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We may have only just got our first batch of Pascal graphics cards over the last couple of months but that isn't slowing the rumour mill down at all, with attention now turning to Nvidia's Volta architecture. According to reports this week, the first Volta graphics cards may end up launching in 2017, a year earlier than expected.
Right now, the official Nvidia GPU roadmap puts Volta's release in 2018. However, we recently heard a rumour that Volta would not be a 10nm GPU, but would instead stick to the 16nm FinFET process, which is currently used for Pascal. According to wccftech, we have yet to see a gaming GPU that makes the most of the 16nm node, even next month's Titan X is based on a smaller die, so Nvidia could build bigger chips for consumers based on 16nm technology to get the most out of it.
We have already seen Nvidia speed things up a bit, with the GTX 1060 launching just a month after the GTX 1080 hit store shelves. On top of that, the Pascal-based Titan X was announced sooner than expected, with a surprise reveal made last week.
The final rumour doing the rounds in these reports is that we may see the first Volta GPU at Nvidia's annual Graphics Technology Conference in May next year. Right now, we don't have any official information to point towards this being true but it will be interesting to see if Nvidia's internal GPU roadmap has changed.
KitGuru Says: If Nvidia can squeeze more out of 16nm, then it makes sense to do so while we wait for 10nm to come to fruition. However, we don't have much information to go off right now outside of some rumours and speculation. Perhaps things will become clearer closer to the time.
Did anyone really expect 10Nm to be out next year?
I didn’t
Fcking 16nm has yet to mature, and people expect 10nm? Wth.
Yea I was kind of wondering that as well we just got 16mm & 14mm and some actually thought 10mm would be released this soon. To anyone that thinks that I happened to find your pixie dust on the ground over here please do not snort any more of it…thanks.
The purpose of 10nm is still questionable to me. Seems like a pretty pointless node considering 16nm is maturing and 7nm is in the works with like a 2018 expected date.
Considering what we’ve been waiting for since Maxwell has been part Pascal, part Volta, and they’re rushing Pascal out I may as well just say fuck it and wait one more year for Volta, given that the leaks are correct.
The fact that NV is doing this, tells me 10nm and 7nm are probably going to get massively delayed, and that the current 14nm option from GF and TSMC isn’t much of an improvement over 16nm as well as costing too much.
So get used to 16nm, it’s gona be with us for a long time. Hopefully not as long as 28nm stuck with us! Eww!
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Wtf…volta?? I need to google this.
If this happens to be true then it becomes very obvious that Nvidia has moved to something like tick-tock-tack .
Pascal is Maxwell( 28nm) in 14nm. ( tick )
Volta will stay in 14nm but with an new architecture ( As Nvidia claims Volta will be build on high parralel computing ) to really take advantage of DX12/Vulkan . (tock )
After that when 14nm becomes mature they can realease Volta gpu’s but on bigger chips as a refresh . ( tack )
This way Nvidia can occupy the market with 14nm based Gpu’s till end of 2018 and release at the same time one new gpu per year . Then they can do the same thing again with 10nm or 7nm depending on availability .
think pascal will go by keplers way 6xx-7xx, so 2017 reworked pascal, 2018 volta