There has been an alleged NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1170 benchmark picture that has been making its rounds on the internet. This benchmark shows that the new performance segment card has some very impressive performance, actually beating NVIDIA's own GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. The card in the below picture scores 29,752 in 3DMark's FireStrike benchmark.
Well here it is, the first listing for NVIDIA's next-generation GeForce GTX 1180 graphics card, which comes in the form of the GeForce GTX 1180 ASUS ROG Strix. The listing does give us some information on the card as well. First off the card is based off the "GT104" silicon, which means it is part of the "Turing" architecture. So it seems like NVIDIA is forking its new architectures separating chips that feature DPFP (double-precision floating point) cores and Tensor cores, and those that lack both. So "Turning" would be a fork of "Volta" that lacks DPFP CUDA cores and Tensor cores as well as makes use of the cheaper GDDR6 memory.
A photo of an NVIDIA prototype graphics card was posted on Reddit by user "dustinbrooks" who said it was "tested by a buddy of his that works for a company that tests NVIDIA boards". For those skeptics out there the card is clearly made by NVIDIA as indicated by the markings near the PCI-Express x16 slot connector. We can also see three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors and a huge VRM with four cooling fans.
While we thought Intel would be announcing a discrete GPU at CES 2019, it looks like it will be another year till we see a discrete GPU from Intel. This 2020 date was confirmed by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich during an event for analysts last week.
AMD did announce a new graphics card at Computex 2018, although not really that new. They unveiled the Radeon RX Vega Nano, which is the successor to the high-end small form factor card the Radeon R9 Nano. This card was actually brought to life thanks to AMD add-in board partner PowerColor.
Even though we are likely not getting a GeForce announcement at Computex 2018 we do expect to see some pretty awesome cards at the show. The first outrageous card to rear its head at the show is the COLORFUL GeForce GTX 1080 Ti KUDAN.
I'm sure many of you read our report yesterday on how NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang when asked about a Volta-based GeForce Card said “It’ll be a long time from now”. Obviously for all of us gamers out there that was a little disappointing. Well a new report coming from Anthony Garreffa of TweakTown is saying that we will see a next-generation GeForce GTX 1180 launching on July 30th!
Another editor asked for a small hint and Huang answered, "Do not worry, I will invite you", followed by "It'll be a long time from now". Now this question was specific on Volta so it does not count out a Pascal refresh, but it you were looking for a GeForce announcement at Computex it is likely not happening.
It looks like we will get information on NVIDIA’s next generation mainstream GPU at the Hot Chips Symposium which takes place August 19-21. If you look at the program details it lists a talk by NVIDIA’s Stuart Oberman, titled “NVIDIA’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU” to be held on August 20th.
According to the latest reports NVIDIA is putting the final touches on its first serious GeForce-branded GPU based on the next-generation NVIDIA architecture. While we do not know which architecture the GPU will be based on it looks like it is slated for a late-July product announcement.
