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.