GeForce GTX 880 ES Intercepted En Route Testing Lab, Features 8 GB Memory?

[digitalnav]

 

Would be great to see 8GB cards finally.

 

An engineering sample (ES) of the GeForce GTX 880 was intercepted on its way from a factory in China, to NVIDIA's development center in India, where it will probably undergo testing and further development. The shipping manifest of the courier ferrying NVIDIA's precious package was sniffed out by the Chinese press. NVIDIA was rather descriptive about the ES, in its shipping declaration. Buzzwords include "GM204" and "8 GB GDDR5," hinting at what could two of the most important items on its specs sheet. GM204 is a successor of GK104, and is rumored to feature 3,200 CUDA cores, among other things, including a 256-bit wide memory bus. If NVIDIA is cramming 8 GB onto the card, it must be using some very high density memory chips. The manifest also declares its market value at around 47,000 Indian Rupees. It may convert to US $780, but adding all taxes and local markups, 47,000 INR is usually where $500-ish graphics cards end up in the Indian market. The R9 290X, for example, is going for that much.

 

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/200505/geforce-gtx-880-es-intercepted-en-route-testing-lab-features-8-gb-memory.html

[Bluejay0]

256-bit with not 4 but 8 gigs? THE HELL IS THIS?!?!

[ViruZ_HUN]

 

Would be great to see 8GB cards finally.

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/200505/geforce-gtx-880-es-intercepted-en-route-testing-lab-features-8-gb-memory.html

So GTX 880 is 8 GB now?

 

and for 500ish, thats a cheap high end 4K video card:D

 

Now i need the release date:DD

[ViruZ_HUN]

256-bit with not 4 but 8 gigs? THE HELL IS THIS?!?!

Welcome to Nvidia

[ivhyn]

So GTX 880 is 8 GB now?

 

and for 500ish, thats a cheap high end 4K video card:D

 

Now i need the release date:DD

With a 256bit bus? hell no.

[MrYuriy]

This is dark voodoo.

I refuse to believe this!

Unless they send an ES to me, then I'll rephrase.

[qwertywarrior]

256-bit with not 4 but 8 gigs? THE HELL IS THIS?!?!

 

 

Welcome to Nvidia

 

 

With a 256bit bus? hell no.

256bit is only a rumor and there is no way its true

[minimalist]

For the most part, the value of things is always documented as less when shipping.  It saves you money that way.

[Jerakl]

If this is true, once it's released my 780 is getting replaced.

[FloRolf]

Surround 4k, yayayayayayay

[SkilledRebuilds]

If this is true, once it's released my 780 is getting replaced.

That picture is impacting my brain... a quiet lol was had.

[nuclear465]

Cool... But it's better to wait for the official specs from Nvidia.

[LukaP]

i call BS on the CUDA count, no way they got 3.2K cores onto the die without a nodeshrink. i call BS on 256bit bus, they are known for the narrow bus - high vram speed, but this is just ridiculous. 

[Morpheus]

 

 

Would be great to see 8GB cards finally.

 

 

why? not like we need 8gb...

[Misanthrope]

That's interesting but I was too distracted by the water cooled plunger. I can't say I ever used a plunger so intensively that I needed active cooling, let alone water cooling.

[Misanthrope]

why? not like we need 8gb...

 

Actually the way things are going you might need 8gb video ram before you need 16gb of system ram. Well not really but wouldn't that be something? A computer that basically becomes even more of a support system for the GPU. Maybe even going with a modular GPU solution on a dual case in the future: half the case for the PC and the other half for a GPU motherboard and your choice of GPU processor and gddr memory, and your selection of cooling

[othertomperson]

why? not like we need 8gb...

 

How much would 4K surround need?

[Anthony10]

no way the 256bit bus is true...

on the other hand... WE NOW HAVE WATER COOLED PLUNGERS!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!

[matin94]

wat. 256bit bus, they're losing the plot. if this is true of course.

[Misanthrope]

How much would 4K surround need?

 

To play devil's advocate (I seem to be doing that a lot lately, I sure hope the devil sends me a big fat check for legal fees soon) even if the 880 was twice as fast as the current 780ti (which would be beyond everybody's wildest dreams, it will more likely be the usual 15-25% increase) I don't think it would be able to drive anything at 12k on a multiple 4k monitor set up. It would be like people putting 4 or 6gb of ram on a 760: it would be good for exactly 1 game experience: A heavily modded old game like Skyrim.

[The_Strict_Nein]

It's this 256 bus that makes me instantly disbelieve any rumour about any 800 series. I know Nvidia can make mistakes. But until they officially announce I will not believe they are stupid enough to put a 256 bit bus on 8GB of RAM without like 20000 MHz on the VRAM

[othertomperson]

To play devil's advocate (I seem to be doing that a lot lately, I sure hope the devil sends me a big fat check for legal fees soon) even if the 880 was twice as fast as the current 780ti (which would be beyond everybody's wildest dreams, it will more likely be the usual 15-25% increase) I don't think it would be able to drive anything at 12k on a multiple 4k monitor set up. It would be like people putting 4 or 6gb of ram on a 760: it would be good for exactly 1 game experience: A heavily modded old game like Skyrim.

 

Well when I say 4K surround I'm ignoring the GPU's actual processing power. Partly because it would be complete guesswork to try and judge, and partly because some where at some point someone's going to stick four of these in a rig and try it and they'll still need enough ram each.

[Misanthrope]

Well when I say 4K surround I'm ignoring the GPU's actual processing power. Partly because it would be complete guesswork to try and judge, and partly because some where at some point someone's going to stick four of these in a rig and try it and they'll still need enough ram each.

 

True, but like you say each card would have it's own memory so each individual card shouldn't need more than what it's processor can actually leverage which I imagine would be nothing over 4 or maybe 6gb.

Incidentally, this would not be an issue if we could get my proposed modular GPU system: You buy a big case (or a separate one) and you can put whatever amount of gddr modules you need and 1, 2 or more GPUs in your GPU motherboard. Seriously why are we not doing that?

[One Who Craves Souls]

I'll just wait and see.

[nj4ck]

this looks interesting, I'm assuming th 256bit memory bus is BS though, that wouldn't make sense at all with 8GB of vram.