Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti will be replaced in May - GTX 970 will be replaced in June

The hardware-oriented technology fair Computex 2016 in Taiwan will be one of the more interesting in many years. Just in time for the event, Intel is launching Broadwell-E with up to 10 cores for X99 motherboards, which is flanked by the new graphics architectures Polaris and Pascal from AMD and Nvidia respectively.

SweClockers has previously reported that Nvidia will release replacements for the Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980, and perhaps also the GTX 980 Ti, to Computex. Now a source reveals more concrete information about the launch plans, where the big news is that the GTX 980 Ti is confirmed to be replaced.

According to plans that Nvidia has begun communicating to external partners, the Geforce GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti will be replaced in May, with most pointing to the end of the month to steal the spotlight on Computex, which starts on 31 May. This will be followed in June by a graphics card that replaces the popular bestseller GTX 970.

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The data is strengthened not least by the fact that Nvidia and partner manufacturers have started to clean up their stocks on Geforce GTX 980 Ti, GTX 980 and GTX 970. Interestingly, manufacturers still have the opportunity to place new orders for Geforce GTX Titan X, despite the fact that it is similar to GTX 980 Ti to be replaced.

By all accounts, the trio will be replaced by two graphics cards, which are probably the previously mentioned Geforce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070. The duo will use the new memory standard GDDR5X, a further development of GDDR5 which offers 43 (10 Gbps) and 71 percent (12 Gbps) higher bandwidth than today’s GDDR5 memory of 7 Gbps, used by Geforce GTX 970, GTX 980 and GTX 980 Ti.

One detail that is still shrouded in obscurity is the choice of graphics circuit. However, it is likely that it is not about the recently announced monster circuit GP100, but instead it is about GP104. The latter will be a direct replacement for the GM204, which is used by the Geforce GTX 970 and GTX 980.

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It is also worth mentioning that there is still uncertainty about the name scheme for the new graphics cards. Rumor has it that Nvidia is abandoning the classic prefix GTX and instead combining the Roman numeral X (10) with the Arabic numeral system that is standard today. This would mean that the Geforce GTX 1080 may instead go by the name Geforce X80.