If the launch of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1070 Ti comes as a surprise to you, you?ve clearly been reading different news websites than I have been. This is one of those odd launches where reviewers didn't even know about the product until it leaked, and didn't hear about samples? well, at all. The day following the unveil, a card simply showed up. No shipping memo, not even a peep out of NVIDIA. It felt like we received one of the most mysterious GPUs ever.

But the GTX 1070 Ti isn't that mysterious, because it's been leaked to the point where it already feels like it's been available. As the name suggests, this card slots in between the GTX 1070 and 1080, and it has a price tag to complement that placement: $449.

The timing of this release is also a little interesting, as I?ve been holding off on rebenchmarking our fleet of cards until the Fall Creators Update of Windows 10 released. Furthermore, one of the games just added to the suite, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, received optimizations in new drivers earlier this week from both AMD and NVIDIA, so despite being behind, it's nice to have really fresh numbers to share.