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Nvidia Says New GPUs Won't Be Available For a 'Long Time' (pcgamer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the make-plans-accordingly dept.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said this week at Computex that people should not get their hopes up for any major GPU upgrades in the company's lineup in the foreseeable future. From a report: When asked when the next-gen GeForce would arrive, Jensen quipped, "It will be a long time from now. I'll invite you, and there will be lunch." That was it for discussions of the future Turing graphics cards, but that's hardly a surprise. Nvidia doesn't announce new GPUs months in advance -- it will tell us when it's ready to launch. Indications from other sources, including graphics card manufacturers, is that the Turing GPUs will arrive in late July at the earliest, with August/September for lower tier cards and custom designs.

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  1. Translation: market penetration of 4K too low by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Graphics have been "good enough" for max settings in 1080p gaming since at least the 7-series and nothing is driving 4K adoption.

    1. Re:Translation: market penetration of 4K too low by Moof123 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      60 Hz limit in 4K of DP1.2 and HDMI 2.0 have made 4K a real trade-off compared to 1080P, gaming.

      There really is some chicken and egg stuff going on between having a card good enough to drive 4K, and having good monitors that can do 100+ Hz at 4K. Even today the Gsync capable screens painfully more expensive than their vanilla counterparts.

  2. For now by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "No GPUs for a long time. .forseeable future..."

    "Late July..."

    Consumer electronics is more development cycle-compressed than ever.

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  3. Re:Indeed - the demand curve is broken... by zlives · · Score: 3, Insightful

    there is no competition to drive performance...

  4. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? by Joce640k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You just failed business 101.

    New cards should be held back as long as current cards are selling well and there's no serious competition. Anything else is throwing away R&D money.

    (because you'll immediately be forced to start spending money on the next generation card)

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  5. Re:Why would they want to ship new product? by ebrandsberg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just because you haven't rolled out Generation 3, doesn't mean you can't start the work on generation 4. It just means you can take more time to make sure they are GOOD, or you complete the design for gen 4, and start on gen 5. If you CAN be several generations ahead of your competition, and are ready for surprises, you should be. An example of where this did NOT happen was with Intel vs. the most recent generation of AMD chips. AMD came out stronger than anybody expected, and Intel didn't have a set of designs to put to the fab yet that would compete.