Monday, May 5th 2014
GeForce GTX 880 ES Intercepted En Route Testing Lab, Features 8 GB Memory?
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.
Sources:
ChipHell, VideoCardz
66 Comments on GeForce GTX 880 ES Intercepted En Route Testing Lab, Features 8 GB Memory?
(lel 'DAT TYPO in the shipping manifest)
It's true that there's no tesla with single gk104 but tesla k10 has 2 of them.
Then you have the 680's and 770's with double the memory 4gb on the 256bit bus, it simply does not work by the time the rez gets high enough to use that extra memory the GPU is not strong enough to matter.
The only time is even remotely worth while is if your going two and three way SLI at very high resolution.
www.zauba.com/import-gm204-hs-code.html
Dual GPU.
Everything in that list hints at it.
:lovetpu: I dunno WTF I am talking about.
People seem to be quick to forget it launched being both cheaper and faster than the competition:
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_680/1.html
680 launched 03/2012 at $500
Nvidia saw the gk104 was enough to battle the 7970 and decided to overcharge for mid range. Then came the 780, 780ti, 780 Black, arguably the high range/flagships.
/shrug