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Photo of a NVIDIA GPU Engineering Board fitted with GDDR6 Spotted
On Reddit a photo of what appears to be an engineering card from Nvidia surfaced. The interesting part is that if you zoom in at the memory modules, you'll notice it has Micron GDDR6 memory. Since no existing GPU can work with GDDR6, this has to be a next-gen board.
The photo is telling a lot, but then again little as this might not even be an engineering board, but rather a validation card to check out things. Interesting, however, is the placement of GDDR6 VRAM listed here, and of course that NVIDIA branded PCB.
Honestly, we can't say or tell if this is Turing whatsoever. I mean Nvidia could be working on a Pascal upgrade with GDDR6 right? This is a prototyping usually fitted with everything maxed out, like the three 8-pin power connectors, the 12-modules of Micron’s GDDR6 memory (indicating 12GB graphics memory). As you can see, there isn't any GPU present, the one that fits there is big though.
Being a dev board, it's not clear as to what this is and where the photo originates from, other than the post on reddit.
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#5560355 Posted on: 06/26/2018 08:33 AM
My thinking too. Might work with the time frame of a Nvidia launch later this year, BUT I could imagine them to even do refreshes with GDDR6 and slightly higher clocks, instead of something actually new.
My thinking too. Might work with the time frame of a Nvidia launch later this year, BUT I could imagine them to even do refreshes with GDDR6 and slightly higher clocks, instead of something actually new.
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#5560360 Posted on: 06/26/2018 09:24 AM
Yep. Whatever this is: simple refresh or brand new stuff, it smells good. Go for it Nvidia !
Yep. Whatever this is: simple refresh or brand new stuff, it smells good. Go for it Nvidia !
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#5560361 Posted on: 06/26/2018 09:25 AM
Thats a big one, 384 bit bus..
hopefully christmas will come early this year.
Thats a big one, 384 bit bus..
hopefully christmas will come early this year.
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#5560364 Posted on: 06/26/2018 10:25 AM
Thats a big one, 384 bit bus..
hopefully christmas will come early this year.
Yes, I noticed the seemingly 384-bit bus also.
This looks like one of those "Lightning" Cards or one of the Asus very high end models for Extreme Overclockers.
So probably no HBM for any of the Nvidia High end consumer cards, not that it will be a problem
edit : Also, That top connector looks like a single NVLink connector, where Volta GV100 has two.
ANother thing, is to look at the bigger picture, and the Box to the right. That looks like a picture of the Metal protector plate that protects the GPU.
The only problem with that, is usually, the protector has mounting holes all around the GPU socket, not just at the corners. Could it be a mount for a cooling plate, maybe to cool the Memory ?
I'm 99% certain this is a Pro card, or Prosumer, which probably has another 12 chips on the back for 24GB.
Thats a big one, 384 bit bus..
hopefully christmas will come early this year.
Yes, I noticed the seemingly 384-bit bus also.
This looks like one of those "Lightning" Cards or one of the Asus very high end models for Extreme Overclockers.
So probably no HBM for any of the Nvidia High end consumer cards, not that it will be a problem
edit : Also, That top connector looks like a single NVLink connector, where Volta GV100 has two.
ANother thing, is to look at the bigger picture, and the Box to the right. That looks like a picture of the Metal protector plate that protects the GPU.
The only problem with that, is usually, the protector has mounting holes all around the GPU socket, not just at the corners. Could it be a mount for a cooling plate, maybe to cool the Memory ?
I'm 99% certain this is a Pro card, or Prosumer, which probably has another 12 chips on the back for 24GB.
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Very interesting stuff, thank you Hilbert. In conjunction with DDR6 production ramping up, perhaps there is some degree of truth to all the recent hype.