Thursday, March 1st 2018
Report: NVIDIA Not Unveiling 2018 Graphics Card Lineup at GDC, GTC After All
It's being reported by Tom's Hardware, citing industry sources, that NVIDIA isn't looking to expand upon its graphics cards lineup at this years' GDC (Game Developers Conference) or GTC (GPU Technology Conference). Even as reports have been hitting the streets that pointed towards NVIDIA announcing (if not launching) their two new product architectures as early as next month, it now seems that won't be the case after all. As a reminder, the architectures we're writing about here are Turing, reportedly for crypto-mining applications, and Ampere, the expected GeForce architecture leapfrogging the current top of the line - and absent from regular consumer shores - Volta.
There's really not much that can be gleaned as of now from industry sources, though. It's clear no one has received any kind of information from NVIDIA when it comes to either of their expected architectures, which means an impending announcement isn't likely. At the same time, NVIDIA really has no interest in pulling the trigger on new products - demand is fine, and competition from AMD is low. As such, reports of a June or later announcement/release are outstandingly credible, as are reports that NVIDIA would put the brakes on a consumer version of Ampere, use it to replace Volta on the professional and server segment, and instead launch Volta - finally - on the consumer segment. This would allow the company to cache in on their Volta architecture, this time on consumer products, for a full generation longer, while innovating the market - of sorts. All scenarios are open right now; but one thing that seems clear is that there will be no announcements next month.
Source:
Tom's Hardware
There's really not much that can be gleaned as of now from industry sources, though. It's clear no one has received any kind of information from NVIDIA when it comes to either of their expected architectures, which means an impending announcement isn't likely. At the same time, NVIDIA really has no interest in pulling the trigger on new products - demand is fine, and competition from AMD is low. As such, reports of a June or later announcement/release are outstandingly credible, as are reports that NVIDIA would put the brakes on a consumer version of Ampere, use it to replace Volta on the professional and server segment, and instead launch Volta - finally - on the consumer segment. This would allow the company to cache in on their Volta architecture, this time on consumer products, for a full generation longer, while innovating the market - of sorts. All scenarios are open right now; but one thing that seems clear is that there will be no announcements next month.
88 Comments on Report: NVIDIA Not Unveiling 2018 Graphics Card Lineup at GDC, GTC After All
Nvidia is dominating the PC gaming space right now. AMD has no real competition, not even early speculation on NAVI is available, and AMDs GPU division was left is a bit of turmoil after raja left.
Are they making money now? yes, but not nearly as much as nvidia, and AMD has higher costs as well. We have seen 0 indication that AMD would have a competitive GPU on the horizon anytime soon.
current gamers really should not give a sh-t.. they will not be able to afford any new stuff that comes out anyway..
as for miners i recon they are probably happy with what they already have and are not eagerly waiting for a new hardware release..
trog
Like I usually want ROI within 2-3 months of building a rig, and with the current difficulty almost no card Nvidia would be likely to launch would be worth it. My math shows a $750 card from Nvidia would have to be capable of a crazy 80 MH/s to pay for itself in even 4 months lol. I don't see that happening...
Both sources of the rumors claimed insider sources right? Click bait season?
work it out... £6000 quid just for the cards.. no way would i buy into mining in the current situation.. it really is not worth the hardware cost..
trog
Another probable reason Nvidia isn't interested in a new release... the new gen doesn't improve on Hash/$ and AIB's aren't about to be saying give us that! A) GDDR6X is still in a shortage, while B) they'd have to make new PCB's designs, tools, cooler designs, box's, marketing... For what! They're selling everything for twice what they use to get! Heck I wouldn't be surprise AIB's aren't saying we'll give you more per Pascal GPU's just don't upset the apple cart.
Yeah I want to phase out my 28nm mining cards, but it almost seems unlikely unless some Hail Marry card comes from AMD this year. Like a $350 12nm GDDR6 RX 680 that can do 35-40 MH/s or 7nm Vega capable of 60 MH/s would be nice. But meh I am not seeing the rumors lol
Turns out it really wasn't that great, but it has found a home down the mines at least.