As far as NVIDIA is pleased with the results of the first months this year, we will be able to find out only in May, as this developer of graphics solutions uses a special schedule for publishing quarterly reports. Meanwhile, Chinese sources already announced in absentia the results of the first half of the year unsatisfactory for the market of game graphics cards, and therefore felt it necessary to declare NVIDIA's intentions to accelerate the announcement of next-generation graphics solutions.
There will be among them and the carrier of the Volta architecture, implying the use of memory HBM2. At least, by the third quarter, when AMD will already release Radeon RX Vega, NVIDIA will have every reason to take response. So far, in its official presentations, NVIDIA has indicated 2018 as the likely date for the announcement of graphics solutions with the Volta architecture.
It should be understood that the entire GeForce GTX 2xxx family, as its conditionally designated Chinese colleagues, can not consist of products equipped with only HBM2 memory, and new NVIDIA graphics cards with GDDR5 or GDDR5X memory will inevitably appear on the market. By the way, according to the same Chinese sources , on May 17 a new representative of the Pascal generation will appear on the market - a video card named GeForce GTX 1040 or GeForce GTX 1030, which will be located in the price range from $ 70 to $ 90. Perhaps this is the upcoming NVIDIA response to the output of Radeon RX 550 (Polaris 12).
No less important is the information provided by Chinese sources about NVIDIA's intentions to review the positioning of its video cards with the release of solutions of the GeForce GTX 2xxx family. The price-performance ratio will be revised in such a way that the average selling price will increase - this should help maintain NVIDIA profit rate.