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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?
- Thread starter Kaapstad
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You mean like the 1080 Ti and Titan Xp which both use GDDR5X and run 4k very well.
Something most people don't even consider when talking about memory ability is GDDR5X is more than fast enough @2160p for 4 way SLI with a stack of Titans. Don't forget that in SLI the memory is mirrored on all cards and with 4 cards in play the fps even at 2160p is very high. The biggest problem I find with mGPU is not the memory but how the cards are connected when using 4 cards, AMDs solution using the PCI-E slot is bad as it has to share that bandwidth with the normal GPU stuff and NVidia are not much better where there are no HB 4 way SLI bridges.
That is not the point I am making.
I am pointing out that GDDR5X is capable of dealing with very high fps @2160p, far more than a single card can produce on its own.
Unfortunately Volta is nowhere near powerful enough to max out 4K.
A number of 10 series cards have been refreshed with faster memory like the GTX 1060, 1080 and Pascal Titan.
Shiny is so hard to resist at times, it just has to be bought even if it isn't needed
The Titan Xp is a beast even on the stock air cooler.
Probably sometime around March 2018 for the mid range cards and August 2018 for the Titan. The Ti will probably turn up about 6 months after.
This is based on what NVidia did with Pascal.
This also means that there won't be any big jumps in performance until the arrival of the Titan.
If someone has already got a 1080 Ti I don't think they will see anything noticeably faster with Volta until the Titan turns up in 12 months time or the Volta Ti in about 18 months time.
The best anyone is likely to get with the Volta mid range cards is about 25% over the current 1080 Ti which makes upgrading not very appealing.
It's complicated.
If you overclock both the 980 Ti and 1080 the Pascal card is about 25% faster.
If you run a Kingpin 980 Ti on LN2 it will beat any 1080 on LN2.
Maxwell is more efficient per clockcycle than Pascal.
For normal use though a 1080 is about 25% faster than a GTX 980 Ti.
You mean like the way we heard about the Titan Xp?
I was very impressed by the way the Titan Xp managed to get past all the clickbait and rumour mill sites.
How could they miss the fastest gaming GPU product launch lol.
Don't think we will see any HBM gaming cards from NVidia now that GDDR6 is available.
I hope AMD also start using GDDR6 for their future cards.
I hope AMD also start using GDDR6 for their future cards.
There is no reason to stop a GDDR5(X)(6) card from using a bit more power than a HBM based one. There are also advantages too in moving the memory away from the GPU core as it makes cooling easier and higher clockspeeds more possible.
If the next round of AMD cards do use GDDR6 and consume an extra 20 watts who cares if it means the cards are easier to manufacture and there are plenty of them on the shelves.
I think design is more important than how many watts a card pulls, the GTX 480 was just a very poorly designed card as it used less power than a lot of todays top end cards yet it ran very hot.
Rubbish
The Titan V is about 33% faster on average
With async compute the difference is more like 50% to 100% faster.
I think I will just carry on with my old cards.