We’ve mentioned and discussed Nvidia’s Volta graphics processor many times already. You know, with the V for Vendetta Volta. Website mydrivers has gone into a bit more detail on the actual release, it might be announced already in Q3 under the GeForce Series 20 naming.

Historically Nvidia does release their new architecture GPUs closer towards the end of the year so that would be a match. What also helps is that the overall graphics card sales have dropped a bit, hence for Nvidia is makes all the more sense to release a new architecture.

So the latest rumor now is that NVIDIA GeForce Series 20 would be released in Q3 this year. It remains under a lot of speculation though as to how the GPU is fabbed, or better yet on what fabrication node. We’ve heard 16nm, 12n and 10nm but that last one seems to have been scrapped. Hence we think that Volta might be a GPU series fabbed on 16nm Finfet in the latest revision or at best TSMC’s new 12nm node.

Then as most of you know, Volta should get HBM2 memory. Here again things remain speculation, it seems HBM2 is a tough thing to fab in good quantity (look at VEGA for example). Considering Nvidia is incredible flexible in these things, honestly GDDR5X would not sound weird to us.

Back in February a GPU called GV100 was already spotted in AIDA, with hardware Device ID 1D81. It might very well be that Nvidia already has working engineering samples.





