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At this point, Nvidia has surely reached the end of the Pascal life-cycle with no additional launches planned. While many of us were expecting Volta to feature in the next generation of GeForce graphics cards, a report back in November said otherwise, claiming that ‘Ampere' would be Nvidia's next generation architecture for gaming GPUs. Now, rumors around Ampere are starting to pick up pace, with a report claiming that we'll see the first Ampere graphics cards in April.
According to sources speaking with the German website 3DCenter, Nvidia will apparently replace the GP102 chip this year with the GA104 GPU, the first of the Ampere generation. The crux of the rumor is that we'll see Ampere at either GDC in mid-March or GTC in late March, followed by a proper release in April, almost two years after Pascal first debuted on the market.
The rumored release schedule is GA104 for the GTX 2080 and 2070 in April, followed by the GA106 for the GTX 2060 in the Summer. Then at some point in early 2019, the GA102 will surface for a new Titan card and/or the GTX 20180Ti.
In case you weren't keeping count of the number of times the word ‘rumor' is mentioned in this article, none of this information is confirmed. We also don't have a clear, reputable source backing up this information, just whispers coming out of Germany, so don't jump on the hype train just yet.
KitGuru Says: Buying a graphics card for gaming is harder than ever at the moment, particularly with retailers starting to sell GPUs in six-pack bundles for miners. Hopefully some fresh launches later this year will help return things to normal. The rumor is April, so if that turns out to be true, we will hopefully see some proper leaks in the weeks to come.
This is the time i need to sell my kidneys!!
Heise.de makes a claim with no source saying next architecture will be called Ampere, with not even a whisper of a leak to back up the claims, nor any other news outlet making this claim without referencing Heise.
3DCenter claims with no source that Ampere is coming out April 12th, still not a single leak from anywhere even so much as mentioning a single fact about the next generation of gaming GPU’s, despite supposed release being just a couple of months away.
Germany must be getting really good at chatting shit.
Yup, they’re over-rated 😀
Only time will tell, but I think it’s too early to call bluff.
i sure titan v was send to games developers for new games optionaly constructed for cards like this, and same as far cry 4 was out with gtx 980 in same period, far cry 5 will out after new nvidia cards with extra settings yet for new cards, just intuitively, 27 march is date of gtc and fc5 out, so i think at gdc, befor gtc we will know exactly what know nvidia guys about date of birth new gpu, and at gtc will know what kind of cool this gpu
Gamers will need to buy quickly as soon as the miners realize they provide better performance the price will rocket 🙁
Lambo or no dice.
Only just got my gtx 1070ti that overclocked is so good for 1440p Nvidia still don’t have to do much at this point hops amd bring out a card that makes Nvidia step up again
LMAO
Yeah, miners are pissing me off. I’m in the middle of trying to build a 4K gaming rig, and cards are either over priced or totally out of stock. My coworker at work is part of the bitcoin craze too, and i frankly don’t see the point in it. I just want to play some games. :/
Here’s what I think and I do hope I’m wrong, I don’t believe Ampere is real at all, it’s just the press reporting on each others own stories like an echo chamber.
We haven’t seen a single reference to Ampere on anything official from nVidia, no roadmaps, nothing vaguely legitimate leaked, absolutely nothing. I don’t believe I have seen anything ‘big’ get released in resent years that hasn’t been leaked the hell out of. I sadly think the most realistic likelihood is that Ampere is a poor translation back and forth of Volta.
I also think Nvidia will have stopped production of the GP102 simply because they have tens of thousands in their inventory awaiting RAM. They don’t need to make anymore for a good while. These chips are not the reason we don’t have normally prices cards in stock atm.
That’s not to say I don’t think new cards aren’t coming but I firstly think they will simply be Volta based, secondly I don’t think Nvidia will be in any kind of a rush as they can’t keep up with demand for Pascal so why switch to a presumably riskier yield Volta chip and thirdly I believe we are going to be pretty disappointed with the performance jump from Pascal to Volta. When you look at clock for clock, core to core performance of the V100 it isn’t that impressive at all. The V100 is a monster chip at an insane price but the $500-1000 cards simply won’t be anywhere near this big as Nvidia just can’t make them for that price.
Anyway, this is just my opinion and like I said I really do hope I’m completely wrong and Nvidia releases some spectacular cards in April based on Ampere that blows Pascal out of the water.
Until AMD comes out with a card with more than just 8GBs of VRAM, then AMD will always be following the leader. If you get into VR, then you want that extra 3GBs of VRAM the 1080Ti gives, or the 16GBs the next Nvidia cards will have. The more SuperSampling applied, the more VRAM used.
Its coming.I called the Nvidia distributor to buy a 1070ti.He said that Pascal Products are marked as EOL(End of life) and I should wait two more months if I could.There is a Rumor that Next X70 series will have the performance better than Titan XP and X80 will be 30-60% better than Titan XP
Well i hope you’re right and it’s not like we can buy much at the moment anyway so don’t have much choice to wait. Time will tell.
He is right, it was reported days ago that Pascal are at EOL and production of them is ceasing. NVidia is 100% releasing a new card soon, we just don’t know for sure what the family name will be
I hope so and I also hope they can magic up some RAM from somewhere to make these cards available to buy.