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Geforce GTX1180/2080 Speculation thread

Excited to see what comes out but if the launch price really is $700 plus the miners tax I'll give up on PC gaming and save my money so I can join the console peasants when the PS5 is released in another years time!

I've only really been playing VR games this year so unless it has some exciting new features specifically for that format I'll give it a miss personally.

Surprised to see the rumours claim it will have 16gb of RAM. I didn't think that would increase over the current 8gb this generation.
 
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silvagti said:
Excited to see what comes out but if the launch price really is $700 plus the miners tax I'll give up on PC gaming and save my money so I can join the console peasants when the PS5 is released in another years time!
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Haven't Sony stated no new hardware for 3 years? If so, good luck with that wait!!
 
bru said:
Certainly not on a gamers graphics cards, maybe on the professional version though.
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I think 12GB would be a good figure for a mainstream card, this will enable the card to cope with any new games for the next couple of years.

NVidia have already made a very big hint what they think will be needed for the next couple of years with the Titan V which packs 12GB, it would have been dead easy to equip the card with 16GB simply by enabling all 4 memory stacks.
 
JediFragger said:
I'd be very surprised if we get 16GB (of expensive GDDR6), 8GB is still plenty for other than 4k. Maybe the next Ti will have it, just can't see the normal line having it yet.
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4K is what everyone's eyeing, though, just because consoles are listed as having it, even if they don't have a full implementation (low framerate cap or upscaling). If the new GPUs don't run 4K flawlessly because NVIDIA has decided to give us as little an upgrade as possible, we are going to have a good reason to be upset as PC enthusiasts.
 
NVIDIA definitely are capable of launching the next flagship with 16GB as standard, but because of the serious problem right now with RAM prices, I think it's extremely unlikely they will do that until the next Titan/Ti series cards.

A possibility is that they could launch two variations with the 16GB costing about $100-200 more than the 8GB (I know, steep right).
 
Have RAM prices not being coming down? From what I recall governments are starting to look into their price fixing.

But probably any fines they will get will a fraction of the profits they made price fixing anyway.
 
RanxZy said:
NVIDIA definitely are capable of launching the next flagship with 16GB as standard, but because of the serious problem right now with RAM prices, I think it's extremely unlikely they will do that until the next Titan/Ti series cards.

A possibility is that they could launch two variations with the 16GB costing about $100-200 more than the 8GB (I know, steep right).
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Next Titan may have 16gb but it would be very unlikely that cards lower down the range will as this would make it hard to justify paying the extra for the Titan.

Also I have not seen any game use more than 11gb of memory @2160p with all the settings maxed so NVidia would be wasting money on memory for a mainstream card if they went beyond 12gb.

I suspect the new 1180 or whatever they are going to call it will pack 3840 cores and a 384 bit bus, this matches up quite well with 12gb of GDDR memory. Also using this spec and 12nm means the card will be about 10% to 15% faster than a Pascal Titan.
 
Kaapstad said:
Next Titan may have 16gb but it would be very unlikely that cards lower down the range will as this would make it hard to justify paying the extra for the Titan.

Also I have not seen any game use more than 11gb of memory @2160p with all the settings maxed so NVidia would be wasting money on memory for a mainstream card if they went beyond 12gb.

I suspect the new 1180 or whatever they are going to call it will pack 3840 cores and a 384 bit bus, this matches up quite well with 12gb of GDDR memory. Also using this spec and 12nm means the card will be about 10% to 15% faster than a Pascal Titan.
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I think a 384bit bus on a non-ti model is unlikey, as they would have to give the ti/titian a 512bit bus to separate it, in both cases it would drive up die size and cost and power abit as well (not to much though)

256bit with GDDR6 and any other memory bandwith saving tech will be more than enough, If AMD was realy screwing/pressuring them then maybe a 384/512bit bus would be used if it gave meaningful extra performance
 
KillBoY_UK said:
I think a 384bit bus on a non-ti model is unlikey, as they would have to give the ti/titian a 512bit bus to separate it, in both cases it would drive up die size and cost and power abit as well (not to much though)

256bit with GDDR6 and any other memory bandwith saving tech will be more than enough, If AMD was realy screwing/pressuring them then maybe a 384/512bit bus would be used if it gave meaningful extra performance
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The Titan is already out and does not use GDDR memory or a 384bit or even 512bit bus so using a 384bit bus for a mainstream card would be no problem.

What is interesting though is unless NVidia use a 512bit bus on a mainstream card (not going to happen) 16gb of GDDR memory is also off the table unless they make some awkward compromises elsewhere.
 
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