Interesting --- for supercomputers / server based machine learning and artificial intelligence
 
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We know Volta is going coming to supercomputers this year. However, many of you reading this will perhaps be more interested in the gaming side of the equation. On that front NVIDIA is expected to roll out a Pascal refresh as part of a new GTX 20 family of products. There’s no official word from the company regarding this alleged Pascal refresh as of yet. Although the whispers that have been heard in the echo-chamber indicate that the company is working on a new lineup of gaming GeForce GTX graphics cards featuring faster and cheaper updated versions of its existing GTX 1000 series lineup.
The new lineup will allegedly include the infamous GTX 1080 Ti, likely under a GTX 2080 Ti or similar brand name. This particular graphics card would be based on the GP102 GPU powering the company’s flagship GeForce GTX Titan X .
In the mid-range the plan is to allegedly replace the existing GP104 based GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 cards with higher clocked variants. In addition to bringing GDDR5X memory to a GTX XX70 class card for the first time. It’s not yet clear whether a potential GTX 2070 would also feature more CUDA cores than the existing 1070. However, a clock speed bump and faster memory should be enough to create a more competitive offering than the existing GTX 1070. The GTX 1080 would also get replaced by a faster “GTX 2080” variant.

Is this the same site that said the 1080ti cards are going to be announced at CES 2017?

I just post as i find them
 
one thing to note 15 companies using TSMC 7nm will have tapeout by mid year 2017 - this news comes straight from TSMC
so add 6 month and you have retail production - that puts volta early next year for enthusiast cards - and that means short pascal refresh
all depends on GDDR6 avail
 
the longer AMD takes to bring Vega out (which is delayed again  and expected sometime midyear to fall) the longer Nvidia will wait
(Im not explaining Why the delay)
 
Nvidia HAD the 1080ti at CES but are unwilling to release unless they have competition(no Vega... no 1080ti)
and the longer AMD takes to get Vega out.... Nvidia may opt for even a shorter refresh or none at all - maybe only bringing titan black v2 and the 1080ti out only
 
either expect volta on 12nm or 7 nm

Im going to put my foot in and say REAL EARLY next year - talk jan-feb
 
I just read Two sources that Volta consumer will be Exactly 1 year from now
 
As I said Earlier Tape-outs are due out by 15 manufacturers by May this year on 7nm at TSMC
give 6 months till ful production that puts Jan/Feb
 
seeing that Vega is not due til May/jun/july/ or later Nvidia may well be delay any refresh or the 1080ti ..... period
and you may wind up with a short 4-5 month refresh of the 1080ti and a titan V2 black
just enough to stay king of the hill so AMD does not gain market share
 
And I think Nvidia may well do that
 
the projections im seeing for Volta performance lends me to believe Nvidia is not worried about vega or navi and that when Volta comes out it should basically blast them into oblivian
- double barrel style
 
at 7nm we have 3x the gates -at 65% of the previous power use and TSMC refinements has led to improved performance of both 16nm and 7nm by 20% with 10% less power usage
 
that would be 3.6x at 55% the power envelope - if you keep the same power you may be well looking at a Radeon killer
 
 
Gv100 may well be on 12 nm (due to time constraints and summit)and the game/consumer on 7nm
 
they can handle a bit larger die on the server card due to the ram being HBM2 and on chip and save board space(no ram)
so they could do 12nm on server side as a stop gap and bring out 7nm consumer with GDDR6 in 2018

gridironcpj
Volta isn't coming to the consumer market (gaming GPUs) until 2018.  Expect a Pascal refresh in Q2 this year, as I've predicted many times.  

60 series coming?.

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gridironcpj
Volta isn't coming to the consumer market (gaming GPUs) until 2018.  Expect a Pascal refresh in Q2 this year, as I've predicted many times.  

Even with Pascal refresh, since I know Volta is coming it makes me want to wait for Volta even if Pascal refresh has good improvements. I also do want a GTX 1080Ti if it comes out. I do not know where the money for this is coming but damn I want it all.

I know, i plan on skipping the ones from this year as is especially if it is a pascal refresh and buy again next year, seeing as though I already have pascal based cards.

I would be coming from a Kepler GPU (GTX 780Ti) so a Pascal Refresh would still be a sensible upgrade for myself.