If anything, Nvidia is going to hold out until AMD releases their new cards before releasing the new series. They wouldn’t just do architecture refining like AMD has been, especially given the time and hype for Ampere/Volta and tensor cores. I have a good feeling that they might not have tensor cores (or at least not in a significant amount) for their non-Titan and they may get a replacement for the Titan V at a lower cost. But that’s all hypothetical not knowing what’s actually going on, but with them showing off and raving about Ray Tracing which looks VERY promising. Also that’s not entirely true. The Titan V (although $3000 and not primarily directed at gaming) is a great card for gaming with Ray tracing, but the rest of released Volta is more costly workstation crap. Tesla and Quadro aren’t architectures, they are series, Volta is an architecture and could quite easily be used for the gaming line-up although it’s been hinted many times that it won’t happen. It really depends on the efficiency difference of Ampere and its compatibility with Tensor Cores. So yes it is likely that there will be separate architecture for the gaming side, but the Titan V shows promise for the gaming line-up. And if based off of historical speculation, the new series will be an awesome release, with the supposed 1180 destroying the 1080Ti for performance. There are some spec sheets that aren’t 100% confirmed for the new cards but we can likely bet that Nvidia isn’t going to make a stupid decision like non-competitive GPU’s knowing that AMD has the POTENTIAL for a comeback in the GPU market, making that risk unwise and they probably know that already. Like I said, either they’ll release the cards late or they’ll be as competitive as ever. Unlike AMD, Nvidia doesn’t need to rush for 2 reasons. They’re likely already developing the architecture and product line beyond the series that hasn’t come out yet,
