Remember; Pascal dropped much earlier than anyone was expecting. Back then, next-gen Nvidia cards were rumoured to be end of 2016, then, Nvidia makes their big announcement for 1000 series with very quick availability (not dragged out paper launch). They're not going to wait for the competition. Volta was also obviously not suitable for gaming. Even if there was only 50% improvement, the market would react very positively. (Too positively if you include the miners ofcourse).

H83:

Like all the others said before this launch only matters if Nvidia can satisfy the miners demand or if virtual currencies crash and burn... Good thing i already have enough GPU power for the next 2 or 3 years.

Same here. I do have enough GPU power probably for the rest of my Desktop PC's life cycle. Considering I may upgrade in the next 3-5 years or so. Considering I may upgrade my Rig in that time frame.

just no. i just got my card if it double tflop from last year i will be tad upset

tsunami231:

just no. i just got my card if it double tflop from last year i will be tad upset

that's the computer upgrade game future proofing is a falacy, just spend what you think is worth it and you can afford another year at least i think until a new gpu for me, mining doesn't help, neither does brexit or memory crash. 2 years on and I think to buy my pc equivalent it costs just as much as I paid for it.

maize1951:

To bad they WILL all be bought up by miners, every last one of them unless the manufactures put a restriction on sellers that they can only sell one per household (sorry SLI,ers).

Miner here. Can confirm I'll be purchasing a bunch of the 2070s or 2080s. Whichever hits the sweet spot.

DW75:

Because of these fuckin miners, the cost of the GTX 2080 will skyrocket to 2000 bucks on launch, if you can find one.

You can be lucky if you catch FE from Nvidia sites, though they are not well cooled.

coth:

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All due respect : Please upgrade your graphic card to GTX 2030 (foremost).... as soon as the card "will" be available....

scatman839:

that's the computer upgrade game future proofing is a falacy, just spend what you think is worth it and you can afford another year at least i think until a new gpu for me, mining doesn't help, neither does brexit or memory crash. 2 years on and I think to buy my pc equivalent it costs just as much as I paid for it.

I know it just infurating. I wont get another gpu for at very lesst 3 years

As much as I hate this crypto currency thing artificially inflating the prices, I don't think Nvidia should manipulate or regulate the market. Market should never be artificially regulated. It'll get back to normal at some point. Crypto mining is a fad and it created a bubble on the GPU market. Every bubble burst at some point. Just have patience. Probably won't last more than a year. This or Nvidia should create a product specifically geared to crypto mining, since there's this huge demand.

Well i hope its soon, i was going to get the msi gtx 1080 but decided to wait as my msi gtx 980 was still good but the gtx 1080 has gone up to £750 here, price keeps going up instead of down lol so i plan to just buy the Msi gtx 2080 as soon as its out 😀

I read somewhere in an article that the memory for the video cards were also part of the factor. That the cards were either sold out or on back order. Probably for the high prices as well as because of the crazy miners.

aka2k:

As much as I hate this crypto currency thing artificially inflating the prices, I don't think Nvidia should manipulate or regulate the market. Market should never be artificially regulated. It'll get back to normal at some point. Crypto mining is a fad and it created a bubble on the GPU market. Every bubble burst at some point. Just have patience. Probably won't last more than a year. This or Nvidia should create a product specifically geared to crypto mining, since there's this huge demand.

I know right. one AIB partner created a card dedicated to mining and it was a watered down GTX1070 with 4GB of VRAM forgot who made it I think it was Gigabyte but not sure. Nvidia makes cards for gaming and Workstation applications but not mining. Nvidia needs to tell the other vendors in order to regulate the market is to limit 1 or 2 cards per shipping address per 1 or 2 days.

I hope AMD and Nvidia make mining specific cards that offer a lot of extra performance for miners so they stop buying up all the gaming designed cards. I would venture to guess they can easily profit from this as I can only imagine they sell as many cards to miners as they sell there professional line to content creators.

PC hardware, for the miners. o_O

Sad days for enthusiasts and gamers when even with the inflated price of RAM, you can buy top of the line AM4 Mobo, ryzen7, and 32GB of 3200 for less than a 1080Ti.

blazngun:

Sad days for enthusiasts and gamers when even with the inflated price of RAM, you can buy top of the line AM4 Mobo, ryzen7, and 32GB of 3200 for less than a 1080Ti.

For a 1080 ti? You can add the PSU and SSD for the complete build for under the 1080 ti prices.

Maaan i've been ready to pull the trigger on an upgrade from my HD7950 but i just can't justify the prices.. I guess when i do finally upgrade the leap in performance will seem like the wait was worth it haha. On topic though i would love to get my hands on a 2060 but as many have outlined, they will probs all go to miners 🙁.

blazngun:

Sad days for enthusiasts and gamers when even with the inflated price of RAM, you can buy top of the line AM4 Mobo, ryzen7, and 32GB of 3200 for less than a 1080Ti.

The even sadder thing is that you can get 32GB 3000C16 kit, an R7 1700 and Asrock X370 Taichi(total ~€830-850) for less/equal/ than even a GTX 1080 in some places.

Rage:

Miner here. Can confirm I'll be purchasing a bunch of the 2070s or 2080s. Whichever hits the sweet spot.

Guys we got one!!! Surround him quick!!!! 😀

Koniakki:

Guys we got one!!! Surround him quick!!!! 😀

Impossible. 🙁 His transport is already on route...: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TLz17CMQoVc/maxresdefault.jpg

Was looking at the GPU specs on the last few generations of Nvidia GPUs.. I kind of see a pattern in Nvidia's designs and how they changed from generation to generation. Maxwell GPUs = 4 SMs per GPC Pascal GPUs = 5 SMs per GPC (Geforce) or 10 SMs per GPC (Tesla) Volta GPUs = 14 SMs per GPC Before this bit of rumor/news was thinking at first the GTX 11 or 20 series would have half of the SMs per GPC compared to the big Volta chip like they did currently with Pascal. So I was thinking 7 SMs per GPC initially. But after this bit of news that the next consumer GPU will be a new GPU design entirely. I'm kind of thinking it won't be based directly on Volta's design at all. Not to mention I did a few calculations based on a 7 SMs / GPC setup and you'd need the chips clocked very high to see significant performance gains for these next generation cards. The Volta chip is fast but it's not the massive leap I was expecting for a top tier card. I mean 14.9 TFLOPS is fast sure.. but it's not enough of a leap for a new generation of gaming cards. I'm leaning more toward Ampere GPUs having 8 SMs per GPC, which would make for some pretty beastly GPUs! I guess you could say these specs below are an good educated guess.. based on previous GPU designs and the trend Nvidia has been forming the last few generations. Not to mention the push for 4K gaming!! GA104 (GTX2080) Possible Specs?? (Note: This is an educated guess!) 4 GPCs Total 32 SMs Total (8 SMs / GPC) 4096 Cuda Cores Total (128 Cores / SM) 256 TMUs Total (8 TMUs / SM) 96 ROPs Total (8 ROPs / Memory Controller) ~1425Mhz Base Clock ~1650Mhz Boost Clock (~13.5 TFLOPS) ~422 GTexels/sec Texture Fill Rate ~158 GPixels/sec Pixel Fill Rate 12GB DDR6 12,000 Mhz 384 bit Memory Interface 576GB/sec Bandwidth If my guess is right that would put the GTX2080 right between the Titan Xp & Titan V in performance!! A lot of that is if my clockspeeds and number of Cuda cores is anywhere close to correct! The Titan V clockspeeds are quite a bit lower compared to Pascal.. I'm kind of thinking we'll see the same trend in the next generation. Unless my thinking is completely off the mark here.