GeForce GTX 1180 Not Coming For a Long Time
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang hosted a Computex 2018 media event and was asked during the open Q&A session about the launch date for the next GeForce graphics card series. Many think this will be kicked off with the launch of the GeForce GTX 1180. According to rumors from Toms Hardware, the GTX 1180 is going to be released sometime in July with third-party versions coming out in August or September. Many have thought that this release would be late Summer or early Fall 2018, but the answer from Jensen Huang caught many tech journalists off guard when he stated their high-anticipated next-generation GPUs won’t be launching for a long time from now. How one interprets what a ‘long time’ is can greatly vary, so we’ll just leave it at that.
The good news is that Pascal-based GeForce cards are still in high demand and are loved by gamers and cryptocurrency miners alike. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 was released in May 2017, so Pascal has been been on the market for slightly longer than two years. Gamers are ready for NVIDIA’s next gaming flagship card and we are too! We recently noticed that NVIDIA’s “Next Generation Mainstream GPU” would be detailed at the annual Hot Chips conference that runs August 19-21. We expect the next two months to be filled with leaks as the AIB’s should be getting GPUs to build cards with here very soon. Then we’ll learn more about the cards and the GDDR6 memory they are rumored to be using. GDDR6 is something gamers and cryptocurrency miners are both looking forward to. The rumors right now have the GeForce GTX 1180 running with 3,584 CUDA cores, compared to the GTX 1080s 2,560. It is said to have with 224 TMUs versus 160 Texture Mapping Units on the 1080 and is built on the newer 12nm process as opposed to 16nm. On the memory side the card is said to have 16GB of GDDR6 memory, but clock details have been discused from what we have seen.
AMD’s Navi GPU is rumored to be coming out in 2019 and who knows what Intel is going to be doing with their discrete graphics solution that they are working on. It looks like 2018 is going to be a good year for NVIDIA as their main competitors in the desktop GPU market don’t appear to be launching new products anytime soon.
In other news it looks like NVIDIA’s Big Format Gaming Displays (BFGD), which are massive 65-inch G-Sync HDR monitors, are coming along just fine and will be out this year. We first saw the NVIDIA BFGD at CES 2018.