Now I feel relieved. Great analysis about time and how it's very contextual and subjective hehe.

And also that Huang has to say like he did so the sales of the 1000-series don't hault. It wouldn't be very smart to say "it's a short time from now" lol

Btw JEMC it says in your profile that you own a 1070. I member that you bought a 970 only about 1.5-2 years ago, and a bit later we had a discussion in the PC thread about how you lacked money because of your mom and you needing to go to the dentist.

How come you decided to upgrade from 970 to a 1070 in a gaming lull (meaning that games aren't very demanding to run in 1080p) and when did you do it?

Well, I didn't get a 970. I thought about upgrading my trusty 5850 to meet (and exceed) the min. specs of most games this gen, and the 970 looked to be a great choice, but then the 3.5+0.5GB VRAM thing was discovered. I wasn't pleased at all with that and decided to wait for something better, a decision that also gave me the opportunity to save a bit more cash.

Then, in 2016, the fan of my 5850 started to fail, making so much noise that it was unbearable, so I couldn't delay the purchase anymore. Thankfully, Black Friday was just a few days away, so I waited a little bit and was able to get my actual 1070 for something around 300 €. A bargain given what happened later with the mining craze.

Oh, what a lucky fan failure.

I'm still stuck with a 290 because of the miners (and AMD disappointments forcing me to jump ship). An 1180 would be perfect, but only if there's no competition from miners.

It was indeed. And being able to grab a 1070, where the rest of the year I could have only gone with a RX 480 or a 1060 was great.

AMD's situation when it comes to their GPUs is quite sad. Unless you're very brand loyal, Nvidia has become the go to route, and the mining craze didn't help either .

I was lucky when I jumped on the RX580. Mining kicked in and the price went from $380 AUD to $800 AUD at one point. Even now that GPU is still at $500.
Picked up a second RX 580 for Crossfire from a swap-meet for $250.

Vega 56 and Vega 64 is coming down in price here... And Vega refresh isn't far away, so might have a reason to upgrade my GPU's soon.

Between Vega 56 and Vega 64, only the former is worth it. Vega 64 is slower, more power hungry and more expensive than a GTX 1080.

Vega 7nm is coming, but it will first launch for professional products, so we may have to wait until the very end of the year if not next year to have them in gaming cards.

I'm not sure if anyone still interested in this upcoming gpu series but just wanna give a quick summary of all the rumors:

The 11 series will be announced/released july 30 according to hardware unboxed/gamers meld. We also had an very early rumor by tomshardware saying the same month.

There has been some recent talk about inventory issues for Nvidia, I believe there is some truth to it but probably a non-issue as hardware unboxed and gamers meld information is still very recent.

As for the architecture, I expect geforce 1180 to be 40% more energy efficient than pascal and have 10% more performance than 1080 ti. Price will be between 650-700$ and 8GB of ram.