Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

[孙义飞]

ZOTAC GTS250X2

 

[pavle]

I have a 65nm GTX260 with all 240 shaders enabled. It is from what I can tell an engineering sample, includes display port out.
I also have a few GTX280 ES, one with prototype cooler and another with display port out...

It has specs of the GTX 275, which I have of Gainward variety - good card for winter days (high idle).

 

[Animekenji]

I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme, with mild bumps to core and memory clocks over a regular 6800 Ultra. . There was a lottery for a chance to buy them, and 165 were available. I'm not one of the lucky lottery winners, I bought it on ebay several years later.

 

[AusWolf]

I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme, with mild bumps to core and memory clocks over a regular 6800 Ultra. . There was a lottery for a chance to buy them, and 165 were available. I'm not one of the lucky lottery winners, I bought it on ebay several years later.

Nice catch! Pictures please!

That era of PC hardware brings back fond memories.

 

[The hardware collector]

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Nice! Can we say it's bsically a 9800 GX2?

 

[Darthgrey]

Nice! Can we say it's bsically a 9800 GX2?

Better actually because of normal cooling system. I have the same card in my collection, I think it was made 999 of them. Funny thing - it was no thermal paste on GPU's when I disaasembled my card and even no traces on heat sink, they were like new.

 

[Spicer1104]

a few gtx 480 core 512s

 

[mxthunder]

damn! Nice!! where did you find those? the VRM's look different too. Not my pictures, but reminds me of this prototype 480 I saved the pics of a long time back:

 

[Fouquin]

a few gtx 480 core 512s

Huh, those are A3 heatsinks. They hadn't moved to that design until 2010. Did your boards not come with the original coolers?

If you want to complete the look with the correct LED shrouds, PM me. I have some.

 

[孙义飞]

GTX480 Engineering samples

 

[孙义飞]

HD5970 Engineering samples

 

[Darthgrey]

ATI Radeon HD5970 Engineering Sample. Bought it on ebay as "for parts or not working", but it was fixed by my good friend and now it works fine:



Both GPU's are ok, crossfire works:



Funny thing: after card was delivered I disassembled it to clean from the dust and to apply new thermal paste on GPU's and I found that stock memory pads still had plastic film on them...



Second card is GeForce GTX480 Engineering Sample, but this one has only 480SP and it has some issues with GPU or memory: there are some artifacts on the screen, so I did not run any tests. Hope I will be able to find a 512SP version sooner or later.

 

[mxthunder]

Really jealous of those gtx480 ESs!

 

[孙义飞]

HD6990 ES

 

[Darthgrey]

ATI Radeon 2900XTX Rev21:

 

[lexluthermiester]

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HD6990 ES
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Needs a little TLC, but nice find!

 

[Darthgrey]

Feast of Geforce GTX 780:




So, what we have here: first is Geforce GTX780 Qualification sample/Engineering sample:



Looks and acts like usual Geforce GTX 780, fully working condition.

Spoiler: Geforce GTX 780 ES/QS Benchmarks:

Next one is GTX780 Ti Qualification sample/Engineering sample:

Also works fine, passed all benchmarks without any issues:

Spoiler: Geforce GTX 780 TI ES/QS Benchmarks:

Last card is Geforce GTX 780 6Gb Qualification sample/Engineering sample:



This one look like Nvidia Quadro K6000, but instead of 12Gb of memory it has only 6Gb:

Also GPU configuration is different: shader count is like in GTX TITAN, actually all is like in GTX TITAN, but all utilities say that it's Geforce GTX 780 6Gb, maybe from the very beginning Nvidia was planning to produce it like GTX 780 and later on decided to name it as TITAN and sell for 1000$.

Spoiler: Geforce GTX 780 6Gb ES/QS Benchmarks:

Also I attached original BIOS images if somebody needs them.

 

[las]

Had a PowerVR 4MB GPU at some point. Voodoo alternative IIRC.

Matrox Maybe?

I remember playing Unreal on this thing. Unreal Tournament from 1999 Probably. Facing Worlds anyone?

 

[孙义飞]

GTX1070 ES

 

[孙义飞]

HD6850 ES

 

[mxthunder]

Feast of Geforce GTX 780:

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So, what we have here: first is Geforce GTX780 Qualification sample/Engineering sample:

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Looks and acts like usual Geforce GTX 780, fully working condition.

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Spoiler: Geforce GTX 780 ES/QS Benchmarks:

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Next one is GTX780 Ti Qualification sample/Engineering sample:

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Also works fine, passed all benchmarks without any issues:

Spoiler: Geforce GTX 780 TI ES/QS Benchmarks:

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Last card is Geforce GTX 780 6Gb Qualification sample/Engineering sample:



This one look like Nvidia Quadro K6000, but instead of 12Gb of memory it has only 6Gb:



Also GPU configuration is different: shader count is like in GTX TITAN, actually all is like in GTX TITAN, but all utilities say that it's Geforce GTX 780 6Gb, maybe from the very beginning Nvidia was planning to produce it like GTX 780 and later on decided to name it as TITAN and sell for 1000$.


Also I attached original BIOS images if somebody needs them.

Nice! Very interesting how that 780 has the core count and memory config of original titan. Shows they didnt really know what they wanted to release at that time.

 

[Darthgrey]

Some Pascal ES/QS videocards:



Geforce GTX 1060 3Gb FE ES/QS, GTX 1060 6Gb FE ES/QS, GTX 1070 FE ES/QS. As far as I know there was no official Founders version of 3Gb card.

Spoiler: Some Benchmarks

Next one is Geforce GTX 1060 Gb, ES/QS, looks and acts like usual GTX 1060:

Spoiler: Some Benchmarks

Last one is Geforce GTX 1070 Founders Edition Engineering sample with full metal cooling system:

Specs are exactly the same as retail version have.

Spoiler: Some Benchmarks

Also I attached original BIOS files if somebody need them.

 

[孙义飞]

HD4890ES

 

[andylaidb9]

GALAX RTX 4060 Ti 无双(Wusou) MAX 16GB
Most powerful single slot graphics card for gaming currently existed

 

[lexluthermiester]

GALAX RTX 4060 Ti 无双(Wusou) MAX 16GB
Most powerful single slot graphics card for gaming currently existed
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What are noise levels like?

EDIT: Not sure why people are laughing. I'm serious! I have a SFF system and am thinking strongly about one of these cards for it...