprise that Nvidia would have long-term plans for such a card. AMD is going to release Vega in Q1 or Q2 2017 and Nvidia volition likely wait until it has an idea what Vega performance will wait like earlier putting its next piece on the lath. All of that further assumes that Vega isn't delayed to the point that it really ends up facing Nvidia's next-generation of video cards (nosotros don't expect this to be the case, to be clear).

Either manner, Nvidia has the enjoyable option to cull its competitive ground — responding with a college-finish 1080 Ti if AMD's Vega is particularly competitive, and a lower-end carte if not. "Lower-end" in this instance is obviously a highly relative term.