It appears that Nvidia new Pascal GPU based graphics cards could come earlier than expected with availability expected in the early second half of this year.

According to a latest rumor coming from Korean site Digital Times, Nvidia might announce its Pascal GPU as early as April, with availability expected in June or July. According to the rumor, Nvidia already has a range of Pascal GPU samples based on 16nm manufacturing process that are being produced and tested internally.

The lineup will include a wide range of graphics card based on various versions of the Pascal GPU as well as HBM2 and GDDR5X memory. The report also suggest that the flagship version could be coming in the late second half of 2016, when higher capacity HBM2 becomes available.

Nvidia is expected to unveil a GTX Titan X successor at GTC 2016, which could feature 16GB of HBM2 while professional Tesla/Quadro could even pack up to 32GB of HBM2. Consumer-based graphics cards could come at a later date as Nvidia will most likely want to clear as much GTX 980 Ti stock as possible.

AMD is also expected to unveil its next-generation 14nm Polaris GPU architecure in mid-2016 so it will be an interesting year and we are certainly looking forward to it.



Source: via Wccftech.com.