Nvidia Pascal Titan Rumored to be coming as early as April

[WYP]

Nvidia's upcoming Pascal GPUs are now rumored to be coming to market as early as April, starting off with a Pascal Titan with lower end models coming later.

Read more on these Nvidia Pascal rumors.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

It makes sense for them to do it this way, far more than it did when they released the Titan back in early 2013 before the 770, 780 and 780ti.

I imagine this new GM100 Titan will have 16GB of HBM, the 1080ti will have 8GB of HBM, and the 1080 and 1070 will have 6GB or 8GB of GDDR5X.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Hard to imagine this. TSMC hasnt begin volume production of its 2nd gen 16nm nodes which is better suited for high performance computing(GPUs). That means Nvidia will probably be using the first gen 16nm node. Wonder what implications that will have for a Titan.

 

[semitope]

Hard to imagine this. TSMC hasnt begin volume production of its 2nd gen 16nm nodes which is better suited for high performance computing(GPUs). That means Nvidia will probably be using the first gen 16nm node. Wonder what implications that will have for a Titan.

volume doesn't matter for a product like that. Just launch it at $3000. Everybody thinks nvidia is awesome while the card is out of stock, then release a 600 ti card thats faster later when they can make more.

 

[NeverBackDown]

volume doesn't matter for a product like that. Just launch it at $3000. Everybody thinks nvidia is awesome while the card is out of stock, then release a 600 ti card thats faster later when they can make more.

Volume and yields do matter. If you have bad yields, you get bad volume and the chips that come out are only avg. Other way around could just have Hugh volume but if yields are low it won't wow anyone with the OC'ing potential or power consumption

Edit: Forgot to mention, it will only have 16GB HBM2 at max. 32GB(using the 8Gb chips at 8hi) won't start production until late this year.. so that rumor is debunked

 

[Kushiro]

Titan PB

 

[Porxster]

Rumors...Meh!
Maybe 16GB HBM 2.0 should be enough for VR....
Over kill for 1080p...unless for 6/8/12 monitors set up lol!
DDR5X will give lower end cards an even bigger perf leap on previous gen GPU's

 

[MiNo]

"The GTX 1080 is expected to have performance that is similar to the GTX 980Ti"

Then why bother . I mean, it's nice to spend less Watts - but if that is the ONLY thing a new flagship card brings to the table then I got one word for it :

Meh.

 

[AngryGoldfish]

"The GTX 1080 is expected to have performance that is similar to the GTX 980Ti"

Then why bother . I mean, it's nice to spend less Watts - but if that is the ONLY thing a new flagship card brings to the table then I got one word for it :

Meh.

A 980ti at 970 power consumption and temperature levels is a very exciting prospect. That's stellar 1440p performance for $500 at 60-70° and low fan speeds. The only real drawback to the 980ti was the high temperatures. Imagine SLI 980ti performance on air with less heat using a 750W PSU for $1000. Yes, please.

 

[xnax2802]

A 980ti at 970 power consumption and temperature levels is a very exciting prospect. That's stellar 1440p performance for $500 at 60-70° and low fan speeds. The only real drawback to the 980ti was the high temperatures. Imagine SLI 980ti performance on air with less heat using a 750W PSU for $1000. Yes, please.

Also, if they follow their past releasing scheme, this is going to be one step below the flagship model (without counting the possible Titan).

 

[jimma47]

"The GTX 1080 is expected to have performance that is similar to the GTX 980Ti"

Then why bother . I mean, it's nice to spend less Watts - but if that is the ONLY thing a new flagship card brings to the table then I got one word for it :

Meh.

If you look at the recent history most Top tier cards went on to be rebadged as 2nd tier for the next generation with a couple of minor tweaks.

580 -> 670, 680 ->770 etc.

Any gains in performance are welcome. And yes that includes efficiency and heat.
Less volts and less heat generation at stock generally equals more headroom for an overclock as well.

It's like complaining that the new GTi only has the same power as the last gen Golf R. I'd still take it because same performance and less dollars.

 

[JR23]

It would be nice to see them smash out a dual GPU card first, at a stupid price, just because ITX madness.

To me at least it doesn't feel like the 980Ti has been around long enough, the 980 has just been stupid in price/performance terms for it's entire lifespan. I would of thought there is room for a maxwell refresh product line just like fermi and kepler where the Ti takes the 80 position, a 90 is added and something else insane takes the Titan X position. Exactly like the move from 6 > 7 series. Suppose that would be less exciting if your a news whore but the refreshed lines recently have been far better products than the originals. I'm just not convinced we've seen a truly good maxwell card that's been as aggressively priced as it could be just yet so i'm really not bothered about being excited for pascal yet.

JR

 

[MiNo]

If the fist Pascal card performs as a 980ti - but with less watts/heat/noise then please do not assume it will be cheaper.

It will still be the top card but with improvements.

No reason for Nvidia to lower prices. So it will be 660-700$. At least.

Lastly : Cars hardly needs to go faster. Graphics card do

 

[Doomslayer]

I have a bad feeling when it comes to pricing when they come out, Can't see them being any cheaper to what the pricing is for the 900 series cards.

IMO when they come out they will be at the same price as the 900 series cards if not higher.

 

[jimma47]

Lastly : Cars hardly needs to go faster. Graphics card do

Blasphemy

Yeah I imagine it will be around the current price structure. Super expensive Titan then a costly (but cheap compared to Titan) 980 equivalent and a full fat Ti later on.

Current 980s were overpriced but I picked one up as the 970s were out of stock. Glad I did but in reality for the extra money you don't get a whole lot of extra performance.

I'm looking towards Polaris for my next GPU as long as AMD are in the same ballpark as Pascal. Won't be for a year or two so time to see how they play out.

 

[Dicehunter]

"The GTX 1080 is expected to have performance that is similar to the GTX 980Ti"

Then why bother . I mean, it's nice to spend less Watts - but if that is the ONLY thing a new flagship card brings to the table then I got one word for it :

Meh.

It will be like the first Maxwell cards i.e 970 and 980, Not worth upgrading from a 780 Ti.

We'll probably have to wait for the 1080 Ti for an actual upgrade from the 980 Ti.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

hyey guys what about that nvlink that he had talked about. was it not a new spec slot. does this mean that there will be a new slot on motherboards or has the card been designed for 3.0 the whole time and nvlink is future tech or something for their car projects. im a little confused about the thing/

 

[Dicehunter]

hyey guys what about that nvlink that he had talked about. was it not a new spec slot. does this mean that there will be a new slot on motherboards or has the card been designed for 3.0 the whole time and nvlink is future tech or something for their car projects. im a little confused about the thing/

Nvlink is more for the server and super computer side of things, Doubt we'll actually be seeing it on store shelves for a few years yet.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

Nvlink is more for the server and super computer side of things, Doubt we'll actually be seeing it on store shelves for a few years yet.

Thank goodness. Reminds me of the old agp days. Shudders. One form factor for me thank you very much

 

[Dicehunter]

Thank goodness. Reminds me of the old agp days. Shudders. One form factor for me thank you very much

Considering there is only a minor performance loss if you put a PCI-E 3.0 card into a 2.0 slot we still really aren't saturating PCI-E 3.0 anywhere near it's capacity so Nvlink IMO is a good ways off yet for general consumers.