No Volta For Gamers This Holiday Season

Gamers who are on the fence about buying one of the new AMD Vega GPUs, existing NVIDIA parts, or holding out for a gaming version of the Volta architecture have a while to wait for Volta. No release date has been announced by NVIDIA at this time, but CEO jensen Huang has poured cold water on gamers’ hopes. Volta won’t be here in time for the Holiday season 2017.

Huang said during an earnings call reports PCGamer, “Volta for gaming, we haven’t announced anything. And all I can say is that our pipeline is filled with some exciting new toys for the gamers, and we have some really exciting new technology to offer them in the pipeline. But for the holiday season for the foreseeable future, I think Pascal is just unbeatable.”

“It’s just the best thing out there. And everybody who’s looking forward to playing Call of Duty or Destiny 2, if they don’t already have one, should run out and get themselves a Pascal.”

In other words, Pascal is the GPU that will be available for Christmas shopping this year indicating Volta won’t land until sometime in 2018. Huang is also throwing a bit of mud at AMD’s Vega GPUs and he has a point, we mentioned yesterday that Vega parts were behind NVIDIA in performance in many categories. The official word out of NIDIA for the Volta being put off a bit for gamers is cost. The firm says those GPUs are costly to design and produce with Huang estimating the GPUs cost “several hundred dollars to close to $1,000” to manufacture.