There’s a steady ~2 year cadence at which new GPU families are introduced. The 10 series was nothing out of the ordinary. Kepler - Maxwell: 28 months Maxwell

There’s a steady ~2 year cadence at which new GPU families are introduced. The 10 series was nothing out of the ordinary. Kepler - Maxwell: 28 months Maxwell - Pascal: 20 months Pascal - Turing: 25 months Turing - Ampere: ?, but rumors have if for sometime September, so ~25 months And Nvidia has never been in need of cash. The crypto boom was just a nice extra boost, followed by a nasty bust. One could very argue that the crypto boom was a net negative.