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
the real problem is most of the stuff would be miners read on the internet is out date.. to them mining seems more profitable than it really is.. back last year i got fooled this way..
i think gpus have reached a maximum price but it takes a while for this to filter into the system.. which kind of means things aint gonna get worse but it will be a fair while before they get better...
dont get me wrong here.. if eth for example suddenly doubles in price my mining profits would go up.. to be honest its all a bit of an unknown.. but as things are.. small time mining isnt profitable enough to justify the cost of the hardware..
large scale mining is only just profitable and that has to be in the right circumstances.. iceland for example..
trog
I would reply as if your post were real but it just can't be.
but looks like I have to stick to my GTX 970 to play 1080p pc gaming for a while.. or maybe even for the rest of my life... since GPU manufacturer like Nvidia seems don't have passion anymore to produce new gaming card. nowadays, they focus on Deep Learning, AI, Self-Driving Car, etc..
and even if Nvidia/AMD release new consumer GPU for gaming, miners will buy that all and will left gamer with scarce and ridiculous priced GPU...
don't see any good sign of better gaming in the foreseeable future :(
I just hope my 970 can lived for a long-long time...
Reason: as soon as that goal is reached, hardware is eclipsed by newer games. They will always have a number of newer games which go beyond what is capable at the time to portray it.
Sorry thats not how business works. If I only stuck to selling clothes on ebay, and that I know that clothes have a very high return rate and high chances of negative feedback, I wouldnt still be in business today. Instead I branched out into new items to sell like movies and computer parts.
He estimated a 40 TFLOP gpu could run a simpler single player game with fully photorealistic graphics! Problem? If you have 40 TFLOPs of computing power.... why the f*** would you use that horsepower to run a game?!
The sad reality is that PC gamers are going to have to get used to these prices. I think they will definately get better in 2019, but never again should we expect a top of the line card for $550, or even $750. Those will be $1500 from this point forward...
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even if they release the 2080/20XX gtx cards...
they have no point in pricing it below $699 ...when the older gen 1080 & 1080 ti are selling above $1k..
the only reason to release a card for nvidia may be is when AMD releases Navi Gpu in 2019...
till then...i think Nvidia can wait & hunt the prey..
i think its not dying anytime soon & will run for years...
so no Gpu till that?
Frankly I can imagine paying $1000 for a card, even though I have always tried to stay at $600 tops. All depends on performance. 1080Ti +40-% performance at $1000 - sure, I'd buy that.
It seems this would be the best time to do that.