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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?

Addicted said:
Just seen this after ordering a 1080 Ti, should I cancel and wait?

Damnit lol.
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I just pulled the trigger on a 1080Ti for my 1440p/165Hz monitor. Volta for consumers won't launch this year and the good aftermarket cards will trail behind the eventual launch by several weeks. It could be six months or more until you have a Volta that beats the 1080Ti and I think it's better to have the performance now if you can afford it. The resale value will go down when the xx70 launches (assuming, once again, that it matches the previous generation's Ti) but that comes with the territory of buying top-end hardware.
 
Always depends what you already owned. a lot of the time there is no need to upgrade really. I would just sell the ti in a few months and wait then but I reckon volta is not for 6 months min
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
SAMSUNG 16Gb GDDR6 memory receives CES Innovation Award

https://videocardz.com/newz/samsung-16gb-gddr6-memory-receives-ces-innovation-award

GDDR6 almost ready for volume production with Volta GV102 Titan Xv and GV104 GTX 2080 & 2070 launch few months away not far in January or March 2018. :D
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I think now is the time we can start getting excited about Volta, hopefully we'll hear SOMETHING in January if not we will in March, a Ti class card has never had more than a year of being the 'top dog'

780 Ti launched 7th November 2013
GTX 980 Launched September 18th, a gap of 10 months and a week

GTX 980 Ti launched June 1st 2015
GTX 1080 launched May 27th 2016 11 months 3 weeks.
So yea, at most I'd say we're 4 months away from Volta
 
TNA said:
GeForce 2000 series you say? 2080 & 2070 you say? @spoffle is going to go mad :p
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People who can't count have been saying the next series will be 20XX for ages now. That article is just speculation based on the next generation of nVidia GPUs.

64GB/s data I/O bandwidth, which is equivalent to transferring approximately 12 full-HD DVDs (5GB equivalent) per second.
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See, they can't count. You can't get "FULL-HD" DVDs. DVDs are 4.7GB, dual layer are 9.4GB, and full HD movies are much bigger than 5GB.
 
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spoffle said:
People who can't count have been saying the next series will be 20XX for ages now. That article is just speculation based on the next generation of nVidia GPUs.



See, they can't count. You can't get "FULL-HD" DVDs. DVDs are 4.7GB, dual layer are 9.4GB, and full HD movies are much bigger than 5GB.
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Come of it mate. Nothing to do with not being able to count and you know it (at least in my case anyway) ;)
 
"This is Samsung’s first GDDR6 module. The chip pictured below is an engineering sample provided for the sole purpose of this award.Officially this module is still ‘under development’, but that didn’t stop CES board from giving it an award.

The CES takes place next year in January"

That's from the article, so if its still under development i can't see it being finished and mass produced fro Volta which is supposedly to be announced in march then released around the same time. They need to have cards using GDDR6 as prototypes around this time don't they? And start mass producing them early next year. Does something not sound off? All this within 4 months?
Sounds like another speculation article to me.
 
r7slayer said:
"This is Samsung’s first GDDR6 module. The chip pictured below is an engineering sample provided for the sole purpose of this award.Officially this module is still ‘under development’, but that didn’t stop CES board from giving it an award.

The CES takes place next year in January"

That's from the article, so if its still under development i can't see it being finished and mass produced fro Volta which is supposedly to be announced in march then released around the same time. They need to have cards using GDDR6 as prototypes around this time don't they? And start mass producing them early next year. Does something not sound off? All this within 4 months?
Sounds like another speculation article to me.
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As someone mentioned elsewhere GDDR5X was in a similar position when nVidia picked it up.

Also not sure we will see GDDR6 on Volta on gaming cards or even Volta as is for that matter - GDDR6 will likely come on a newer core.
 
spoffle said:
See, they can't count. You can't get "FULL-HD" DVDs. DVDs are 4.7GB, dual layer are 9.4GB, and full HD movies are much bigger than 5GB.
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I don't know why Samsung said that in press release, guess they mean full HD x265 and HEVC encoded DVDs, lots of people like me encoded HD clips and TV programmes to fit in blank DVD-RW.
 
Rroff said:
As someone mentioned elsewhere GDDR5X was in a similar position when nVidia picked it up.

Also not sure we will see GDDR6 on Volta on gaming cards or even Volta as is for that matter - GDDR6 will likely come on a newer core.
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Yea that's true but wasn't the Volta Titan added to the GPU-Z database? In Fact i'm sure Athlon XP posted that. So if that's already being manufactured it's very unlikely that it will use GDDR6.
 
r7slayer said:
So if that's already being manufactured it's very unlikely that it will use GDDR6.
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While supposedly GDDR6 has a lot of backwards compatibility so a complete redesign probably wouldn't be required that was kind of along the lines of what I was hinting towards earlier.
 
Rroff said:
While supposedly GDDR6 has a lot of backwards compatibility so a complete redesign probably wouldn't be required that was kind of along the lines of what I was hinting towards earlier.
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Wouldn't they still need to tweak their memory controller though? I guess it's doable to make other revisions of the cards i guess.
 
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