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What the expectation on Volta's release for us gamers?
What the expectation on Volta's release for us gamers?
What the expectation on Volta's release for us gamers?
March 2018 new Titan, which fits to Hynix statements. Mid Year the corresponding Ti, as it can't come later this time because of 7nm. All other? Probably H1 2018.
A Ti release so shortly after the initial release? Nah I don't believe that.
It will be the same as with GTX980Ti. Reason for the fast release wasn't Fury, but the timeframe till 1080 comes. Fury only influenced the price. Nvidia wants to have a return on investment and that's only possible if the Ti is ~1year on the market. It's useless to plan a product if the successor in 7nm comes in 6 month. So Ti will come again pretty fast, but as Nvidia probably won't have competition the price won't be nice.
Titan Volta is March, 2080 Q4 this year
Do you have a reliable source for that time frame or is merely expectations?
What the expectation on Volta's release for us gamers?
We know SK Hynix is supplying GDDR6 for a GPU released in early 2018 over a 384bit interface giving 768GBps. That is a fact
We then can speculate That that is Titan Volta, the 2080 won't need that much BW at all and AMD won't be dropping HBM2. Since Nvidia will want to release the 2080 before the Titan it will likely come Q4 this year.
26th March 2018 is the current guesstimate.
edit - Read the above and it makes sense, 2080 early w/GDDR5X and Titan in March with the GDDR6
Nvidia will use GDDR6 from the get go I imagine. 5X was more of a bridging part.
Depends when the chips are ready tbh. If they can get them out of the door a couple of months early I don't think they'll mind using the X part.
They won't mind indeed. The question then becomes, do they need to get them out of the door early? Not likely.
Since Nvidia will want to release the 2080 before the Titan it will likely come Q4 this year.
How much does a wafer tend to cost to produce? One working GPU per wafer seems quite wasteful.