FatherMurphy
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We were told GDDR5X enters mass production in the summer. We're still in spring.
Either the timetable moved ahead significantly and no one told us, or NVidia and partners don't have chips to put on the boards yet, or at least don't have them in meaningful numbers.
Don't have time to pull the quote, but Micron announced mass production/revenue by the end of their fiscal quarter ending early May, I believe. So, it appears GDDR5X will be available in volume shortly. If Nvidia launches Pascal with GDDR5X at Computex, as speculated, then it probably is going to use some risk production samples. There will probably be shortages of any chip with GDDR5X for a month or two after that.
The speculation is that only the 1080 will use GDDR5X and the 1070 will use vanilla GDDR5. The 1080 (knowing Nvidia) will be priced with a premium, resulting in it being a lower volume card than 1070.
I think the "Order of 10" thing is neat, but if Nvidia is suggesting that Pascal is 10x faster than Maxwell, I'm skeptical to say the least. Curious to see what weird metric they use (like the "CEO Math" JH referenced last year) to arrive at that figure, if that's the case.