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
post edited by Xavier Zepherious - 2017/01/27 12:58:50