Although the miners may jump all over them and give us barely a chance to grab one ourselves, if you're looking for a new-generation graphics card, July may be the time to grab one, as Nvidia's upcoming 11-series is purportedly launching around that date.
Said to be based on the in-development Turing/Ampere graphics card technology (as per WCCFTech), there is said to be two graphics card lines planned for the release, one aimed at miners, the other at gamers. How that split will work is anyone's guess, but it may result in shortages for everyone if Nvidia hasn't done much to ramp up production.
The 1180 and 1170 are said to be the first cards that will launch, with GDDR6 under the hood, rather than the high bandwidth memory (HBM and HBM2) that we have seen in Nvidia's more AI focused cards like the Tesla V100. GDDR6 is said to operate at around the same 1.35v of GDDR5, but will have as much as double the bandwidth, making it vastly more impressive than even GDDR5X. It will be more expensive to produce though, which could point to a higher cost of individual cards in the beginning.
The big estimate is that the 1170 and 1180 will come in two different guises: 8GB and 16GB models, which should provide some variety in the range, in performance and pricing, with the larger models aimed at those targeting 4K resolution. Both should be capable of delivering the frames necessary for it though. The 1180 will probably match or even slightly exceed the 1080Ti in terms of performance, while we'd expect the 1170 to nudge itself above the 1080.
