The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is a much-awaited release, especially with competitors like the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Vega 10 ready to take on the challenge when it comes to quality graphics.

The NVIDIA GTX 1080i will be packing 12 billion transistors, which is a vast improvement compared to the 7.2-billion of the GTX 1080.

According to PC GamesN, the card will also have 4.8 GB of random access memory (RAM) and a GDDRX5-type RAM that is of a higher bandwidth variant compared to the regular GDDR.

These improvements will more or less put the price range of the graphics card to somewhere between $630 and $1,200.

However, while there are no release dates officially confirmed by NVIDIA, fans are looking at tech conferences for potential release calendars.

University Herald speculates that the PAX East Indie Showcase in Boston on March 10 to 12 may be a good release date for the graphics card. After all, the event will be showcasing new releases for the PC and other consoles.

Another important event would be the March 3 Game Developers' Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, which is near NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters.

The GDC has been host to previous NVIDIA releases, including the GTX 680 which was revealed in 2012.

Fans can remember that the official confirmation from NVIDIA on the upcoming GTX 1080 Ti's existence came from quite the unusual source. As pointed out by PCGamesN.com, a job listing for a marketing position relating to Club GeForce on LinkedIn had some details on the pre-orders of the new card.

The GTX 1080i will reportedly be the final piece of its Pascal cards, as it will be the last offering from the line before the next-generation Volta comes out.

There is speculation that the Volta could appear at the 2018 NVIDIA Graphics Technology Conference. If this turns out to be true, then there is a high chance that the GTX graphics chip, the GTX 1080 Ti, would be released in 2017. 

Players and fans are having a hard time confirming the existence of the GTX 1080 Ti because NVIDIA does not normally comment on unreleased products.