If today you are seriously thinking about updating your computer with a new graphics card, and especially if your idea is to bet on a high-end one, it is best that you think about it seriously since the decision, at least today, It is much more complicated than you can imagine since we are not only talking about deciding between the models that exist on the market, but we also have to take into account those that are yet to come.
In this scenario we have to have the next arrival of the new AMD Vega architecture and especially the new counterattack that has just been announced from the competition, we are talking about Nvidia Volta, an architecture that, as has been commented, would be capable of revolutionizing the graphic world and that will hit the market precisely this year 2017 although, as expected, the most advanced models will not be available until 2018.
NVIDIA will offer more powerful and efficient graphics thanks to the new Volta architecture.
One of the real keys that will make this announced revolution possible is the jump that NVIDIA Volta will make to the 12 nm, a new lithographic scale that will offer advantages over the 16 nm used by the current Pascal family, which will not disappear from the market for now.
At this point, it must be clear that first the NVIDIA Voltas will be available for supercomputing while the Pascal architecture will receive news in the form of the new GeForce GTX 2080 Ti, GTX 2080 and GTX 2070, cards that, although they will mount the same GP102 and GP104 GPUs that we already know, will surely increase their clock frequencies and even offer more graphics memory to increase its performance. From the arrival of these models, the new NVIDIA Volta will begin to arrive, although at the end of 2018.
Once they reach the market, they will do so together with the NVIDIA GeForce 30 family, which in turn will make use of the Volta GV110, GV102 and GV104 GPUsChips that will be the protagonists in the future NVIDIA GeForce GTX3080, 3070, 3060 and 3050. Without a doubt a huge qualitative leap since these processors will offer more powerful while being much more efficient than the current ones. In addition to this, it is expected that together with these new GPUs a new generation of GDDR6 and HBM2 memories that will offer greater bandwidths.