Satisfying the gamer with a decent budget. It's been quiet on the premium GPU front since AMD finally launched the Radeon RX Vega 56 and 64 GPUs in August. Built to offer really good gaming experiences at the enthusiast-friendly 1440p resolution, their performance and pricing gave the widely available Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 GPUs something to think about.

Yet with very few partner Vega cards available and enthusiasts therefore limited to the noisy reference card, rival Nvidia hasn't been moved to do much of anything of late, ostensibly because its slew of Pascal-powered cards have continued to sell well.

Nvidia understands that RX Vega 56 poses a unique problem insofar as its performance sits between the very best, overclocked GeForce GTX 1070 GPUs and entry-level GTX 1080s, with such opportunity available due to the way in which Nvidia has limited the horsepower of the lower card. Typically, a partner-built GTX 1080 is about 25 per cent faster than the same model in GTX 1070 form, due to more shaders and faster memory, and this is the gap that Nvidia wants to fill.

Heck, getting a GPU in this place will give partners something to shout about in the premium space - GTX 1070/80 are well over a year old now. This GPU Pollyfila is the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, announced last week. As usual, the easiest method of digesting what's new is to look at the specification table, so here we go.