When do the next generation GPUs drop?

GTX 2070 & 2080 rumour or “All your bitcoins will be mine!”

Pascal refresh to use GDDR6 doesn’t make a lot of sense, because GDDR6 is still very new. It will likely be less expensive than GDDR5X, so maybe on the 1080 and 1080ti, but my guess is any 1070 or lower replacements would just be rebrands maybe with a little higher clockspeed.

Remember with coin mining everybody is selling out really quickly, even today. And without miners, AMD isn’t really competitive with Nvidia as their cards are much more power-hungry and they have nothing at the 1080ti performance-level. So there’s no compelling reason for Nvidia to really step up their game.

That article makes it sound like they’ve halted production on the 10x0 series cards, or is that just saying the 1080s? Never mind it just says the gp102 (1080 ti and titan x cards)

ASUS thinks gaming laptops are the future due to miners:

With tech consumers looking on in horror at the rising prices for hardware across the board, it may seem like a distant dream for Asus to crank out even more GPU-powered laptops and get them into gamer’s hands. However, gaming laptops are potentially set to come out of this sudden bout of shortages the victor, as these all-in-one machines are simply unnecessary and unsuited for any mining tasks…

…Asus are looking to increase their gaming laptop market by 500,000 units over the course of this year. In 2016, Asus were estimated to have sold 1.2 million of portable gaming machines, which rose by 25% in 2017 to 1.5 million units. A DigiTimes report suggests Asus’ expected sales to increase by 33% in 2018 up to a total of two million units. That’s a hell of a volume increase

As someone very price conscious, and into older games, this might be my next step in the PC world, while waiting on GPU prices to come down and I can add one later.

The faster of those new APUs is about 3/4 as fast as a 750ti. So you can expect to get low quality and 30fps at 1080p, and medium quality at 720p.

They’re a fantastic value compared to an intel i5 and a separate GT730, certainly, and much faster than integrated Intel GPUs. But they are not anywhere close to what I would consider acceptable 1080p gaming GPUs. My bottom cutoff for that is a GTX960/GTX1050 or RX-560.

I’ve been looking at the asus laptops as a possible upgrade for my old dell xps13. Trying to decide if there would be any point to going for a resolution higher than 1080p on one of those screens. g-sync + a gtx 1070 at 1080p for a pretty good price should be able to deal with anything. Would like to know if Nvidia has the new gen coming out soon though.

Rumors are that Nvidia will have a rebrand coming out in the next couple months. I wouldn’t expect a consumer Volta or successor any time soon.

True, but there is can be upgraded later on with little trouble, since it a nice entry level start.

Dell has a sale on an Alienware 6-ciore i5-8600, 16GB DDR4, and 8GB GTX 1080 for around $1150. That’s about $100 more than the price of a single 1080 card on Newegg right now.

Wow, you could buy that and resell the 1080, and get the rest of the computer for like $300.

That thought has been going through my head. It’s also $1,127.99.

http://deals.dell.com/productdetail/wew?prg=1&VEN1=12578053-8289238-4d47324f-07b9-4f4f-b9cf-4a4123921725&AID=8289238&dgc=CJ&DGSeg=DHS&c=us&s=dhs&cid=198375&lid=45846&acd=12309198375458460&VEN3=111404270152367690

That is not a bad deal. Slap an SSD in there as the boot drive and you’re golden. And as “gaming” cases go it looks pretty understated and not some garish nightmare. The only thing I’d worry about would be the PSU and maybe whether it had bays for another HDD or two.

The linked system is neither an 8600 or 1080.

You have to configure it. :)

It no longer has the 1080 option on that system, some of the others still have it though (the i7 system with the 1070 can be upgraded for $100 to the 1080).

Neither of those were options :)

Bitcoin mining is dumb, but I find the idea of a hardware producer trying to dictate what to use your computational power for kind of offensive.

If I buy a piece of hardware, I should be able to do whatever the hell I want with it.

Might be a warranty issue that they don’t want to deal with.