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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?

beany_bot said:
I guess this is my go to thread now as I don't think I'll be doing my 4K upgrade this year.
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Yeah I'm on 4K now and sold a 1080ti a few months back, want to buy back in for some light gaming with things like The Golf Club 2 but acceptable 4K performance is still very much at the top end unless you can put up with lower framerates or low/medium settings. A 1060 would probably suffice but with the inflated prices of late I could have had a used 1070 for low 200's by now if it weren't for mining and the pound.
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
https://www.kitguru.net/components/...roduction-of-12nm-volta-gpus-later-this-year/

Volta consumer Geforce GPUs will enter volume production sometime in Q4 2017 to prepare for launch in early 2018 or Q1 2018.
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As it may say TSMC are preparing to kick of production of Volta GPUs its also worth noting in that artical

"It’s worth noting that Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, recently told investors during an earnings call that gamers should not expect Volta before the end of 2017, stating that for the foreseeable future “Pascal is just unbeatable”. You can find the full quote below:"
“Volta for gaming, we haven’t announced anything. And all I can say is that our pipeline is filled with some exciting new toys for the gamers, and we have some really exciting new technology to offer them in the pipeline. But for the holiday season for the foreseeable future, I think Pascal is just unbeatable.”

It's looking more like Volta professional cards not gaming ones to me.
Exciting new toys but not volta? Wonder what that can be?
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Kicking myself for not getting the TX Pascal when it launched last year August.

Decided to wait and wait, and wait. Would have been done and dusted with a massive performance improvement.

Now I'm waiting for Volta Titan.
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The smart money is on the xx80 Ti card. It comes within ~6 months of the Titan Card and is normally identical performance for half the price. And then Titan -> Titan is the same time as xx80 Ti -> xx80 Ti.

So if you initially wait an extra 6 months, you end up with the same cadence, for same performance, for half the price.

The Titan is just the 'fan' card, you'd buy it if you want to give Nvidia more money because you like them.

Also remember the Titans always come with the terrible stock blower coolers, so really you have to put them under water if you want the most (and quietness) out of them. And this adds further cost.
 
AllBodies said:
The smart money is on the xx80 Ti card. It comes within ~6 months of the Titan Card and is normally identical performance for half the price. And then Titan -> Titan is the same time as xx80 Ti -> xx80 Ti.

So if you initially wait an extra 6 months, you end up with the same cadence, for same performance, for half the price.

The Titan is just the 'fan' card, you'd buy it if you want to give Nvidia more money because you like them.

Also remember the Titans always come with the terrible stock blower coolers, so really you have to put them under water if you want the most (and quietness) out of them. And this adds further cost.
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Honestly I can't be bothered waiting even longer.

Stock coolers aren't an issue for me unless they're screaming banshees like the FX 5800 or 290X.

Use to run sli 980ti's.

Once Titan Volta drops and it's a decent upgrade I'll likely get it. Already been waiting since Polaris rumours when I sold my other 980Ti and PG278Q.
Really can't be bothered waiting an extra 6 months on what will be over two years by then.
 
Going from a 295x2 to a 1080 showed no real improvement in fps, but great improvement in gaming experience (bye bye SLI / Crossfire stutter). So I am really keen to see what the next round of Nvidia cards are capable of. 100fps in all games at top settings on a Ultrawide 1440 screen. Oh that would be sweet. the 1080 is so nearly there.

So I wait for the xx80 either Titan (if not fools gold price) or Ti (if I can be patient enough).
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Honestly I can't be bothered waiting even longer.

Stock coolers aren't an issue for me unless they're screaming banshees like the FX 5800 or 290X.

Use to run sli 980ti's.

Once Titan Volta drops and it's a decent upgrade I'll likely get it. Already been waiting since Polaris rumours when I sold my other 980Ti and PG278Q.
Really can't be bothered waiting an extra 6 months on what will be over two years by then.
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Still a Titan V makes no sense in my eyes. Before doing that i would just buy a 1080Ti now, have it for a year and sell it when GV102 TI arrives. This way you would have 6 months way more power to game and with 1080Ti you can play most of the stuff pretty good. And buying the 2 TIs and selling the older 1080Ti will still cost you less money than a single titan. Especially as the next Titan will probably be 1500$.
 
Yeah, there's almost no chance of me ever getting a Titan, i don't want to support those kind of prices.. 1080Ti should launch at the start of a gen, but Nvidia of course want that money.

It's not like 1080Ti will suddenly be useless anyways, the next standard x80 card won't be that much more powerful than it.
 
I'm going to wait for this, I'm on a R290 and it is still doing the goods for me at 1080p. If the 1080/ti pascals drop in 2nd hand £££ enough I may buy one of those, depends on Volta's performance increase over them.

Vega is a huge disappointment :/
 
Ayahuasca said:
What resoltuion and are you planning on upping the resolution during the time you'd own the 1080ti?
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Gaming at 3440x1440 and planning to stay there for a long time. The 1080 just about meets the 100 fps for refresh rate but I do need to drop the settings on a few titles. Ideally I want that little bit of headroom to cover Project Cars 2 and any other AAA titles that come in the next year. I am kinda abit fed up of waiting for cards to come and not just enjoying the games today. I waited for ages for the Vega cards but gave up after a year of waiting and bought the 1080. A single month later, the ti came out....typical :)

So, now I wonder if I should get rid of the 1080 and replace with a ti and just stop watching potential cards for the next year or so and just enjoy gaming :)
 
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