Monday, April 11th 2016
First NVIDIA "Pascal" Graphics Cards to be Unveiled at Computex 2016
Some of the first consumer graphics cards based on NVIDIA's next-generation "Pascal" architecture, could debut at Computex 2016 (late-May thru early-June), with mass shipments some time in July, 2016, according to Taiwan-based industry observer DigiTimes. NVIDIA plans to unveil the "GeForce GTX 1080" and "GTX 1070" through its add-in card (AIC) partners, with Taiwan-based companies such as ASUS, MSI, and GIGABYTE, planning to showcase their graphics cards at the event.
It looks like the company could allow non-reference board designs at launch, although pictures of reference-design cooler shrouds, allegedly from an aluminium CNC mill, have been making rounds on the web. Along with AMD's "Polaris," NVIDIA "Pascal" is the first GPU architecture to launch post-Windows 10, and the DirectX 12 API it introduced.
Sources:
DigiTimes, VideoCardz
It looks like the company could allow non-reference board designs at launch, although pictures of reference-design cooler shrouds, allegedly from an aluminium CNC mill, have been making rounds on the web. Along with AMD's "Polaris," NVIDIA "Pascal" is the first GPU architecture to launch post-Windows 10, and the DirectX 12 API it introduced.
26 Comments on First NVIDIA "Pascal" Graphics Cards to be Unveiled at Computex 2016
I know its a small rather insignificant detail but eh, so boring.
At least the article implies there will be custom coolers from partners at launch, so why should Nvidia redesign something that works?
And dont act like this look is inherently bound to the performance, one can easily get the same performance out of a different looking cooler, its just the outer shell.
And again, to repeat myself, its rather insignificant but it is booooring.
You could do the same for cars as well, hell for almost anything, make it look the same always and just fix/update whats underneath.
But, we dont.
VW went well for quite a while with a basic design.
Having said that, I have some interest in buying a GTX1080 or GTX1070 but if the price is right on a GTX980 or GTX970 after the release of the new cards then I might go for one of the older cards.
I do care what is under the hood but to be honest I really don't care all that much about what the card looks like.
Not even going to argue here, but get behind the wheel of a 911 997 manual Turbo (a car I've actually OWNED) and tell me it's boring. Jeez, you've never been born my friend!
As for this info, I can't wait to see what is revealed.
also for SLI Setups is pretty useful, AMD uses something pretty similar, another blower based cooler... dont know why people criticizes Nvidia's one ...