Nvidia GTX 1180 Founders Edition looks set to rock PCs in July

By Matt Hanson

It looks like Nvidia’s first GTX 11-series graphics cards will be launching in the next few months, with reports from unnamed sources hinting that the GTX 1180 Founders Edition will arrive in July.

This is according to people who have talked to Tom’s Hardware, and if true, it will be around two years after Nvidia launched the GTX 1080 Founders Edition, which debuted Nvidia’s 16nm Pascal GPU architecture.

The first of the Nvidia Turing cards has been a long time coming, and according to Tom’s Hardware, the Founder’s Edition cards will come first, with third-party cards by the likes of MSI and Asus expected to follow in August or September. Apparently, laptop versions of the cards will come later in the year.

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According to anonymous sources, Nvidia will be delivering the GPU and memory to its partners around June 15, pointing to a July launch for the Founder’s Edition.

As well as launching the GTX 1180, there’s also likely to be a GTX 1170 Founder’s Edition as well, with the GTX 1180 being the flagship, and the GTX 1170 being a more affordable GPU.

This follows rumors that suggest that the GeForce GTX 1180 could be faster …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components