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Are there any rumours as to when the next Nvidia GPUs will be released?

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I don't really read many hardware tech sites so don't often manage to keep up to date with rumours etc. I was wondering if there was any information out for when Nvidia will be releasing new GPUs?

It seems a bit silly to upgrade at this point since the new GPUs will be released at some point and I imagine that the speed increase will be quite good compared to what I have at the moment in terms of graphics cards.

The Nvidia 980Ti looks cool at the moment but obviously if I can wait for a few months until Nvidia release a new generation of GPUs then I can get an even better GPU for the same price.
 
Cromulent said:
OK. Not too bad then. Especially as I have to wait for new Intel CPUs anyway. Plus it'll give me time to save up some more money to get an even better system.
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It would be a longer while for Intel to release the next CPU gen, considering they only launched Skylake/Z170 platform not that long ago.

Intel's pass few gen of CPU has been pretty boring, as there's like 0-5% performance increase per gen. Honestly hope AMD can release something decent that give Intel some challenge, so it would at least force them to give us better CPUs for the money we are paying.

It's ridiculous that with each new gen Intel keep pushing the price higher and higher, but the performance increase is becoming lesser and lesser; £200 for i5 and £300 for i7...seriously what the hell Intel!?
 
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It would be a longer while for Intel to release the next CPU gen, considering they only launched Skylake/Z170 platform not that long ago.

Intel's pass few gen of CPU has been pretty boring, as there's like 0-5% performance increase per gen. Honestly hope AMD can release something decent that give Intel some challenge, so it would at least force them to give us better CPUs for the money we are paying.

It's ridiculous that with each new gen Intel keep pushing the price higher and higher, but the performance increase is becoming lesser and lesser; £200 for i5 and £300 for i7...seriously what the hell Intel!?
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Inflation, lack of competition and extremely expensive development of the new 14nm process upon which Skylake and future Intel CPU's are built.

It's not surprising that they increase in price, especially considering how long a Intel CPU lasts you these days.

For example, my previous CPU, a i7 920, lasted me for 7 years. That's incredibly good value for money, considering the use I got out of it (It's still running as my media/file/backup server!).
 
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It would be a longer while for Intel to release the next CPU gen, considering they only launched Skylake/Z170 platform not that long ago.
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Untrue.

Intel are due to release Broadwell-E in Q1 2016 and the rumours say that the top end CPU will be a 10 core / 20 thread CPU which will be a significant upgrade to my Sandybridge-E which is 6 core / 12 thread (i7 3930k).

I do a lot of stuff that requires a lot of threads so upgrading will be a huge boost to my productivity.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
It's ridiculous that with each new gen Intel keep pushing the price higher and higher, but the performance increase is becoming lesser and lesser; £200 for i5 and £300 for i7...seriously what the hell Intel!?
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As well as market reasons(supply/demand/lack of competition) I think it's also just harder now (more expensive) for R & D to improve performance than it was 6+ years ago. Moore's law no longer applies I don't think. So the research and development costs are still massive for relatively small gains in performance. Clock speeds have hardly improved for years.
 
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Cromulent said:
Untrue.

Intel are due to release Broadwell-E in Q1 2016 and the rumours say that the top end CPU will be a 10 core / 20 thread CPU which will be a significant upgrade to my Sandybridge-E which is 6 core / 12 thread (i7 3930k).

I do a lot of stuff that requires a lot of threads so upgrading will be a huge boost to my productivity.
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I was talking in the context of "mainstream" CPU market for gaming.

The extra money on the X99 type "enthusiast platform" is diminishing returns for gaming performance (main no difference especially when using one or even two GPUs), and the money would be better spent on gaphic cards(s) instead, especially with the current trend people people starting to move on from 1920 res onto 2560 res 144Hz and 4K etc.

The X99 platform etc is only great for those that need the extra power for other things besides gamings, such as rendering, video encoding etc.
 
Interesting thread, i'm on 2500k and a Z77 is there much point upgrading? I play games at 1080p currently, though will probably upgrade to 1440p this year. My '4 years old in April' system doesn't seem to be struggling, although I was thinking about doing a whole system upgrade this year.

Monitor - RAM - CPU - MOBO - GPU.
 
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Is it worthwhile upgrading to X99 board and 5820k CPU?
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If mainly gaming, no not really. Sidegrade at best for games as its what I recently done. Had a 4790k at 4.7ghz. But for encoding, rendering etc the 5820k is much faster than the 4790k.
 
Darujhistan said:
Interesting thread, i'm on 2500k and a Z77 is there much point upgrading? I play games at 1080p currently, though will probably upgrade to 1440p this year. My '4 years old in April' system doesn't seem to be struggling, although I was thinking about doing a whole system upgrade this year.

Monitor - RAM - CPU - MOBO - GPU.
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The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading my system is because it feels like it is on its last legs.

One hard drive has failed. The system randomly locks up at times and it is really noisy. I'm sure I could fix the problems with the system with a bit of work and some cash but if I upgraded to a whole new system I could use my current system as a spare for running Linux virtual machines or something.

I'm definitely looking to upgrade my graphics cards though although I doubt I'll go Crossfire or SLI this time around. It is just more things that could possibly go wrong.

For the record here are my current system specs:

Intel i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz
2x AMD 7950 in Crossfire
1x 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1x 2TB Seagate HDD
16GB DDR3 1666Mhz RAM
Asus Sabertooth X79 Motherboard
Blu-ray reader / DVD writer
 
AMD hasn't even released the FuryX2 yet so expect the new cards from them in Summer or later but Nvidia may be readying Pascal to counter the Fury X2 so maybe they will release something in the 1st Quarter.

With the FuryX2 I would hope AMD at least use 8GB HBM for future proofing but that's wishful thinking..

PS: This is a GPU thread so what's with all the cpu discussion?
 
Cromulent said:
The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading my system is because it feels like it is on its last legs.

One hard drive has failed. The system randomly locks up at times and it is really noisy. I'm sure I could fix the problems with the system with a bit of work and some cash but if I upgraded to a whole new system I could use my current system as a spare for running Linux virtual machines or something.

I'm definitely looking to upgrade my graphics cards though although I doubt I'll go Crossfire or SLI this time around. It is just more things that could possibly go wrong.

For the record here are my current system specs:

Intel i7 3930k running at 4.4Ghz
2x AMD 7950 in Crossfire
1x 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1x 2TB Seagate HDD
16GB DDR3 1666Mhz RAM
Asus Sabertooth X79 Motherboard
Blu-ray reader / DVD writer
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Well your system is clearly superior to mine but mine doesn't feel like is struggling or failing really - probably in my case it's a bit more upgrade itch than need.

I think i'll just get a new monitor maybe and leave it at that this year, i've also no need for a 2nd system like you have.

I wouldn't touch SLI/Crossfire with a barge pole for the reason you stated.

I'd suggest seeing what you can do you with a bit of work and a few quid in the short term though and then build from scratch for later.
 
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I don't really read many hardware tech sites so don't often manage to keep up to date with rumours etc. I was wondering if there was any information out for when Nvidia will be releasing new GPUs?
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Next Tuesday.

It seems a bit silly to upgrade at this point since the new GPUs will be released at some point...
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You can always wait. Or you can get on and have fun now.
 
Intel are NOT price gauging with skylake its a supply and demand and currency exchange issue that is causing the high prices. I have posted the following previously debunking this......


Check out the launch bulk prices (i.e. what Intel sell on to retailers OEM’s etc) for the previous ‘top end’ i7 consumer socket four core/ eight thread CPU’s over the past four years

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85193-intel-core-i7-6700k-14nm-skylake/

Launch 1ku prices

6700k $350 - August 2015
5775c $366
4790k $339
4770k $339
3770k $313
2700k $332 - October 2011


Allowing for inflation (http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ ) from 2011 to 2015 plugging the 2700k value in gives an inflation adjusted price of…………………….


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$351.20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The 6700k is a 14nm CPU so where is the premium Intel charged for the CPU new over the previous gen Broadwell (which they asked more for! - probably due to the iGPU) and over the gen before that, Haswell, where they asked for a whole $11 dollars less.

Haswell to Skylake is 22nm to 14nm with a whole new CPU design to cost for

Haswell-E to Broadwell-E is the same design shrunk from 22nm to 14nm i.e. probably cheaper to deal with then a new CPU design

Oh and if you factor in inflation for the 4770k (march 2013) to 2015 the price goes from 339 to 346
so basically adjusted for Inflation Intel's 4c/8t top end cpu pricing has remained pretty much unchanged despite spending 'billions' in the mean time to develop new designs on smaller processes.......
 
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