It Doesn’t Feel Like NVIDIA Plans To Release A New GeForce Series This Summer

If NVIDIA’s beloved co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has a keynote to deliver to a room full of gamers, but has little gaming stuff to relay, you can bet on one thing: those gamers are going to ask about it. At Huang’s annual Computex showing, the man in charge talked a bit about the Max-Q design, which allows vendors to cram beefy GPUs inside of sleek form-factor notebooks. The first notebooks on the market were solid, but the latest ones have been truly built from the ground up with Max-Q in mind.

To this particular Computex audience, that wasn’t enough. During a question-and-answer period, Jensen had to dodge GeForce questions left and right. As soon as he shot down one, another would be flung right back at him. It became a bit of a joke, with Jensen constantly assuring the audience that we’d all be invited to the “party” whenever that next GeForce does get here.

NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang deflecting a GeForce question with the power of Volta

Naturally, this means that a new GeForce is right around the corner. OK, I’m joking. What it actually means it that a new GeForce is likely months off. Based on Jensen’s wording, it seems extremely unlikely that a new GeForce series is going to be announced this month. Or next. And with the ProViz-focused SIGGRAPH taking place in August, I wouldn’t expect a new GeForce series to be announced until at least September.

To be absolutely clear, I am basing that on nothing more than what I’ve said here. I don’t personally have any definitive proof of anything, which is about the same as most rumor sites, but September or October seems like a safe bet to me, because I can’t really see a major launch happening later than that (unless NVIDIA wants to spite me). September or October happens well before the holiday season, and NVIDIA has launched GPUs in that time-frame before (eg: the Maxwell-based GTX 900 series).

It’s not even certain if NVIDIA is going to unveil new Quadro hardware at August’s SIGGRAPH, but I’m hoping that will be the case. What we do know is that Hot Chip’s 30, which takes place a couple of weeks before SIGGRAPH, has a talk in store that’s going to talk about the “next GeForce“. That alone should tell us it’s not going to get here this or next month.

We’ll see what happens. All we can do is wait and see…

If you want to see what NVIDIA is definitively working on, check out our post looking at the ISAAC robotics platform.