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The next generation for Nvidia is Volta. For what is being rumored, it will have HBM2 on the high end and GDDR6 on the lower end cards. HBM2 has the issue that there is only limited availability and AMD has priority access to volume, due to their participation in the development of HBM memory. Micron just announced that they are pushing forward the production of GDDR6 to the end of the this year, making it look like they are readying it for cards hitting the market next year.As for the 1080 Ti, the original Titan was launched Feb 21, 2013 followed by the 780 Ti on Nov 7 2013 (7 1/2 months after) and the Titan X was launched March 17, 2015 followed by the 980 Ti on June 1, 2015 (2 1/2 months after). Since the Titan X (Pascal) was launched August 2nd last year, we're still in a reasonable timeframe. Besides, Nvidia would want to reap as much in terms of premiums it's getting from the sales of the Titan X, especially now that it is being done exclusively with direct sales. The 1080 Ti will go through traditional sales channels and will probably be dropped before Vega gets released, so the early estimates I've seen are PAX East, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed to April, as Vega is supposed to be out in Q2 (talks have been May).
The next generation for Nvidia is Volta. For what is being rumored, it will have HBM2 on the high end and GDDR6 on the lower end cards. HBM2 has the issue that there is only limited availability and AMD has priority access to volume, due to their participation in the development of HBM memory. Micron just announced that they are pushing forward the production of GDDR6 to the end of the this year, making it look like they are readying it for cards hitting the market next year.
As for the 1080 Ti, the original Titan was launched Feb 21, 2013 followed by the 780 Ti on Nov 7 2013 (7 1/2 months after) and the Titan X was launched March 17, 2015 followed by the 980 Ti on June 1, 2015 (2 1/2 months after). Since the Titan X (Pascal) was launched August 2nd last year, we're still in a reasonable timeframe. Besides, Nvidia would want to reap as much in terms of premiums it's getting from the sales of the Titan X, especially now that it is being done exclusively with direct sales. The 1080 Ti will go through traditional sales channels and will probably be dropped before Vega gets released, so the early estimates I've seen are PAX East, but I wouldn't be surprised if it gets pushed to April, as Vega is supposed to be out in Q2 (talks have been May).
