Nvidia surprised everyone with the release of its first Volta graphics card towards the end of 2017, called the Titan V. Hailed as the most powerful graphics card ever released, it wasn't actually that much powerful than the Titan X or 1080Ti, but it was enough of a leap to get tongues wagging. The fact that it was aimed more at datacenter and AI work too, means that any consumer cards using the same technology will likely be far better optimized for 3D and gaming benchmarks.
Well, we won't have long to find out if that's the case now, it seems, as Reuters picked up a tip during a recent Nvidia earnings call, that the company's consumer-facing Volta cards could be unveiled as soon as next month.
"Analysts also say Nvidia’s competitive advantage is only likely to increase when it moves its Volta chip architecture, launched last year and only currently present in data-center GPUs, into gaming chips later this year," .
Codenamed Turing, named after the famous English computer scientist, Alan Turing, the cards are expected to be the most powerful consumer graphics cards ever released.
Although next month's unveiling doesn't necessarily guarantee a release date for us in any capacity, it does hint at one. With the Games Developers Conference coming up in that month and GTC shortly after that, it would make sense for the unveiling to happen and a launch to follow a couple of weeks' later.
