Shouldn't we be seeing all sorts of legit looking rumors/leaks at this point if cards are being released late summer or even early fall? I'm starting to think nothing launches until at least late fall.
It's one week till computex. Either we get there some rumours going or Turing is coming later. Beside Toms no one had heard of a July launch yet, i don't think we'll see a hardlaunch in July. Maybe a architecture presentation with release date, which will follow in august.
nVidia will talk about their "NVIDIA’s Next Generation Mainstream GPU" at Hotchips: https://www.hotchips.org/program/
So the release will be in the next 2 1/2 months.
What Jensen told everyone was that they will be invited to the launch of new GeForce, but they should not expect it very soon. This confirms what we have been hearing from the industry for the past few months, NVIDIA has not given any details to their partners yet, so there is nothing to talk about yet.
Jensen stated that the next GeForce products are still a ways a way.
https://videocardz.com/newz/jensen-huang-next-geforce-is-a-long-time-from-now
Is the next GeForce being on TSMC 7 nm going to be a real possibility now?
No. The next Tesla will be though. It is possible that Turing is just 1170/1180 however, just to have something new out there for BTS/Christmas shopping season.
I almost not see logic making 2070/2080 in 12nm when Vega 7nm is around the corner, better have nothing and wait for 7nm to mature!
Nvidia's 12nm will likely be easily competitive with AMD's 7nm products.
Just like Maxwell 28nm had about the same performance/TDP ratio as Polaris 14nm. Lol.
Looks like a late July / early August release. I'm sure it will be blower models first, followed by AIB custom cards 2 months later. I'm anticipating (guessing) that Pascal's FE prices ($699 and $449) will be the across-the-board MSRP prices, but I also think we might see a $50 price hike in the GTX 1170/1070 model at least until AMD can finally provide some sort of competition.
My best guesses.
$699 GTX 1180/2080 for 25-30% faster performance than GTX 1080 TI
$499 GTX 1170/2070 for 5-10% faster performance than GTX 1080 TI
$349 GTX 1160/2060 TI for GTX 1080 performance
$249 GTX 1160/2060 for GTX 1070 performance
If Nvidia rolls out the GT106 chip before AMD has any new cards on the market, Nvidia will have a ~215 mm2 chip as fast as AMD's 512 mm2 and using nearly 1/3 the power. Ouch.
I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed on pricing/performance.
NVidia, usually has almost equal price/performance to the old cards when they first come out, because the old Cards have dropped significantly in price since introduced, so the new cards are better Price/Performance than the old cards introductory pricing, but not so much compared to current discounted pricing.
But now, old card prices haven't dropped since introduction at all. So I expect across the boards generation pricing will go up this release, so NVidia can capture more revenue/profit at each price point.
Keep in mind if this is really a 12 nm product, the die size isn't going to be much smaller than GP102.
I still think it's at least $799 for the faster and $549-$599 for the slower. This FE pricing.