So guys here I am consolidating all the rumors regarding the new generation Nvidia cards floating around the web world. Why I am doing this? Just to save you some bandwidth. Is that reason plausible?
Ok lets go then.
- The first rumor is regarding the naming convention of the new generation cards. As you all know that Nvidia as recently showcased their advancements in the field of Ray Tracing. You might be wondering what exactly Ray Tracing is? Please visit this link to know the definition in brief or else you can visit Nvidia’s official website to know about the same in much more detail. So because of this Ray Tracing thing the new generation GPU from Nvidia can be prefixed with RTX instead of GTX as usual. Also in the leaks only high end xx80 and xx70 will be prefixed with RTX tag.
- The second rumor is that Nvidia will announce the new chip on August 20 at Gamescom in Germany this year.
- The performance gains as per leaks is nothing special if we consider the flagship xx80 GPU. It is rumored to be just 8% faster than the current 1080ti. People are saying that difference in performance can be substantial if we take into account the Ray Tracing technology present in the new xx80. But again it is all speculation and we still don’t have any main game which utilizes this tech on a large scale.
- Pricing is one such rumor which is varying a lot from site to site. Some are saying that the pricing of xx80 can be as high as 999 US dollars and some are keeping it between 700 to 850 US dollars. At 999 US dollar it is literally out of reach for many gamers and enthusiasts.
- There are also some rumors regarding changes in design for Founders Edition cards from Nvidia it self. It may feature a dual fan design like other cards from different AIB (Add in board) partners like Zotac and Asus.
- Power consumption is also making some rumors at various websites. The leak of new water cooled design form iGame (Colorful) indicates that this new generation GPU can be little hot to handle.
- Fabrication process is rumored to be at 12nm. Because of this many are saying that it will hardly be different form Pascal series of GPU’s. It can be 7nm also but who knows?
- The new GPU’s are expected to come with GDDR6 memory. It is already being manufactured on large scale by memory companies like Micron and Samsung
- There can be some delay also in launching these new cards as recently there was some news about TSMC fabrication company getting infected with some ransomware. No idea about this at all. I just think it would be good to mention the same here.
- The new architecture can either be termed as Turing or Ampere.
Apart from these there are some more rumors also but they are not that much juicy.