Titan V

[Vali 83]

I have read yesterday that for the gamers (large consumer) Nvidia might skip Volta and move forward to Ampere.

https://www.techspot.com/news/72241-first-titan-v-benchmarks-show-how-compares-gtx.html

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Yeah I read that article also, but I've also read several articles suggesting the opposite.  Given the Titan V exists (wasn't skipped) and can be made into a consumer product (an expensive one at $3000), I'm still "believing" they will make a cheaper consumer version less the tensor cores and probably less the HBM2 going with DDR6.  The HBM2 is a significant part of the high price ... with that said, HBM3 is supposed to be cheaper and faster and more capacity but not ready for volume until 2020.

But given nVidia's past, I suspect they'll have variants released when available ... look at the Titan Z, Titan X Pascal, 1080Ti, Titan XP.  There "strategy" seems to be no strategy, make it, release it, see what happens.  So I doubt they would skip the revenue potential of Volta especially since they put in the effort to make the card available to the public at the same price as the old Titan Z.

Quote from WCCFTECH:

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According to Heise, NVIDIA is preparing a next generation GPU known as “Ampere” which they are planning to unveil at GTC 2018. There are currently no details available but rumors are that NVIDIA will be jumping straight from Pascal to Ampere, at least on the GeForce front. The site alleges that the Ampere family of graphics cards will succeed the GeForce 10 series cards which are based on the Pascal GPU architecture.

Now considering this is just a rumor and no other details are mentioned, it’s advised to take this information with a grain of salt. We know for a fact that the Volta GPU is the official replacement for the Pascal GPU, according to the roadmaps.

On the very positive side, it does look like nVidia are posting impressive revenues with the gaming market representing 59% of their revenue source.  And from a consumer perspective with these GPUs Volta and Ampere we're looking at 2X to 3X performance improvements over Pascal (1080Ti).  So on the nVidia GPU front, performance is looking good and lets hope newer flight simulators can keep leveraging the new GPU hardware (VR, dynamic lighting, reflections, AA performance, etc, etc).

My 2 cents, 

Cheers, Rob.