Originally Posted by
Shinzai
The Pascal based cards will be arriving Q1-Q2 next year. The reason why it's worth waiting is that both they and AMD's Arctic Island cards will be around a 60%~ speed increase over existing cards, with overall far better DX12 functionality
Their pricing will be the same as Nvidia's existing ranges, with perhaps, at most, a $100 or $200 increase on the standard price tags to attribute for the amount of HBM in play.
So while I know there's always something new on the horizion, next years cards should be the first /actual/ game-changers in some time. The 980 and 970 will be relegated to budget cards, most likely being rebranded and dropped in price, to restate their new positions. The first Pascal card that drops will almost definitely be the Titan equivalent, along the $1000~1500 price range, with GP chipset variants that will cover the high-mid range cards. Then later in the year, they'll release the 980Ti equivalent as well as a budget equivalent, just to fuck with AMD's launches. This is after all pretty much Nvidia's modus operandi.