Amidst continued rumors of a mid-year reveal of Nvidia's next generation of mainstream graphics cards, we have some bad news for you -- it doesn't look like anything is coming until perhaps even the fourth quarter of this year. A new slide from an upcoming show suggests that Nvidia will reveal its next-generation graphics cards in August at the earliest.
The GTX 11 series, or GTX 2000 series -- whatever it ends up being called -- has been shrouded in mystery for some time. We don't know what it's going to be like, whether it will be based on the suggested Turing or prototyped (with the Titan V) Volta architectures, nor do we know whether it will be a Pascal refresh or something new entirely. With little high-end competition from AMD, there's no rush it seems, which is why we may not find any of this out until August.
The new hint that we may have to wait until then to learn more about the new-gen cards, comes from a slide for the Hot Chips Symposium show, which takes place on August 20. There, on the first day of the conference, at 11:30am, Nvidia is scheduled to conduct a talk about "Nvidia's next-generation mainstream GPU."
While technically that doesn't have to be a reveal, there wouldn't be much point to revealing a new graphics card and then talking about it a couple of months later. It's possible that a reveal could happen shortly before, but why skip out on the publicity of a big show by doing an unveiling in between them?
Many hoped that we'd see Nvidia's new cards at Computex in mid-June, but that seems unlikely now.
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