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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?

I think we'll see volta at least for the high end, unless it was just never meant for the gaming market which is something I doubt.
IMO, Nvidia have an aggressive development plan for their other non-gaming market customers. It would make sense to also allow GeForce to use the current technology for extra sales especially if they have a parts bin building up, otherwise we're going to also end up generations apart as well and lots of difference cards being manufactured. If the costs of VOlta are too high I can see a Pascal refresh happening for the lower end cards for sure, in the mid-term.
Also think 18months - 2 years is a bit long to just have a refresh of entire range, however good Pascal has been.
 
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Maybe Volta is more orientated towards commercial usage?? I think reading around on this forum and elsewhere some posters have hinted this might be the case. Ampere might simply be a feature updated Pascal on an improved node with GDDR6. TBF,as long as Nvidia can get a decent performance bump,does it really matter if its a fully new uarch or not??

For one thing it would make driver and games optimisations much easier from the get-go too!
 
DarrenM343 said:
I think we'll see volta at least for the high end, unless it was just never meant for the gaming market which is something I doubt.
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Existing Volta was clearly designed heavily for computing.


JediFragger said:
I kinda don't mind this. As we know, gameplay is king, and the games with the most amazing graphics aren't always the most enjoyable. We're at a tipping point atm imo where graphics are solid, and devs will have to focus more and more on gameplay in order to differentiate themselves from the competition. We all know what has happened to Hollywood in this respect, thinking that throwing $$$ at the screen = a better movie when it really doesn't!
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Would be indeed time to put more effort back into actual game play quality and diversity of games.
Many game genres have been pretty much neglected while developers have been churning out few basic types of games along with annual updates.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Maybe Volta is more orientated towards commercial usage?? I think reading around on this forum and elsewhere some posters have hinted this might be the case. Ampere might simply be a feature updated Pascal on an improved node with GDDR6. TBF,as long as Nvidia can get a decent performance bump,does it really matter if its a fully new uarch or not??

For one thing it would make driver and games optimizations much easier from the get-go too!
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A lot fo stuff in Volta is orientated towards compute and deep learning, some stuff will be beneficial to gaming. Volta is already aging in relative terms, so it is quote conceivable that Amper eis something like a half generation beyond Volta with a higher focus on gaming over compute.

If Ampere was simply a respin Pascal with minor changes Nvidia would keep the Pascal code-name and simply update the version numbers like Maxwell, original Maxwell GPUs were series 1 but these only existed in the 940 and some mobile cad, Maxwell 2 is what almost all the desktop cards were.
 
D.P. said:
A lot fo stuff in Volta is orientated towards compute and deep learning, some stuff will be beneficial to gaming. Volta is already aging in relative terms, so it is quote conceivable that Amper eis something like a half generation beyond Volta with a higher focus on gaming over compute.

If Ampere was simply a respin Pascal with minor changes Nvidia would keep the Pascal code-name and simply update the version numbers like Maxwell, original Maxwell GPUs were series 1 but these only existed in the 940 and some mobile cad, Maxwell 2 is what almost all the desktop cards were.
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I hope it is more than a respin Pascal. But as long as it brings a nice performance boost going to 12nm then I cannot complain.

Does anyone have a rough idea what it is we may get? I would love to see xx70 bring close to 1080Ti performance, but not sure if Nvidia will do that with AMD being so far behind. Also is it realistic to expect these to have GDDR6 if they are released in H1 of next year?
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Nvidias the cheaper brand now.
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Sure, sure. I look forward to the 1160/2060 - which out-performs a Vega 64 - retailing for aboot £550; or if you fancy selling a kidney you could go for the 1180/2080 for £900... or the Titan at £2500...

Truly the budget champions ;)

Just so this post isn't biased... both sides suck sweaty bottom for value these days. I won't be buying either.

I'll be too busy enjoying my PS4 and having some cash in my walltet :p I guess I should thank AMD and nV for saving me the money of a stupidly expensive hobby.
 
JediFragger said:
Good luck with those £50 game purchases! :eek:
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Thanks to the 2nd hand market, the trick is to just keep swapping them with others.

You might buy a couple games and end up completing 10-20... just keep swapping.

If you're the kind of person who likes to build up a vast library of games then yeah, what you say is valid. But if you just want to play and swap, it really doesn't have to be any more expensive than PC gaming.

Just tot up the value of all those "Steam sale" games you bought over the years... and then never played :p
 
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