The GTX 1080 Ti, now nicely over a yr outdated.
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In June, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang mentioned his newest PC graphics playing cards were a long ways away — nevertheless it appears all however sure we’ll see them subsequent month at Gamescom 2018 in Germany. You know, now that Nvidia has officially confirmed it can throw a “GeForce Gaming Celebration” there on Monday, Aug. 20 at 10 a.m. PT.
It’s an occasion the place Nvidia is promising “spectacular surprises.”
CNET might be there in particular person, and you will additionally be capable to livestream the bulletins as they happen.
It’s thrilling, as a result of it is already been an unusually very long time since Nvidia launched a brand new line of graphics playing cards — the GeForce 10-series came out in 2016 — and since Nvidia’s final couple batches of graphics playing cards have been comparatively vital leaps ahead for gaming, VR, and GPU compute jobs like mining cryptocurrency.
In truth, a number of avid gamers had been (at the very least briefly) shut out of the 10-series graphics playing cards due to the cryptocurrency surge, which saw miners snapping up the GPUs at exhorbitant prices and each Nvidia and AMD promoting out.
Most of that has cooled off and costs have come down, however a number of avid gamers (together with me!) are eagerly saving our cash for the subsequent era.
