Volta news? Is there any?

[FakeNSA]

So my stopgap card, an hd 6870 died last month. I at this point will probably purchase a gtx 1060 very soon, as I miss playing games, and intel 530 does not cut it for anything<5 years old. But, do we have a date for volta? I don't want to buy a card that will be a waste of money in a month, but do we know when it will launch? Thanks..

Sorry that this rambled, I am fried right now.

Aelar Nailo

[gbergeron]

3 minutes ago, Aelar_Nailo said:

So my stopgap card, an hd 6870 died last month. I at this point will probably purchase a gtx 1060 very soon, as I miss playing games, and intel 530 does not cut it for anything<5 years old. But, do we have a date for volta? I don't want to buy a card that will be a waste of money in a month, but do we know when it will launch? Thanks..

Sorry that this rambled, I am fried right now.

Aelar Nailo

Volta was supposed to be Q4 of 2017. Nvidia announced that it will be in 2018 finally. Due to VEGA not being very competitive, they don't feel the urge to put volta for consumers.

 

So.... buy the 1060 unless you want to wait like 1 year+

[FakeNSA]

Just now, gbergeron said:

Volta was supposed to be Q4 of 2017. Nvidia announced that it will be in 2018 finally. Due to VEGA not being very competitive, they don't feel the urge to put volta for consumers.

 

So.... buy the 1060 unless you want to wait like 1 year+

Thanks, will do.... I guess that's as good as it will get?

[Guest lilbman]

Don't get stuck into this phase of not buying.  Don't wait for Volta.

 

Lets say you do wait for Volta and are about to buy it, and then you see rumors of the architecture after that-lets call it Copperfield.  You'll end up not buying a Volta GPU because you want to wait for Copperfield, and once Copperfield gets here, you wait for the one AFTER Copperfield...and you ultimately end up not buying a GPU because you want to wait 'for the next great thing'.

 

If I were you, I'd buy a 1050Ti or something of the like and then buy the 1060 of Volta.   You're going to get outdated anyway GPU wise, so you might as well buy a graphics card now.

[Shiv78]

1 minute ago, Aelar_Nailo said:

Thanks, will do.... I guess that's as good as it will get?

I'd still wait a bit, 1060/580 prices are still high.

[linustouchtips]

volta is not coming any time soon find the card you like now at a solid price and buy it gl. 

[Princess Luna]

Volta was coming on Q1 2018 but since Vega failed nVidia is further delaying it.

 

[FakeNSA]

1 minute ago, lilbman said:

Don't get stuck into this phase of not buying.  Don't wait for Volta.

 

Lets say you do wait for Volta and are about to buy it, and then you see rumors of the architecture after that-lets call it Copperfield.  You'll end up not buying a Volta GPU because you want to wait for Copperfield, and once Copperfield gets here, you wait for the one AFTER Copperfield...and you ultimately end up not buying a GPU because you want to wait 'for the next great thing'.

 

If I were you, I'd buy a 1050Ti or something of the like and then buy the 1060 of Volta.   You're going to get outdated anyway GPU wise, so you might as well buy a graphics card now.

I would only wait for volta if it was<1month away. I hate that mentality as well.

Just now, Shiv78 said:

I'd still wait a bit, 1060/580 prices are still high.

I'll look for a deal, thanks.

Just now, linustouchtips said:

volta is not coming any time soon find the card you like now at a solid price and buy it gl. 

Yeah.... Thanks.

[SlaughterSmurf]

Nvidia said 2018.... not Q1 2018.... 2018. I would guess it's at least like 8 months away. DO NOT WAIT FOR IT! Get a 1060 or RX 580 if you can get good price. You could also look into used 980 or 980ti's if the prices for the previous two are too high.

[gbergeron]

14 minutes ago, SlaughterSmurf said:

Nvidia said 2018.... not Q1 2018.... 2018. I would guess it's at least like 8 months away. DO NOT WAIT FOR IT! Get a 1060 or RX 580 if you can get good price. You could also look into used 980 or 980ti's if the prices for the previous two are too high.

they said Q4 2017 at first, then Q1 2018, then , not soon lollll

[SlaughterSmurf]

Just now, gbergeron said:

they said Q4 2017 at first, then Q1 2018, then , not soon lollll

Yeah, if it's not Q1 2018 that's at the earliest April of 2018 which is about 8 months away. I assume it's because that's when Nvidia is betting on Navi launching. Nvidia doesn't need to launch Volta because the 1080 and 1070 are still perfectly fine choices against their AMD counterparts, so why bother?

[gbergeron]

5 minutes ago, SlaughterSmurf said:

Yeah, if it's not Q1 2018 that's at the earliest April of 2018 which is about 8 months away. I assume it's because that's when Nvidia is betting on Navi launching. Nvidia doesn't need to launch Volta because the 1080 and 1070 are still perfectly fine choices against their AMD counterparts, so why bother?

Yes last part is sad... Who cares if AMD can't compete, GIVE US VOLTA NOW !!  

[TVwazhere]

40 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

I'd still wait a bit, 1060/580 prices are still high.

Definitely still high, but you can get the EVGA single fan 1060 6gb for $255

 

(goddamnit it went up to $320 in one day FML)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IPVSGEC/?tag=pcpapi-20&th=1

[pzspah]

1 hour ago, lilbman said:

Don't get stuck into this phase of not buying.  Don't wait for Volta.

 

Lets say you do wait for Volta and are about to buy it, and then you see rumors of the architecture after that-lets call it Copperfield.  You'll end up not buying a Volta GPU because you want to wait for Copperfield, and once Copperfield gets here, you wait for the one AFTER Copperfield...and you ultimately end up not buying a GPU because you want to wait 'for the next great thing'.

 

This would have made perfect sense if 10xx wasn't so old already.

[SlaughterSmurf]

1 hour ago, pzspah said:

 

This would have made perfect sense if 10xx wasn't so old already.

Nvidia has delayed Volta to beyond Q1 2018... We're stuck with these cards for at least 8 months. I wouldn't wait 8 months for a GPU. 

[Deedot78]

NO compelling competition from AMD,  NO need.  Just like intel pre  Ryzen. 

[Guest lilbman]

4 hours ago, pzspah said:

 

This would have made perfect sense if 10xx wasn't so old already.

Old is a relative term-old compared to what?  Pascal is NVIDIA's newest architecture.  Compared to Vega, yeah, its old, but it still offers better performance than Vega.  

[Shiv78]

On 8/15/2017 at 9:07 PM, lilbman said:

Old is a relative term-old compared to what?  Pascal is NVIDIA's newest architecture.  Compared to Vega, yeah, its old, but it still offers better performance than Vega.  

Isn't Pascal just a Maxwell die shrink/refresh?

[Guest lilbman]

7 hours ago, Shiv78 said:

Isn't Pascal just a Maxwell die shrink/refresh?

I know the die is smaller, but I'm not sure that it's a refresh.  If it was just a refresh, it wouldn't be as large as a difference in performance as it is. Don't quote me on any of this, though.

[SlaughterSmurf]

On 15/08/2017 at 11:35 AM, Aelar_Nailo said:

So my stopgap card, an hd 6870 died last month. I at this point will probably purchase a gtx 1060 very soon, as I miss playing games, and intel 530 does not cut it for anything<5 years old. But, do we have a date for volta? I don't want to buy a card that will be a waste of money in a month, but do we know when it will launch? Thanks..

Sorry that this rambled, I am fried right now.

Aelar Nailo

If I had to guess.... 8 months? Definitely not before the end of the year.

[FakeNSA]

1 hour ago, SlaughterSmurf said:

If I had to guess.... 8 months? Definitely not before the end of the year.

Thanks! Also, crudbaskets. Well, that's being an enthusiast I suppose!

[Damascus]

On 8/15/2017 at 9:00 PM, Deedot78 said:

NO compelling competition from AMD,  NO need.  Just like intel pre  Ryzen. 

I doubt Nvidia thinks of it this way but this is actually a godsend to AMD right now.  If the 2080 dropped next month and obliterated everything on the market VEGA would shrivel up and die and NAVI would never in a million years be competitive.  This pause is letting amd catch up in terms of release cycles.

[Deedot78]

16 minutes ago, Damascus said:

I doubt Nvidia thinks of it this way but this is actually a godsend to AMD right now.  If the 2080 dropped next month and obliterated everything on the market VEGA would shrivel up and die and NAVI would never in a million years be competitive.  This pause is letting amd catch up in terms of release cycles.

AMD is very important on two fronts, that i think most people dont realize.  They are the only thing preventing monopolies in consumer cpus and gpus. They fold up,  we are all screwed. So intel and nvidia do have an interest in the survivial of AMD, so i will always root for their survival, but this vega launch is a debacle.  Year too late, still using over hyped/expensive memory, and under performing year old competition. 

[StormEye]

5 minutes ago, Deedot78 said:

Year to late, still using over hyped/expensive memory, and under performing year old competition. 

And they had balls to use Poor Volta

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, StormEye said:

And they had balls to use Poor Volta

 

7 minutes ago, Deedot78 said:

-snip-

What you guys are forgetting is the most overlooked aspect of high end PCS - their ability to serve as space heaters!  NASA in the space station, our Russian comrades will buy them in droves and don't forget those poor sods in Alaska and the territories

 

After all, if you can get the heat output of a 1080 ti for 1080 prices why not?!?!??!?! 

 

/s