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Nvidia's Pascal GPU architecture has been 1 of Nvidia'south longest-lived production lines in the past 20 years. It further refined and improved the technologies Nvidia introduced with Maxwell, along with making some architectural improvements of its ain, and it competes extremely well against AMD's Polaris and Vega production lines. Just Pascal is also quondam for a loftier-cease GPU architecture, particularly ane that hasn't undergone a major SKU shakeout since launch. While Kepler beats it in age (GTX 680 debuted in March 2022, with the GTX 980 arriving in September 2022), Nvidia somewhen replaced its pinnacle-end GTX 680 SKU with the GTX 780, which offered significantly boosted performance, as well as various improvements throughout the 7xx stack. Beyond launching the GTX 1080 Ti almost a year agone and the 1070 Ti tardily last year, Nvidia hasn't fabricated whatever changes to the Pascal family.

For the past few weeks we've seen rumors popping up that Nvidia would soon introduce a new GPU family, possibly at the GTC or GDC conferences this twelvemonth. We oasis't discussed the topic considering all our attempts to confirm those rumors pointed in the opposite direction. At present, THG has chimed in, indicating that their rumor mill suggests we won't run across new consumer GPUs based on the upcoming Turing architectures in the adjacent few months.

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Nvidia's Volta uses HBM2, but there's no sign NV will adopt information technology for its consumer cards. GDDR6 is the expected memory standard for adjacent-gen high-end cards.

Nvidia is supposedly prepping new cards based on Volta for non-gaming workloads with a new compute architecture, supposedly nicknamed Ampere, coming in the near-future too. The consumer follow-upwardly to Pascal is reportedly nicknamed "Turing," though we've seen some publications arguing that Ampere is the consumer part and Tesla the compute-oriented GPU. Ampere as the compute GPU seems to align more closely with "Volta" every bit a brand proper name, but we've got no inside information on that i mode or the other.

It feels a chip odd to say this, but the biggest questions surrounding Nvidia's next-generation GPU, any codename it uses, have relatively little to do with gaming performance. At that place's pregnant concern hereafter GPUs could exist impossible to detect in market if they outperform electric current Pascal fries at cryptocurrency mining. Nosotros already saw this happen with 14nm chips from AMD and Nvidia at the 14/16nm node and nobody wants a sequel with ongoing shortages that could have a twelvemonth or more to improve.

The question of which node these GPUs will employ is besides up for some fence. TSMC's 10nm nodes take, as far as we're aware, been deployed nearly entirely for mobile products. TSMC has also guided that it believes its 10nm products are a short-lived node. This is a similar strategy to what we saw at 20nm, where neither AMD nor Nvidia tapped the node for GPUs and it was replaced by FinFETs fairly chop-chop. It'south possible, therefore, that Nvidia will target TSMC's interim 12nm node (think "optimized 16nm") rather than moving to a make-new node in 2022.

The other reason Nvidia can beget to take its time in many of these efforts is because AMD's Vega isn't really nipping at its proverbial heels. Vega 56'south pb over the GTX 1070 was largely eliminated past the GTX 1070 Ti, and the increased cryptocurrency need for AMD GPUs has fabricated them less relevant to Nvidia in any instance. We covered this in some detail earlier this calendar week, but with AMD GPUs currently seeing more price inflation than their Nvidia counterparts, Nvidia has even less reason to button for new part introductions. Hopefully this too means they've had the time to find ways to prevent cryptocurrency miners from yanking all the desktop GPUs out of the market when new products do inevitably launch, and to ensure a robust supply of production and then we don't see the same supply shortages equally happened in 2022.