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I agree with placing large pictures in a spoiler, or reduce their size.
 
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Both of them were tapped and were prototypes so yes they do exist, they just were never released!
Slightly seconding the potential of the 4090ti seeing as the lad a few pages back managed to get an EVGA shroud with the branding. Sure they probably just made it ahead of time but still I'm sure said GPU exists in some capacity.
 
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Both of them were tapped and were prototypes so yes they do exist, they just were never released!
Um...
Prototypes may have been made, but no engineering or certification samples exist, according to NVidia.
Yup, that's what I said..

But hey, photo's or it didn't happen, eh?

I agree with placing large pictures in a spoiler, or reduce their size.
Why? The whole point of this thread is nice big photos to view. Maybe I'm a bit Tungsten on this but I don't see the problem nor understand the complaint..
 
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I would put Engineering Samples in the same boat as prototypes personally. Different stages of development of course. I would like to see photos of a 4090ti as well though, especially given those weird cooler photos that were going around.
 
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I would put Engineering Samples in the same boat as prototypes personally.
But they're not. As with most companies, including NVidia, they have the R&D division which develops the product to be made. When they having all the main features worked it, it's gets passed to the engineering division for at the details, finer points & kinks to be worked out, tested with fully built samples and finally readied for manufacturing. R&D samples are rarely fully build cards, they're mostly test run dies purpose made for making sure the desired features will play nice together. The engineering division then makes sure it can be made into an actual viable product.

Tech companies almost always have that chain of development structure is one form or variation or another.

So functional R&D prototypes? Extremely rare and nearly non-existent. Most are destroyed because they are at the "Trade-Secret" stage of development.
 
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But they're not.
I know, with game development work I've been part of and seen personally the line is blurry to me so its sometimes easier to bundle it all together and slap a "it's not finished yet" label on it. How far into the development it is really decides the difference to me, but this is why I phrased it the way I did.

I'm certainly wrong to treat an ES card like this, but I am not as well-versed enough in the hardware development process or knowledgeable about it as I'd like to be yet so the differences are really not well known to me beyond some board changes or vbios changes, maybe drivers. With game console hardware development I am much more versed on the matter, but only up to a point, especially the PS3 related hardware, but general purpose hardware like GPUs I have a lot to learn.

For example the card a while back from Fouquin with the dual hdmi/dp port I would classify as more of a prototype, but its clearly labeled as an ES card because of that one feature alone, even though its otherwise identical to the others (that I'm aware of, beyond ports), but in terms of what the card is, that's far from what a prototype card would be.

BTW I kinda want that card for conversation purposes because it amuses me. I also wish it took off more, but in an approach more like that Xi3 steam machine's handling did, where it just let you plug both in physically and works as-is.
 
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The 4090ti prototype looks like a 4090, similar to 3090ti vs 3090. No big difference in cooler except title.
Slightly seconding the potential of the 4090ti seeing as the lad a few pages back managed to get an EVGA shroud with the branding. Sure they probably just made it ahead of time but still I'm sure said GPU exists in some capacity.
 
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I would put Engineering Samples in the same boat as prototypes personally. Different stages of development of course. I would like to see photos of a 4090ti as well though, especially given those weird cooler photos that were going around.
The implications of the supposed I/O shield and cooler design being such a thin PCB, I'd love to see it. I hope it sees the light of day sometime soon.
 
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The implications of the supposed I/O shield and cooler design being such a thin PCB, I'd love to see it. I hope it sees the light of day sometime soon.
That is not a 4090ti, Titan Ada instead.
 
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I agree with placing large pictures in a spoiler, or reduce their size.

I also agree as a desktop only viewer on fiber internet.

I like the photos and the rare cards that are posted by 孙义飞. However, when 90% of the screen scroll space per page are photos from one poster it is hard to see new posts or the text only posts by others which are sandwiched between long picture dumps.

I think 2-3 non spoiler photos would be good to highlight the card followed by an expandable spoiler with the rest of the photos to help navigating this thread.
 
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Found this TITAN X on ebay, listing says it's Engineering sample, but stickers on a videocard itself says it's a retail card (0 ES stickers as far as I can see). Maybe it's from OEM system with as less outputs as possible, for a better ailflow from turbine, who knows.

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Link on a ebay listing, it was 4 cards and all were sold, I think in one hands.
Someone got a nice quad SLI. :)
 
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Found this TITAN X on ebay, listing says it's Engineering sample, but stickers on a videocard itself says it's a retail card (0 ES stickers as far as I can see). Maybe it's from OEM system with as less outputs as possible, for a better ailflow from turbine, who knows.

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Link on a ebay listing, it was 4 cards and all were sold, I think in one hands.
Looks like one of EVGA's ES models. Maybe PNY. The retail samples would have had fully populated outputs and matching bracket. Chances are those were retail ready QS(Qualification Sample) cards for testing various government radio emission requirements.
 
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No! Booo! Spoilers are irritating..

That's why I stated, "excellent, putting a lot of pictures in thumbnails."

Much better than a spoiler. You can see what you want to enlarge.
 
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That's why I stated, "excellent, putting a lot of pictures in thumbnails."

Much better than a spoiler. You can see what you want to enlarge.
That's no different. You still have click on each photo. It's irritating and annoying. See edit.
 
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That's no different. You still have click on each photo. It's irritating and annoying.
I put all my pics for my retro reviews as thumbnails. You just click on the first image and you can scroll through them by clicking on the right (next) arrow. I don't mind browsing images that way. In the end I suppose it doesn't hurt my feelings one way or the other how images are posted.....so, I guess this reply is kind of pointless.

I'll just see myself out.
 
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I put all my pics for my retro reviews as thumbnails. You just click on the first image and you can scroll through them by clicking on the right (next) arrow. I don't mind browsing images that way. In the end I suppose it doesn't hurt my feelings one way or the other how images are posted.....so, I guess this reply is kind of pointless.

I'll just see myself out.
This wasn't aimed at you specifically. It's an irritation. People complaining about posting full images is also irritating.
 
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I've seen them before. Only the QS versions have the limited video outputs and matching brackets, one of each type for testing. Dead give-away.

Are you sure? ES/QS usually has "Not for EMC testing" sticker on them, but those Titans X had no such sticker. Also from the left they have a big retail sticker with model name and S/N, PCB made in China, ES/QS often are made in Hong Kong or USA (but not always). I think it's a special OEM card.
 
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