So from the looks of it. Sometime in 2017 well see a pascal GPU ?
Guess a 980ti will be the best card for the money right now.

At this point might skip pascal and go volta.

I am hopeful it will be at the consumer level before the end of this year.
 

 
Big honking Passive cooling
HBM2 (which is ECC) 
 

if im reading that right NVidia usually puts a time date of manufacturing on all chips
15 year 4 month 3 day
could also be year 15 - week 43
main chip in middle - the substrate might have taken 1 year ie.. the rest of the chip
 
 
http://videocardz.com/58865/nvidia-1st-generation-pascal-speculation 

Nvidia chief architect indicated high gaming performance of Pascal on
 
"But it therefore runs Crysis very fast if you want"
 
albums According the Pascal architecture was not only designed for the HPC market: "Our architectural philosophy was: How can we HPC specialists, make developers of autonomous vehicles and gamers happy? We had to ensure the right balance in the core design. " The first chip GP100 was however directly tailored to HPC and Deep Learning. "But Crysis running on it very quickly," said albums and placed so high gaming performance of Pascal-chip prospect.Furthermore, it is the architecture "extremely scalable."
 
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/GTC-2016-Nvidia-Chefarchitekt-deutet-hohe-Gaming-Performance-von-Pascal-an-3163999.html 
 
 
as for PX2
 
GP106  4GB ram 128 bit interface
 
That not only the prototype with Maxwell GPUs but also the final product with Pascal will feature GDDR5 video memory, Nvidia has confirmed these days on the Graphics Technology Conference 2016th. The presentation slides can be seen that each of the two discrete GPUs Pascal 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are assigned. According to VR World of memory is connected via a 128-bit interface, resulting in a clock frequency of 2500 MHz, a memory bandwidth of 80 GB / s result. The frequency can be increased to up to 3000 MHz, allowing 96 GB / s.
 
http://www.computerbase.de/2016-04/nvidia-drive-px-2-kleine-pascal-gpus-mit-128-bit-und-4-gb-gddr5/ 

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At this point might skip pascal and go volta.

That may not be a bad idea at all.

I'm with you guys.

And, if you're running SLI on either 970s or 980s, wait for Volta.

What you will wait 3 years with GTX980... OK.
I will upgrade on Pascal GP100 no matter when they launch.
I would upgrade on Pascal even from GTX980Ti, but I can't afford two of them and I have no problem to wait summer, autumn or winter for TITAN successor. More time, more money I will save for full unlocked model and M.2 512GB.
Yes I need card, but I would not like to pay 700 euro for one year old graphic card with 6GB GDDR5. 
Not because I don't want GTX980Ti or I don't like GTX980Ti, or because that's not good card... Matrix 980Ti Gold is very very fast and available in store 2km from me... But only because I must decide between Maxwell and Pascal and Pascal give more performance difference.
You know NVIDIA, they talk nothing... or little and than suddenly news.... NVIDIA launch cards for 15 days. 
People are impatience and I'm... But investing now in Maxwell would be mistake... I made one mistake, and didn't bought TITAN Black instead GK110 K|NGP|N and that cost me Maxwell and I now I should be calm not to force Maxwell...
It was not destiny to play on Maxwell and I should leave him to pass.
 
 

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What you will wait 3 years with GTX980... OK.
I will upgrade on Pascal GP100 no matter when they launch.
I would upgrade on Pascal even from GTX980Ti, but I can't afford two of them and I have no problem to wait summer, autumn or winter for TITAN successor. More time, more money I will save for full unlocked model and M.2 512GB.
Yes I need card, but I would not like to pay 700 euro for one year old graphic card with 6GB GDDR5. 
Not because I don't want GTX980Ti or I don't like GTX980Ti, or because that's not good card... Matrix 980Ti Gold is very very fast and available in store 2km from me... But only because I must decide between Maxwell and Pascal and Pascal give more performance difference.
You know NVIDIA, they talk nothing... or little and than suddenly news.... NVIDIA launch cards for 15 days. 
People are impatience and I'm... But investing now in Maxwell would be mistake... I made one mistake, and didn't bought TITAN Black instead GK110 K|NGP|N and that cost me Maxwell and I now I should be calm not to force Maxwell...
It was not destiny to play on Maxwell and I should leave him to pass.
 
 

Yeah, I'm either going to wait three years or jump on some seriously discounted Pascal boards after Volta is released. I'm worried that Pascal is going to be a major problem child dealing with the new GPU chip and its interface on top of the fact that nVidia can't make up its mind about whether we'll be getting GDDR5 or HBM.

Zuhl3156
Yeah, I'm either going to wait three years or jump on some seriously discounted Pascal boards after Volta is released. I'm worried that Pascal is going to be a major problem child dealing with the new GPU chip and its interface on top of the fact that nVidia can't make up its mind about whether we'll be getting GDDR5 or HBM.

Pascal already has HBM2, look at the tesla card above. Just because the speculation and tech site rumors can't make up their mind what Nvidia is doing doesn't mean that Nvidia didn't know all along. That is why people need to stop reading speculation and start waiting for official releases. Imagine how little confusion thwre would be if that happened.

Not once has Nvidia actually said which they will use, that I have seen. They didn't state "Pascal will have hbm2" and it does, as shown above.

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Pascal already has HBM2, look at the tesla card above. Just because the speculation and tech site rumors can't make up their mind what Nvidia is doing doesn't mean that Nvidia didn't know all along. That is why people need to stop reading speculation and start waiting for official releases. Imagine how little confusion thwre would be if that happened.

Not once has Nvidia actually said which they will use, that I have seen. They didn't state "Pascal will have hbm2" and it does, as shown above.

I've seen two versions of speculation since it isn't actually an official release statement from nVidia. One is that Pascal will use HBM and the other is that the initial release will use an upgraded version of GDDR5 called GDDR5+. Either way it doesn't really matter to me.

Zuhl3156

I've seen two versions of speculation since it isn't actually an official release statement from nVidia. One is that Pascal will use HBM and the other is that the initial release will use an upgraded version of GDDR5 called GDDR5+. Either way it doesn't really matter to me.

Just a quick note, my phone is stupid. If I type did, it changes to didn't all the time... I said "they did say they would use HBM2..." and it changed that part, >(

LOL...autocorrect plague....... that's OK...  be glad it spilled that instead of something totally stupid or offensive
 
 
Anyways gp104 will have GDDR5x - and expect 8GB
gp106-107 will have GDDR5 and 4GB
 
gp 102 may have HBM2 or GDDR5X - two version of cards with HBM2 are rumored to exist 
if gddr5x maybe 384bit bus...even 512 possible

May 27 ???   GeForce GTX 1080 with 8GB gddr5x
 
Well, at least I have a nice juicy rumor just in time for the weekend. Asian based Benchlife claims that Nvidia will release a Pascal architecture based GeForce GTX 1080 with 8GB gddr5x in May. It would make sense as HBM2 will be available in volume only later in the year.
There's a precise date being mentioned as well, May 27th, four days prior to the Computex exhibition. Obviously Nvidia is not going to comment on this rumor.
 
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All I want: is a solid 100FPS on my predator x34 on ultra settings in games.(is that too much to ask)
Sadly almost never does this happen due to poorly optimized games or SLI profiles. I would prefer games and SLI profiles be optimized with game launches than new GPU's every year. Even with my current rig I am surprised at how poor performance can be even with bleeding edge or enthusiast gear. That being said I will still purchase new cards because PC gaming, productivity, modding, water cooling is my passion.
 
So let the pascal cards roll in and ill throw water at them.   :)

Pascal will not become cheaper when Volta show up. If I remember TITAN, TITAN Black, only gone from market one day soon after new series show up. EVGA special always made exactly how much people want before new series show up. When new series show up they have only enough cards to cover RMA cases in next 2-3 years and cards gone from market. Waiting new series to show up only to pay 200$ less 2 years old card is madness above all. That's exactly as someone wait now GP100 and than spend 800$ on TITAN X.
Volta will be OK and every generation bring something new but for now Pascal with transfer from GDDR5 to HBM2 and faster memory is improvement as manufacturer offer once in 3-4 years. I don't know what will Volta have. It's very hard to believe now in sources.
That's as someone few months before GTX580 talk about GK110. Even worse... that's as someone few weeks or months before GTX480 talk about Kepler successor of Fermi and GK110. How knows what can happen, maybe even delay of architecture, maybe truck hit me on street... I mean period is long. Need to pass whole lifetime of still not presented architecture...
Maxwell will offer 25 fps in DX12 in that time. If GM200 have 50-55fps in some games as Witcher 3 now, DX11...
I could only imagine how much will NVIDIA to take care for them in next 3 years...
They will burn them rather than improve performance in DX12 games.  Whole point of investing is DX12 and Windows 10, new engines...
If someone don't care for that he could play even with two GTX780 and that will be almost same memory and fps as 980.