Nvidia Rumour: GTX 2080 & 2070 using Ampere (GA104) and will launch in April, GP102 is EOL

[Shreyas1]

Why would they do that? The Nvidia I know would delay the launch until right before Navi, and make money with pascal until then

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, elago said:

The GA104. Gamers don't even get their second biggest chip in the x80 card, and they can save the GA102 for the x80ti. That's how far ahead of AMD they are that they can sell mid range chips at high end prices.

Um this has always been the case at least for the last generation or so.

[jasonvp]

3 minutes ago, Name Taken said:

1000 series was announced in May 2016 then released in August so the 2000 series being unveiling in March then released in April seems suspect.

I seem to recall the first Pascal cards were available right after the announcement in 2016; meaning late Spring.  At least directly through NVidia.

[jasonvp]

3 minutes ago, Name Taken said:

May 6, 2016 - Unveil - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/geforce-gtx-1080/

Guess my memory is broken (sucks to get old).  I could have sworn I ordered my two Titan X Pascals directly from them in May of 2016.  I guess it wasn't May but later in the summer.

 

I repeat: it sucks to get old.

[jasonvp]

12 minutes ago, Name Taken said:

Titan cards usually comes out before gaming cards. The Titan V was unveiled and immediately available for order last December.

Nah, I looked after you posted your links.  And it appears the Titans did ship in August.

[Tech Enthusiast]

2 hours ago, BuckGup said:

Nvidia will probably bump prices up $50 again so we will see $700-$750 ti variants and probably $1,499 Titans.

 

I am fine with that if the performance gap to the other team is as big as i expect.

Hard to argue with prices if there is no competition. And honestly i don't care about the price (much) if it serves me well and i am happy for years.

[RotoCoreOne]

If true i have $2k saved up. Heh lets see how much more it now costs

[SteveGrabowski0]

Is 3Dcenter.org a reasonable source? Or is it the German WCCF?

[Valentyn]

I might finally upgrade from my launch day 980Ti.

[DocSwag]

4 hours ago, DildorTheDecent said:

I'd recommend the 1440p UW. They're top tier

Only problem is they're so damn expensive. The cheapest g sync ones are like $800

[Sniperfox47]

My biggest question at the end of this is... Why do people still think Volta would be coming out for gamers? It offers no benefit for gaming workloads...

 

Volta is done. It's out as much as it's going to be. A bunch of Quadros and a kinda-semi-prosumer-ish Titan. That's all.

 

I'm interested to see what Ampere will bring. I expect it to be either incredibly interesting or incredibly boring based on the fact that there's been no leaks or information on it so far.

[AdmiralMeowmix]

I'm hoping Ampere will be a good massive step up but that is only hope </3 let's also hope intel and amd have a new architecture releasing soon as well, it'd be nice to upgrade from my current gen 1080 ti and ryzen 1700x to something even better. But if the upgrade performance is minimal then I wouldn't bother at all.

[Beskamir]

20 hours ago, Abdul201588 said:

If the rumors are true, please make sure they can't be used for mining! 

 

 

EDIT: ALL GPUs make sure they can't be used for mining!

Please explain how you'd know a card's being used for mining as opposed to ray tracing, rendering, gameplay, scientific computation, fluid simulations, compute shaders, etc?

[SteveGrabowski0]

On 2/9/2018 at 10:13 AM, Name Taken said:

May 6, 2016 - Unveil - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/geforce-gtx-1080/
July 20, 2016 - Founders Editions Review - https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review
August 1, 2016 - AIB Review - http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-geforce-gtx-1080-strix-oc-11-gbps-review,1.html

The 1080 came out in late May, a month before the 1070.

[Matt_Lefebvre]

On 2/9/2018 at 11:13 AM, Name Taken said:

May 6, 2016 - Unveil - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/05/06/geforce-gtx-1080/
July 20, 2016 - Founders Editions Review - https://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review
August 1, 2016 - AIB Review - http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/asus-geforce-gtx-1080-strix-oc-11-gbps-review,1.html

Also, key to note that AIB cards don't count as a launch. Once reference boards with new silica hit retail - the card has launched.

So May release, July Launch.

 

And while this release cycle is a bit shorter - it makes sense for ROI, as margins and profitability are at an all time high right now with prices where they are. The sooner you get the cards out, the more money you'll make. An earlier then planned release is just a savvy business decision - and a simple one at that.

[Apepa]

On 09/02/2018 at 1:25 PM, Almostbauws said:

Isn't it supposed to be called gtx 1180 and 1170 or am i missing something?

You mean like the GTX 8xx series or Windows 9?

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, Apepa said:

You mean like the GTX 8xx series or Windows 9?

GTX 800 series does exist, it was mobile only.

[Apepa]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

GTX 800 series does exist, it was mobile only.

[Master Disaster]

2 minutes ago, Apepa said:

Not really, your evidence for Nvidia possibly skipping an entire 100 series of GPUs was because they've already skipped a series previously.

 

I pointed out that the series you claimed they skipped does actually exist.

 

I got your point perfectly fine, it was that your point was wrong.

[ZestyJalapeno]

Really good news, I'm in the market to upgrade my laptop, hopefully we see Ryzen and Ampere combos on some medium sized laptops.

[Brooksie359]

9 hours ago, Dogeystyle said:

Really good news, I'm in the market to upgrade my laptop, hopefully we see Ryzen and Ampere combos on some medium sized laptops.

I doubt that will ever happen. I mean the whole reason amd and Intel are working together for laptop soc like the Intel cpu Vega combo is to cut out nvidia.

[AlTech]

The acrynom EOL means End of Life. GP102 is not End of Life.

 

Your title is thus misleading.

[Murasaki]

miner bait

[porina]

10 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

The acrynom EOL means End of Life. GP102 is not End of Life.

 

Your title is thus misleading.

It's a rumour so how is it misleading? It is not presented as a definitive statement of fact.

 

Note even if it is EOL, that doesn't mean products wont keep being made for some time, depending on how much component inventory there is built up in the system. It is not unusual for them to turn off the tap if someone new is not far off coming to replace it.

[Cookybiscuit]

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I'll be collecting those apologies now.