NVIDIA could delay the graphics based on NVIDIA Volta, betting for now on a rehash of the NVIDIA Pascal, improving the manufacturing process and improving energy efficiency.
Along with the arrival of the AMD RX Vega architecture for gaming, the other great architecture expected in the coming weeks or months is the NVIDIA Volta, the company's new graphics architecture that promises to be a new leap in terms of power, performance and electrical consumption. We don't know much about this architecture, but recent rumors claim that it could hit the market earlier than expected, putting it in direct competition with the new AMD graphics cards, which hit the market at the end of September this year (some rumors point to the end of August).
It will not be a revolutionary leap, but it will be an increase in power with respect to the previous architecture. Volta could be focused on Tensor Cores, cores specifically designed for artificial intelligence, which would allow these graphics cards to be a great solution for that market, in which NVIDIA has been working intensively for quite some time. This is sparking rumors that NVIDIA may be considering relegating Volta-based gaming graphics to the future, focusing on other fields.
Rumors have appeared that the next graphics cards for the gaming market would be an evolution of Pascal developed in a TSMC 12nm manufacturing process, which would improve the aspect of energy efficiency and improve performance, thus being an even more solution. attractive. This opens the door to a greater number of CUDA Cores than the GP102 GPU would have, this is because the improvement and reduction of the manufacturing process allows the integration of more transistors in the same space. Probably the 12nm Pascals will use GDDR5X and some advanced models will use GDDR6, but no HBM2 at the moment.
This would be a new twist in NVIDIA's strategy, because it sees that the AI and other professional sectors are more succulent and because they would have data that with a Pascal refinement would continue to dominate the market without problems. The AMD RX Vega, the truth is that it seems that they never finish arriving and we have been with the song for almost a year and when we thought they were going to be presented, it was delayed again and again.
Source: fudzilla
Nvidia: “opting” for a rehash… Oh but with the rx500: they can’t handle Vega, “forced” to rehash
Normal ... seeing the Vega panorama, they will have said that it is better to leave it in the drawer, to see if the reds wake up.
Thanks for warning, one more reason not to waste money on nvidia, if the little advance in software that there is is not enough.
Sure, better go to waste money on obsolete hardware, refried that does not improve performance and consume more and 'the heat of AMD'. Should we remember that the AMD RX 580, which competes in performance with the GTX 1060, consumes almost the same as the GTX 1080?
Better not throw anything away and in my case, stick with a 980ti. I imagine that there are several cases like with a gtx 970 that would not have any need to change to a rehash that they take out just to get more money from something already obsolete.
As many suddenly forget that most have HW powerful enough to solve current needs and that new generations are not always worth the investment (or waste the money).
Tales of the milkmaid.