Nvidia's Next-Generation GPU Launch Dates Reportedly Leak

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The question of when Nvidia would launch its side by side-generation GPUs has been a thing of some discussion of late. Earlier this year, we predicted a midsummer launch, but to accept CEO Jen-Hsun Huang seemingly shoot down that idea with his proclamation that the adjacent GPU generation wouldn't appear for "a long time." Then Nvidia pulled out of a previous talk it was scheduled to give on its next-generation consumer GPU at Hot Chips (also in August). Simply later rumors and some controversial NDA changes that circulated effectually have both pointed to a release later this summer and additional evidence to that effect has now reportedly surfaced.

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The news comes via Overclockers3D. Gamer Meld, a YouTube channel, claims to accept received an email from a GPU retailer that contained data on adjacent-generation launch timing, which, as e'er, may or may not be accurate and should be taken appropriately. A copy of the email is below:

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The electronic mail notes a launch date of 8/xxx/2018 for the GTX 1180, nine/30 for some variations of the GTX 1170 and a GTX 1180+, and ten/thirty for the GTX 1160 as well as another carte variants. Staggering the launch out similar this would make some rumors of a late Q4 refresh for AMD hardware make sense, though this is supposedly a 12nm shift for Polaris with a modest corporeality of actual functioning uplift. Assuming the launch timing is accurate, information technology implies that these GPUs are built on TSMC's 12nm optimization of its 16nm engineering science (12nm should be considered a marketing term for both TSMC and GlobalFoundries rather than a fundamentally new node). And so again, given how stiff Nvidia'due south Maxwell refresh was on the same node every bit the before Kepler, Nvidia fans are likely to feel pretty good most the idea of a new architecture without a node shrink.

Let me be clear, though — 12nm is our guess for this hardware, but it's still a guess. Shipping a GPU as an early on 7nm product would, nonetheless, be a daring motion for Nvidia for several reasons. In the last few years, we've seen foundries shift to lower nanometers with smartphone SoCs first, and Apple typically leads the pack in that regard, fifty-fifty going so far equally to reportedly pay TSMC to be first on 7nm. We know AMD is besides building on 7nm at TSMC, but its Vega Auto Intelligence GPU isn't expected until the end of this year (mail service-iPhone) and volition also send in markets that can beget to pay for cutting-edge silicon. Finally, nosotros've seen GPU vendors struggle with availability when making node transitions, even when the nodes aren't new. Information technology took AMD and Nvidia months to transport 14nm in volume, even though that process node had been deployed for smartphone SoCs for over a year before Nvidia shipped its first 14nm GPU.

It seems quite unlikely that the company would hit 7nm on consumer now, but it'south not impossible.

Past that betoken, expectations for Nvidia's offset new generation in 2 years are generally high. Hopefully, the visitor's new products will deliver.

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