Nvidia Turing release date, news, and rumors

Will the real next-generation Nvidia graphics card architecture please stand up? Like, seriously.

There are three different architectures all vying to be behind the anticipated GeForce GTX 1180 between Turing, Ampere and Volta – and we’re putting our money on Turing. We’ve been waiting for Nvidia to make an announcement for a while, and Nvidia seems content to make us wait. Most recently, we were expecting Nvidia to hint at Turing at Computex 2018, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said we’d be waiting a ‘long time’. 

Does this mean we won’t be getting an announcement at Hot Chips in August like we expected? We’ll just have to wait and see.

Anyways, similar to previous generational leaps, like Maxwell to Pascal, we’re expecting the Nvidia GeForce GTX 11 series GPUs to bring efficiency, and maybe PC gaming as a whole, to an entirely new level with true 4K, 60 frames-per-second gaming with a single GPU.

Cut to the chase

• What is it? Nvidia’s next generation graphics cards for gamers
• When is it out? Rumored for July 2018
• What will it cost? Hopefully not much more than Pascal 

Nvidia Turing release date

We kept hearing word of Nvidia’s next generation graphics cards coming out this summer, but it’s looking less likely every single day. The latest blow came from Nvidia boss Jensen Huang responding to a reporter that the next Nvidia GPUs will be coming out a ‘long time from now’. What does that mean? We have no idea.

We do know that all those rumors saying that the GTX 1180 Founders Edition coming out in July were false, but we’re still optimistic that they’ll come out by the end of the year. Right now, we’re clinging to the hope that Nvidia will announce the next line of mainstream GPUs at Hot Chips on August 20. If they stick to this date, we could see the next generation of GPUs releasing sometime in September. 

We’ve also seen reports of Turing-powered laptop GPUs launching by the end of 2018. Whether or not this points to when the desktop graphics cards will be getting their launch remains to be seen.   

Nvidia Turing price

Given the current state of GPU prices in a cryptocurrency-crazed world, we can’t but help to predict higher prices for graphics cards in the near future. Especially given that the Pascal graphics cards came at a slightly higher premium over the last-generation Maxwell cards they replaced.

With that all in mind, we wouldn’t be surprised to see the price of Turing GPUs take a slight uptick over these following Founders Cards that are currently available:

• Nvidia Titan Xp - $1,199 (£1,099, AU$1,950)
• Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti - $699 (£679, AU$1099)
• Nvdia GTX 1080 - $599 (£600, AU$925)
• Nvidia TX 1070 Ti - $449 (£419, AU$759)
• Nvidia GTX 1070 - $379 (£379, AU$699)
• Nvidia GTX 1060 - $199 (£279, AU$429)

Nvidia Turing specs

Given that Nvidia has already introduced its new 12nm manufacturing process with Volta, we expect it to trickle down to the company’s consumer-facing Turing line. Beyond that, however there aren’t really any confirmed details about the details surrounding Nvidia’s next line of graphics cards.

That’s not to say we can’t speculate, however. An entry for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1180 has popped up on the TechPowerUP GPU database, with a ton of details about the unreleased card. This is all rumor, but more evidence keeps popping up every day that the GTX 1180 will run with 3,584 CUDA cores, 224 TMUs and packs double the VRAM of the GTX 1080 – with 16GB of the GDDR6 VRAM found on the Nvidia Titan V.

That’s not all, either. We’ve also seen some speculation pop up on Wccftech about a possible GTX 1170 with massively better specs than the GTX 1070, including 2,688 CUDA cores, 168 TMUs and a whopping 9.75 TFLOPS. 

Whatever the case, we fully expect Nvidia to deliver with new GPU technology that pushes the envelope for PC gaming as it always has.

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