Nvidia rumored to release their GTX 1080 GPU in May

[demonking]

I might be blind here but where does it say it on the picture because I have zoomed in on it and didn't see anything?

The only time I see 980Ti, is when I try to save it and then it shows as a EVGA 980Ti SC

yeah i downloaded the image and zoomed in

 

[Doomslayer]

Do you mean what if nVidia pull an nVidia and do refresh of maxwell just like they did with Fermi and Kepler? Because personally I think that would be excellent, the 970 and 980 look quite uncompetitive at the present time and if what is the 980Ti became the 1080 at around the £400 mark I think that would be excellent. The 5XX and 7XX series high end cards were excellent, personally i'd like to see that as maxwell in it's best forms has always been on the expensive side.

JR

I wouldn't get my hopes about about it being at the £400 mark i could be wrong but you should know what Nvidia is like, cause they can do it they have the market share bye quite a way and they know people will still be buying there GPU's anyway.

I think with pricing there are going to come in at the 900 series pricing atm (basing on AUD pricing) there not going to be any cheaper.

 

[JR23]

I think with pricing there are going to come in at the 900 series pricing atm (basing on AUD pricing) there not going to be any cheaper.

Yeah, so about £400? That was my point. Just like previously when the 680 became the 770 at ~670 pricing, the 980Ti could potentially be refreshed to the 1080 tier which would make a lot of sense for nVidia and consumers rather than releasing an entirely new card. The 980Ti has had a really short lifespan, I can't see it disappearing in May.

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

Yeah, so about £400? That was my point. Just like previously when the 680 became the 770 at ~670 pricing, the 980Ti could potentially be refreshed to the 1080 tier which would make a lot of sense for nVidia and consumers rather than releasing an entirely new card. The 980Ti has had a really short lifespan, I can't see it disappearing in May.

JR

All i'm saying it i can't see it being cheap cause it's Nvidia

 

[SpencerUk]

Don't think nVidia will bring anything new to the cable until AMD actually is bringing a serious challenge onto the cable.

With the Fury X it's almost there, but not quite yet.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Why is everyone keep making the rumor up about GDDR5X? It won't even hit volume production until Summer. It won't have GDDR5X. If it does, expect super low quantities and not great overclocking chips do to lower yields.

Yeah the original article over at bench life neglected a fact search, and most jumped on it taking it on as fact. Oh well. GDDR5 is what I expect as well - if May is correct to begin with... I can't recall release schedules but have they ever released something in May?

As this is only GP104 and not the full fat big daddy GP100 I'll be keeping hold of my 980 Ti a while longer.

Good call! I think the interesting card will be the Ti version which we might not see until 2017. Personally, I'm saving up for a GTX 980 Ti CLASSIFIED, skipping the first Pascal iteration until its Ti part is released - unless my time of purchase coincides with the first iteration and is the better card price/performance wise.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Yeah the original article over at bench life neglected a fact search, and most jumped on it taking it on as fact. Oh well. GDDR5 is what I expect as well - if May is correct to begin with... I can't recall release schedules but have they ever released something in May?



Good call! I think the interesting card will be the Ti version which we might not see until 2017. Personally, I'm saving up for a GTX 980 Ti CLASSIFIED, skipping the first Pascal iteration until its Ti part is released - unless my time of purchase coincides with the first iteration and is the better card price/performance wise.

Yep GDDR5 and I expect summer as the earliest release date. If it was only a month away we would be having much more info and teasers being released. I'm calling BS on May

From what it looks like, Polaris will release early summer, I expect them to be out the door first. What tier card that releases first is a different matter

 

[AdmiralDonut]

If this picture is to be believed then it also won't use NVLink and will instead use the normal SLI Fingers

NVlink is not, nor was ever, designed for use in home computing and is not any kind of replacement for SLI. It was designed specifically for supercomputers.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Yep GDDR5 and I expect summer as the earliest release date. If it was only a month away we would be having much more info and teasers being released. I'm calling BS on May

From what it looks like, Polaris will release early summer, I expect them to be out the door first. What tier card that releases first is a different matter

Yep, these things always 'leak' and yet there's nothing. May could be just a paper launch/announcement. I too expect Polaris to be here first, with Nvidia playing the waiting game to see what AMD has got.

I've been declared mental for going Maxwell Ti this late in the cycle but I need performance now, not going to wait for it for ca 6 months. It will have dropped in value massively once Pascal Ti is out though.

NVlink is not, nor was ever, designed for use in home computing and is not any kind of replacement for SLI. It was designed specifically for supercomputers.

Right as rain!

 

[NeverBackDown]

Ya paper launch maybe, though still unlikely imo, doesn't seem like nvidia.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Ya paper launch maybe, though still unlikely imo, doesn't seem like nvidia.

I agree; I meant it seems more likely than an actual card come May. Though, they did do one in the past, didn't they?

 

[kc5vdj]

Also keep in mind that the DEMONSTRATED overclockability of HBM at this juncture (AMD) is so negligible as to mean that for all practical purpose, HBM can't be overclocked.

Those dissing the VRAM here seem a bit daft. The GDDR5X will outperform the AMD HBM precisely because of the unwillingness of HBM to overclock more than a couple of percentage points, IF AT ALL.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Also keep in mind that the DEMONSTRATED overclockability of HBM at this juncture (AMD) is so negligible as to mean that for all practical purpose, HBM can't be overclocked.

Those dissing the VRAM here seem a bit daft. The GDDR5X will outperform the AMD HBM precisely because of the unwillingness of HBM to overclock more than a couple of percentage points, IF AT ALL.

We weren't dissing anything. We simply said it won't have GDDR5X because that doesn't even begin volume production until Early Summer.. and that's from Micron's website. Please read the thread first.
Also you clearly fail to understand that GDDR5X at it's max theoretical speed, will still output less bandwidth than HBM1. Overclocking doesn't mean it's automatically better. Simple google search there would yield you that answer.. HBM2 is even faster and not worth a comparison. That's simple fact.. if that's daft sorry then.

Only reason why G5X will succeed is because it's cheaper than HBM, so it will appear on cards lower than enthusiast class. However that's it, everywhere else it still fails in comparison(power consumption, capacity, space!, overall bandwidth)

 

[TheF34RChannel]

I remember reading something about the author of an article having reached out to both AMD and Nvidia regarding GDDR5X and both saying they weren't really keen on it, to the point of ignoring it? Don't know how much truth there's to the story, and haven't heard anything on it since. If it were true, maybe it's because X comes a bit late in the new card's development? Although it shouldn't be too difficult to implement it at a later stage?

As for the rumoured bus width - I do hope it's at least 384 bit rather than 256 again, even nicer would be 512 but that'll be expensive :/ the more the better I say

 

[Doomslayer]

As for the rumoured bus width - I do hope it's at least 384 bit rather than 256 again, even nicer would be 512 but that'll be expensive :/ the more the better I say

I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia sticks with 256 for most of the card maybe you might see 512 but that might end up being in the Titan tho.

Just Nvidia being Nvidia again why cause they have the market share AMD is no where near close enough to make Nvidia change anything in a big way.

Same again don't buy into Hype wait until we see real world test not in house.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

I wouldn't be shocked if Nvidia sticks with 256 for most of the card maybe you might see 512 but that might end up being in the Titan tho.

Just Nvidia being Nvidia again why cause they have the market share AMD is no where near close enough to make Nvidia change anything in a big way.

Same again don't buy into Hype wait until we see real world test not in house.

I wouldn't be surprised either if they stick with a 256 bus and then maybe 384 again for the Ti and Titan parts, and maybe even their compute parts unless they'll be lucky and get a 512 bit bus. It's been a long time that we saw that bus width on a gaming part from them if I'm not mistaking.

Yeah I don't really buy into hypes; they amuse me at best. And you're right that real world tests are the ones to look out for. I think I'll take a job at Nvidia; the suspense is killing me lol

 

[SuB]

So long as we can agree to make Tom call it
"Ten Eighty Tee Eye" instead of "Ten Eighty Tie" or "One Thousand and Eighty Tie"
In his videos. (no doubt nVidia will have a say in this)

I'll be happy

in before Titan - Zeus edition card

Saying that, what can they call it? They've Done Titan, Titan X and Titan Z.. should the next one be called Titan Y?
Titany
Titan Yes
Titan GO!
Titan Ti

Place your bets!

 

[Damien c]

You forgot the Titan Black.

Not sure what they would call the new one, but it will probably be something silly.

 

[SuB]

You forgot the Titan Black.

Not sure what they would call the new one, but it will probably be something silly.

Titan Brown
Titan 12 inch
Titan Platinum
Titan Gold
Titan Titan
Titan Inception
Titan Tentacle
Titanicle
Titan 1080

Oh I wonder if they'll do what they did with xbox
Titan One

Maybe the main cards will get a rename and a number change, because 1080 never seems to make it into product names.

nVidia One GTX
nVidia X80 GTX
nVidia MLXXX
nVidia X LXXX
nVidia ML3X
nVidia L4X
nVidia 4XL (Think we're onto a winner here)

 

[Warchild]

Just don't let MSI have any input or you will end up with

Titan Godlike
Titan Extreme
Titan O.M.G OC this beast Gaming 9