By Darren Allan
Previous speculation has pointed to Nvidia being set to launch its next-gen graphics cards later this month, but a new rumor is claiming that this won’t happen – and indeed we may not see a hard launch (i.e. products actually becoming available) until July, or possibly even later.
This comes from Tom’s Hardware, which cites ‘multiple independent sources’ in the industry saying that the successor to Nvidia’s current Pascal-based GeForce cards won’t get a full reveal at Nvidia’s Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) as previously rumored, or indeed GDC (the Game Developers Conference).
What may happen – although even this is far from a sure matter – is that there might be a brief teaser reveal, or ‘appetizer’ as Tom’s describes it. So likely something pretty airy just pointing to the existence of the new cards. Whatever it is, we will be at GDC later this month (the conference kicks off on March 19) to witness it.
Of course, this is still just another rumor, but it certainly makes sense in some respects. Particularly considering the current climate in which buying a graphics card is a tricky and unnecessarily expensive matter, thanks to a combination of extra demand …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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