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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?

Simon Belmont said:
Exactly what I'm doing. My GTX1080 with my Acer x34a ultra-wide is more then enough with all current games. No need for 1080Ti. I'll be going for GTX2080 the min it lands:D
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Jono8 said:
Yep, i was hoping Vega might surprise us and give us 1080TI performance for under £500 but that doesn't look like that is going to happen now so i will wait for Volta. My 1080 still does extremely well at 1440p anyway so don't really need to upgrade yet anyway.
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Only sporadically I wish for more GPU power: watch dogs 2 being the prime example. A better CPU would help here as well.
 
My 980Ti still does pretty well at 1440p 165hz tbh, didn't even need the power but still went 1080Ti, beast of a card. Can't see me changing to a 2080 for a likely 20% or so increase, next stop 2080Ti. Hopefully it will come early like the 980Ti did as some here have suggested, middle of next year would be good. Cash already waiting :)
 
I wish AMD got it's act together on the high end GPU front. I'm happy about their Ryzen launch finally bringing in much needed competition into the CPU market but having Nvidia ruling the roost means high end GPU prices are obscene.
I really hope that when Volta lands AMD has something competitive.
 
Simon Belmont said:
Well hopefully with Coffeelake around the corner that should solve that issue for you :)
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I'm counting on it! It can't be any worse than my current chip eh ;)

Perfect_Chaos said:
My 980Ti still does pretty well at 1440p 165hz tbh, didn't even need the power but still went 1080Ti, beast of a card. Can't see me changing to a 2080 for a likely 20% or so increase, next stop 2080Ti. Hopefully it will come early like the 980Ti did as some here have suggested, middle of next year would be good. Cash already waiting :)
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I doubt the '2080' Ti will come knocking that quickly after its initial release - but kudos if it does!
 
Dave2150 said:
Coffeelake is just plain old Skylake in a 6 core mainstream variant, nothing to be excited about. It's performance and features are already available on x299, if you have the funds.
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I think most want the 6 core and it should be better then first Skylake. Most can't afford the hugely over priced x299 and all that heat. I'll pass thank you :)
 
Dave2150 said:
Coffeelake is just plain old Skylake in a 6 core mainstream variant, nothing to be excited about. It's performance and features are already available on x299, if you have the funds.
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thats something to be excited about imo, we've been on quad core mainstream parts for what 7-8 years?

ryzen has finally made intel step it up a notch. until now there has been no upgrade path from my 2500k at the same price point, a 6600k/7600k does not seem like an upgrade.

now we have the ryzen 1600 and coffelake i5 6 core on the horizon
 
JediFragger said:
Ti-to-Ti (combined with a quality Gsync monitor) is the smart move for those with the budget for it :cool:
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Nah, 80 to 80 :).
Get in on the new technology early.
Or TX to TX, get the best of the new tech at the earliest time as long as you don't care about the TI later being nearly as fast, as fast or slightly faster albeit 6+ months into the life of the architecture (rather than TXP and 80 being closer to the beginning).
Guess it all depends on how much £ someone has to spend
 
DarrenM343 said:
Nah, 80 to 80 :).
Get in on the new technology early.
Or TX to TX, get the best of the new tech at the earliest time as long as you don't care about the TI later being nearly as fast, as fast or slightly faster albeit 6+ months into the life of the architecture (rather than TXP and 80 being closer to the beginning).
Guess it all depends on how much £ someone has to spend
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80-80 or Ti - Ti I can understand. The titan is just the worst thing you can buy because of the Ti. The cycle of either of the former two last approximately just as long so both are good options in my book.
 
JediFragger said:
Tbf it's only gonna be a 20-25% improvement at best. you're better off waiting and drop a couple of non-essential settings to boost fps in the meantime ;)
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You can see the improvements to Volta pretty good by comparing GP100 with GV100 and there you'll see between 40-50% more perf. I'll expect the same 40% for gamers. You don't build a new gpu for just 20%.
 
Simon Belmont said:
nVidia are known too though.
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Comparison of GX104 and GX100/102 don't fit here and generational jumps were always bigger. For 2080 vs 1080Ti it'll be even less than 20% i think.

JediFragger said:
Exactly. They'll keep the high performing stuff for the Titans I reckon. Ti is rumoured to be on a 7nm shrink anyhow, now THAT will be tasty :cool:
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7nm Ti? Sure, just wait for 2020. Before you won't get it. 2019 you'll just see the Gx04 cards on 7nm, as before apple and qc will use all the 7nm wafer. Next year the only possible 7nm gpu would be from amd in christmas timeframe. But i also doubt that.
 
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