Next Round of Nvidia GPU's ?

[Squid Vicious]

Do either nV or AMD ever release in April/ May? It's normally August/ September isn't it? August to October seems to be the usual window for both vendors. At least for the first cards of a new series. They trickle the rest out month by month after that.

The 1070/1080 were released in May 2016 see https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/the-pascal-gtx-1080-owners-thread.18731387/

I believe the 970/980 were Q3 release though

[Edit] yup https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/nvidia-gtx-980-owners-thread.18624917/

 

[melmac]

Do either nV or AMD ever release in April/ May? It's normally August/ September isn't it? August to October seems to be the usual window for both vendors. At least for the first cards of a new series. They trickle the rest out month by month after that.

Yes, they do, the 480 was April, The 680/670 were March, The first Titan was end of February, the 780/1070 and 1080 were May. The 7970/7950 were January then the Ghz edition in May. There are more cards released in Q1/Q2 than you realise.

 

[Kaapstad]

NVidia are just about to launch yet another Pascal card.

https://www.techpowerup.com/239992/nvidia-prepares-a-geforce-gtx-1060-5gb-for-internet-cafes

I don't think we will be seeing gaming Volta anytime soon if NVidia are still releasing new Pascal cards.

 

[TNA]

Gaming Volta? Thought they were skipping that and going to Ampere or whatever it is called in H1 2018? Hopefully with GDDR6.

 

[Wrinkly]

Isn't it the end of H1 for GDDR6? Early Ampere Q3 at best.

 

[r7slayer]

Isn't it the end of H1 for GDDR6? Early Ampere Q3 at best.

exactly, i'm not sure why so many was expecting Volta cards or anything from nvidia so early. I said no chance this year like some were touting and most were expecting Q1 release of new cards. Nope i said that was doubtful. They are in a very good position with Pascal and Jensen said he has no intention of releasing new cards. Pascal is just too good atm.
Anyway looks like Volta was designed more for compute so i guess they are avoiding Volta for consumer GPUs altogether. Ampere is what we are looking at now and nvidia havnt even announced anything yet so we will be waiting well into 2k18

 

[shamus21]

What ever Nvidia do in 2018 you can be sure of one thing the 1080ti will look like a cheap card compared to the new one`s at the top end.

 

[Simon Belmont]

What ever Nvidia do in 2018 you can be sure of one thing the 1080ti will look like a cheap card compared to the new one`s at the top end.

Not for quite a while yet. 1080Ti still going strong and holding it's value well into 2018.

 

[Rroff]

Isn't it the end of H1 for GDDR6? Early Ampere Q3 at best.

See GDDR5X (and what people said back then) - I wouldn't base timeframe for nVidia GPUs on the full commercial launch of GDDR6 necessarily.

 

[aoaaron]

What ever Nvidia do in 2018 you can be sure of one thing the 1080ti will look like a cheap card compared to the new one`s at the top end.

... £750 for a good 1080ti?

I don't think with the next revision of cards thats ever going to look cheap. If it ever hits 600ish then yes.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Doubt we'll see anything new yet, Pascal still going strong.

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 5GB Windforce OC pictured

https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1060-5gb-windforce-oc-pictured

 

[nashathedog]

Nvidia's in no rush, I imagine they'll milk Pascal for as long as they can while there's no competition at the middle or top of the stack, everything AMD's levelled at the 1070 or higher is beaten on price and power draw and usually performance so Nvidia's not in a rush, By the time they need to move on I imagine they'll have a full range of chips ready to go. AMD's only hope to stay in the game is to get infinity fabrics gpu's released. If they glue (as Intel put it) two or more gpu chips together giving double the performance or more with none of the crossfire problems they'll be on to a winner. Fingers crossed.

 

[Bazzards]

If they glue (as Intel put it) two or more gpu chips together giving double the performance or more with none of the crossfire problems they'll be on to a winner. Fingers crossed.

This could be immense if either of them pull it off.

 

[nashathedog]

This could be immense if either of them pull it off.

It'll certainly turn over the apple cart, fingers crossed.

 

[Telecaster]

Just noticed something I was not expecting on the Titan V

I just thought I would run Luxmark 3.1 to see how hot the cards get when overclocked to see if the DP cores produce much heat and to see if it would make much difference to performance. The cards ran at about 50C.

The weird thing is the cards run at much lower speeds when doing Luxmark 3.1 around 1642mhz was the highest they got, when they are running normal games/benchmarks they can go over 2000mhz. It is like the cards have one mode for gaming and another for compute.

The cards were definitely overclocked as the result I got was 20% higher than the stock run.

Could someone also clear up whether Luxmark uses DP or just SP compute.

You can get this when mining too. Different algorithms put the card under different loads, even when clocked exactly the same and with the same TDP I can get core speeds varying from 1500-1900mhz, all be it I'm talking about 1070s here but the principle seems to be the same as you mention.

Out of interest it would be cool if you could download nicehash and benchmark it for the lols.

 

[Wrinkly]

See GDDR5X (and what people said back then) - I wouldn't base timeframe for nVidia GPUs on the full commercial launch of GDDR6 necessarily.

I would be surprised if GDDR6 has the same controller as 5/5X. I'd also be surprised if they rushed mid / high end cards with old gen memory.

 

[Rroff]

I would be surprised if GDDR6 has the same controller as 5/5X. I'd also be surprised if they rushed mid / high end cards with old gen memory.

That isn't what I'm saying - people were insistent that Pascal wouldn't launch until months after it did based on the commercial launch of GDDR5X but nVidia did a deal to get hold of it early.

 

[Wrinkly]

That isn't what I'm saying - people were insistent that Pascal wouldn't launch until months after it did based on the commercial launch of GDDR5X but nVidia did a deal to get hold of it early.

Even if Nvidia do a deal to get some early, thats still the end of H1. You will not get a mid or high end card until Q3 earliest. Unless you are talking about another paper launch?

 

[DarrenM343]

Even if Nvidia do a deal to get some early, thats still the end of H1. You will not get a mid or high end card until Q3 earliest. Unless you are talking about another paper launch?

I remember that too. People have short memories and continue to speculate (fun I guess).
This new card is not for retail and think that it give no indication of how soon/far off next gen will be. I reckon Mar - June based on previous cycles though....and past performance is of course not indicative of future .
We're at a stage I think with GPU's that unless you're running 4K, you can stay a generation behind. Of course we all like top performance however.
Not sure GDDR6 is desperately needed and doubt NV would delay a release because of that.

 

[melmac]

We're at a stage I think with GPU's that unless you're running 4K, you can stay a generation behind. Of course we all like top performance however.
Not sure GDDR6 is desperately needed and doubt NV would delay a release because of that.

I think we are at the stage where we need more GPU power than ever. 4K is becoming mainstream. VR headsets are been released that require two 1080ti's to run properly. And, mining doesn't seem to be going away, if anything it's growing.