It is possible that NVIDIA changes the nomenclatures of these graphics cards a lot, going to be called GTX 1175 and GTX 1185, although for now, everything is based on rumors.
The presentation of Raytracing technology during the GDC 2018 has generated a lot of expectation. This technology for tracing light rays in real time has a great technical drawback and that is that at the moment it only works with the NVIDIA Volta, since they are the only ones that implement the Tensor Cores. The big question at the moment is if NVIDIA will launch graphics shortly and as reported from TweakTown, the new NVIDIA graphics will finally not be called GTX 20 Series, but will be GTX 11 Series.
At least this is what different people from within the industry have commented to this medium. What's more, this source that quotes this medium explains that they have been told that 'they won't necessarily end in' 70 'and' 80 'as we are used to. It seems that the next generation of graphics cards could break with the nomenclature we are used to.
According to the media, this could mean that the new graphics cards receive the name of GTX 1185 and GTX 1175, which would serve to differentiate them from current graphics cards, but we do not know why, since in theory they will be based on a new family of silicon, which could be called Ampere, Pascal or Volta, something that is not entirely clear.
I must say that I do not understand this change of name, but it is possible that in the presentation of the GDC 2018, where Jen-Hsun Huang spoke, but it is possible that we will not see new graphics cards, although who knows if in the end, the pisto will be thrown CEO of NVIDIA and will show us new graphics cards. It doesn't seem possible, as there have been no benchmark leaks or reliable features.
For my taste, the spare 5 seems to be about halfway there. As if instead of calling the Pascal 1070 1070Ti 1080, they called the Ti GTX 1075 ...
I wouldn’t base the performance on the nomenclature of a card, but maybe Nvidia is saving the 2000 series for a later generation… Although yes, they give the impression that it won’t be a drastic change with respect to the current ones (cooler, higher frequency, etc…). At least I hope that “GTX 1175” performs the same or better than a GTX 1080 and that a hypothetical GTX 1165 performs like a GTX 1070/1070 Ti hahahaha
I'm afraid that changing the nomenclature of the graphics cards could be an indication that they will be focused for other purposes than gaming? I really hope it's not like that