Mystery NVIDIA graphics card spy photo's surface

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Though not the most trustworthy source on the web, Chinese my drivers 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 memory chips carrying 8 or 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.

The memory ICs from SK Hynix is tagged as H5GQ4H24MFR-R2C, these are 7000 MHz (effective data-rate) chips. What kind of GPU is on board that chip remains a mystery, the Kepler followup on Maxwell architecture ? Well, yeah it has to be doesn't it ? Are we looking at the early building block of the GeForce GTX 880 ? Anyway I wish I could tell you a little more, but for now, here are the photo's. 

This could be Nvidia pending flagship graphics card - don't ya hate the blurry Mosaic ?

GPU 

Backside of the PCB

8+6+6 PCI PEG power headers

SK Hynic GDDR5 memory

Mystery NVIDIA graphics card spy photo's surface


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