Mystery NVIDIA graphics card?

[TOMPPIX]

Though not the most trustworthy source on the web, Chinese mydrivers has posted a series of spy photo's (some blurred with a mosaic) showing what could be a new Flagship Nvidia graphics card. The sample obviously is an engineering product and shows codename 1421 with a A1 stepping build in 2014 week 21 (19-25 May). The card seems to be holding 2x8 1GB memory chips carrying 16GB of graphics memory, eight ICs on each side of the PCB.

 

The power connectors are a bit shocking to say at the least, it has one 8-pin and two 6-pin PCIe PEG power headers. Though with engineering samples it not unusual to have extra connectors. What kind of GPU is on board that chip remains a mystery, the Kepler followup on Maxwell architecture?

 

 

 

 

 

SOURCE http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/mystery_nvidia_graphics_card_spy_photos_surface.html

http://news.mydrivers.com/1/310/310672.htm

[Katsu-K1L]

Probably a Chinese version of Nvidia called Nadia or something lol but this seems interesting

[CtW]

Is this some crazy card meant for overclocking and driving multiple 4k displays? or has Nvidia gone down the AMD road of producing cards that use a royal fuck-ton of power?

[Liam-McShane]

Interesting to see the SLI fingers are in the old location.

[Eroda]

16gb of graphics memory! workstation card maybe

[Sauron]

Look at the position of the gpu, it's very off centered, which is very unusual. Also, where does it say that those are 1gb memory banks? They could very well be 256mb.

[onionring]

Is this some crazy card meant for overclocking and driving multiple 4k displays? or has Nvidia gone down the AMD road of producing cards that use a royal fuck-ton of power?

it s a production sample, putting more power connectors(even if they re not needed) cost nothing compared to the cost of the tests they ll do to the card. So they re better to overbuild part of the card to eliminate variables.

[Raudi_]

Memory Banks are 128mbx32 7.0GBps and thats just from a quick google search.

[Prokart2000]

nice

 

sorry NOICE

[harrynowl]

Look at the position of the gpu, it's very off centered, which is very unusual. Also, where does it say that those are 1gb memory banks? They could very well be 256mb.

Looking at Hynix' product sheets it's a 32 bank 128 (4GB?) configuration with 7Gbps of bandwidth

 

http://www.electronicsdatasheets.com/pdf-datasheets/sk-hynix/h5gq4h24mfrr2c/

 

search for "H5GQ4H24MFR"

 

But that die looks quite small, it might just be a massive CUDA accelerator (green PCB ftw) designed for raw compute performance unlike Kepler- which actually has lower compute performance than Fermi because they removed a lot of the execution stages etc to cut power consumption. This would have to be a very pre-production and unfinished PCB.

[Karumu]

i highly doubt this is going to be a GTX card

[Priller]

Why would they use 8+6+6 instead of just 2 8 pins. Its very odd.

 

Usually each chip for Vram is half a GB. So a 4GB Vram card maybe.

[brownninja97]

the sli fingers make me think this isnt legit.

[©D0n7H8M3™®]

16gb of graphics memory! workstation card maybe

2 titan-z?

[ShiverMePenguins]

fake, thats an old ass quadro card.

[martinrox1568]

I feel like this is just some unreleased, old prototype that someone found laying around and took a photo. Looks WAY too "old" to be meainingful

[Opsilon]

Wait, didn't Nvidia say that Maxwell will have an ARM co-processor, if so is it on the die, it does not look that much bigger than the last gen? and is the extra power designed for that? ( i kinda doubt it since ARM processors use less power, but still )

 

This is very strange, i really hope the next gen of cards will not be power hogs, i have a 650 W PSU with 2 8+2 PCIe connectors, i know i can use a molex adapter, but not in he mood for buying more power...

[Equlix]

Look at the position of the gpu, it's very off centered, which is very unusual. Also, where does it say that those are 1gb memory banks? They could very well be 256mb.

Why would they waste memory chips and space on the back of the card along with increasing failure rates just for 256mb chips. 512 and 1gb are safe assumptions to me.

[Sauron]

 

I just found this. Doesn't the position of the gpu nd memory remind you of anything?

[DildorTheDecent]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36496575
http://videocardz.com/50980/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-pictured

They think it is the GM204 line of GPUs with 4-8GB of VRAM. I mean the GPU die does have the A1 stepping on it so things are getting pretty close.

Every bodies favorite: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-maxwell-engineering-sample-analysis-features-8-gb-gddr5-memory-2nd-generation-gm2-core/

[ChrisxIxCross]

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Day by day we are slowly getting closer to the next major release of next generation GPU's. Today all new photos of an GTX 880 Engineering sample leaked featuring the beastly GM210 chip the successor to the current GK110. 

The photos were provided by chinese website GamerSky, obviously we dont know for sure if these photos are indeed what they claim to be, but its the most info about High End Maxwell we've gotten to date. 

The array of photos shows the GPU codename 1421A1, meaning the chips were manufactured in the 21st week of this year which was May. This makes sense because May is when TSMC starting taping out the fabs for 20nm gpus. This prototype is equipped with a whopping 8GB of SKHynix ram which again aligns with the earlier GTX 880 leaks claiming the same thing. Such a massive amount was made possible due to all new dual sided memory modules. As for speed the memory will run at 7ghz. Reference will most likely launch with 4GB while aftermarket cards should come with 8GB, which is nothing new, or 8GB could be kept exclusive to the Titan variant which I really hope does not happen again. The last interesting bit is that the engineering sample comes with 3 power connectors (6+6+8pin). This does not align with the power Maxwell efficiency breakthroughs at all and is likely only a feature on the prototype card. Either way the maximum power draw should not exceed 375w, which again will never happen. Next we can still see SLI fingers on top, meaning Nvidia isnt planning on going with XDMA pci express based multi gpu technology just yet. Lastly its interesting what is hidden in the pixelated areas of the power delivery section. Hidden project denver ARM cores maybe? ;P  

 

Finally the guys over at GamerSky are claiming that we will not see this beast no earlier than Q2 of 2015. One more thing in case you're wondering, the final revision will not be green. Almost every Nvidia engineering sample just has a green circuit board. 

 

source: http://videocardz.com/50980/nvidia-geforce-gtx-880-pictured

 

Update: Before you say OMG REPOST i am aware of this  http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/174891-mystery-nvidia-graphics-card/ This DOES not count and is just plain lazy and goes and against forum guidelines. 

 

 

 

[WinNut]

All dem power connectors...

[qwertywarrior]

looks legit

 

 

 

 

 

"the guys over at GamerSky are claiming that we will not see this beast no earlier than Q2 of 2015."

 

guess im going with the 290XT

me hoping for DP 1.3 hdmi 2.0

[LukaP]

interesting. the power connectors probably there to ensure stability

[IG-88]

repost

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/174891-mystery-nvidia-graphics-card/