Last bit I forgot to get a photo of because it's so incredibly faint, but here's the production date and "ES" etching into the package support and info band around the GPU:
![IMG_20190810_205615137_HDR.jpg IMG_20190810_205615137_HDR.jpg](https://tpucdn.com/forums/data/attachments/118/118549-95d0ffefbef1a1cb8b35e44393d707f0.jpg)
You would lose that wager, since I know this card came directly from AMD's Toronto campus and that it's one of two that were given out in 2016. It's an internal sample designed and built by AMD for AIBs to base their designs on, XFX opted to accept AMD's reference design and ship it as their own card.
The key things to look at:
![IMG_20190810_205615137_HDR.jpg IMG_20190810_205615137_HDR.jpg](https://tpucdn.com/forums/data/attachments/118/118549-95d0ffefbef1a1cb8b35e44393d707f0.jpg)
I don't believe AMD ever did a reference cooler for that card. The fury X had the AIO and the fury Nano had a reference cooler. The XFX and Sapphire cards have similar cooler to each other and the model you have, but I would wager a bet that Pine Group manufactured the card you have.
You would lose that wager, since I know this card came directly from AMD's Toronto campus and that it's one of two that were given out in 2016. It's an internal sample designed and built by AMD for AIBs to base their designs on, XFX opted to accept AMD's reference design and ship it as their own card.
The key things to look at:
- BIOS date and information string.
- PCB Revision and date.
- PCB testing and QC points/switches still intact.
- ASIC info (ES = Engineering Sample).
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