In what’s in all probability an try and shift as many graphics playing cards as attainable earlier than Nvidia’s Turing playing cards arrive, Nvidia’s UK store and various companions at the moment are bundling in free Kingston SSDs with plenty of GTX 10-series graphics playing cards. Here’s what’s on supply.
The SSDs in query are Kingston’s 120GB and 240GB A400 2.5in drives, which usually go for round £27 and £42 respectively. They’re not the quickest SSDs on the planet – there are significantly better ones to be present in our best gaming SSD rankings, for example – however contemplating how excessive graphics card prices have been up till fairly lately, I’d slightly take a free SSD over a free copy of The Crew 2 any day.
At the second, the supply’s solely out there on a choose vary of third-party GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1060 playing cards from EVGA and MSI, however that’s nonetheless greater than sufficient for beautiful, clean 1080p and 1440p sport enjoying alike – simply take a look at our best graphics card line-up in case you don’t consider me.
Of course, shopping for a brand new graphics card now might appear to be a barely foolish thought when Nvidia’s new Turing playing cards are allegedly simply across the nook – regardless of what Nvidia’s CEO says about them not being right here for “a long time“. Indeed, contemporary information has lately surfaced that we might even see Nvidia’s hotly-rumoured GTX 1180 make its first look at this 12 months’s Gamescom someday round August 20, which is fairly rattling quickly.
According to a leaked electronic mail obtained by Gamer Meld, Nvidia’s new graphics playing cards are apparently launching on the next dates:
– August 30 for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1180
– September 30 for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1170 and one thing known as the GTX 1180+
– October 30 for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1160
The one factor we nonetheless don’t know is how a lot these new playing cards will price, which is able to seemingly play an enormous position in deciding whether or not it’s price plumping for these new, presumably extra highly effective GPUs, or just getting a GTX 10-series on the relative low cost. Needless to say, all eyes can be firmly mounted on Nvidia’s exercise at Gamescom for any actual concrete information, however in case you don’t fancy ready till then to get a brand new graphics card, at the very least you’ll be able to nab your self some free storage within the course of proper now.
