Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

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Quadro Q6000 ES/QS


Quadro Q4000 QS


Quadro Q2000 ES

Quadro Q2000 QS

Quadro Q600 ES

 

[RaceT3ch]

Quadro Q2000 QS
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What's with the copper wire?

 

[PixelButts]

What's with the copper wire?

I imagine either thermal couples or probing wires, and a lot of them at that

 

[freeagent]

Its pretty neat how you can see how they were trying to capture the air temperature differentials at different points in the fans rotation and seeing the effect the air from those different points has on the power components at the exhaust side of the cooler

 

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RX6900XT ES

 

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FirePro V7900 ES

 

[Wes1262]

Has anybody ever seen a 590 with the reference shroud's original graphics, including that of the backplate? If yes, do you know what brand makes it? Looks a lot better than the AIB cards

 

[Darthgrey]

Has anybody ever seen a 590 with the reference shroud's original graphics, including that of the backplate? If yes, do you know what brand makes it? Looks a lot better than the AIB cards

This is a review sample, nvidia sent those cards to some websites. Sometimes I see them on ebay or on Japan Yahoo auction, this one on the photos is from Japan, I remember this specific damage on a cooler.

 

[Wes1262]

Yep this one is from japan. Too bad for the damage

 

[Darthgrey]

Nvidia Quadro FX3400 Engineering Sample, Made in USA:

Works fine with default Windows 7 drivers, also works fine with other retail drivers, bt only in 2D, in 3DMark this card is very, very slow, there are no artifacts, but FPS fast drops to 0-1, I was not able to finish all tests, it took so much time. Maybe retail vBIOS will help, I did not try.

Next one is Nvidia QuadroFX4500 Engineering Sample, basically it's a little bit downclocked Geforce 7800 GTX 256Mb, but with all memory banks, total 512 Mb GDDR3.



Seems like card is absolutely new, thermal pads are white and clean without any traces of dust. Works perfectly in all 3D applications, I even did some tests with overclocking from 430/1050MHz to 500/1300MHz. Paste still good, GPU temperature barely hit 55*C.

Some tests with default clocks in 3DMark 2003 and 2005:



And now overclocked to 500/1300MHz, plus almost 17% from overclocking, still behind normal retail 7800 GTX 512Mb version, because it had binned GPU's and faster memory:



In the end I made a copy of original vBIOS if someone is interested.

 

[PixelButts]

In the end I made a copy of original vBIOS if someone is interested.

That's very generous of you. I wish more did this.

 

[孙义飞]

Quadro FX 5800 ES A1

 

[Ruru]

Damn that looks beefy with 32 memory chips. I didn't even know that GT200 cards with 4GB existed.

 

[Darthgrey]

Geforce FX5900 Ultra Engineering Sample long version (450 MHz core, 850 Mhz memory) on the top together with Geforce FX5900 non-Ultra (400 MHz core, 850 Mhz memory).



Nvidia provided several long versions for reviews and also they were used inside of Quake III Arena demo computers on different shows like CEBIT2003 (images are taken from hardware.fr):



Long Ultra compared with normal retail FX5900 Ultra made by BFG:



I did not noticed before, but my non-Ultra card was made in USA, Ultra version don't have a print like this:



Specs are exactly the same as usual retail video card: 450 Mhz core clock and 850 Mhz memory clock, this one has GPU NV35GL-A1, so originally this GPU was supposed to be used on a Quadro FX3000 card, but for some reason Nvidia decide to use it on Ultra version. I did not removed cooling system because GPU temperature was still ok, Nvidia used somekind of pink chewing gum as a thermal paste, it's not the best paste in the world, but it is still working after 22 years passed, Arctic MX-2 maybe will give 3-5*C better GPU temperature. Before I disassembled non-Ultra version and used new paste - difference was not big at all, because anyway under the heatspreader was also old paste and I was afraid to delid GPU.

This FX5900 Ultra looks like new, no dust at all and it works fine, passes all the benchmarks without any issues, I even did some overcklocking, but... it's not the best Geforce FX card from what I have when it comes to overcklocking: GPU was able to work on 480 Mhz and memory only on silly 880 MHz, if more - you will get artifacts. Here are some benchmarks in 3DMark 2001, 2003 and 2005:



Awful performance in 3DMark 2005, but it should be like this, FX videocards don't like shaders 2.0 which were used there. Here are some tests with overcklocking, for this 5900 Ultra and for 5900 non-Ultra:



Ultra got only 6% improvement from overcklocking in 3DMark 2003 (7011 vs 6618), but non-Ultra got more then 11% compared to 450MHz core clocks (7376 vs 6618) and even more if keep in mind that her original core clock was only 400MHz. Non-Ultra has much better overcklocking potential: 505 Mhz core and 955 Mhz memory, despite it has one desoldered chip on PCB and one capacitor is missing, OC-ed clocks are higher then stock clocks on original FX5950 Ultra! In the end I will attach original vBIOS for both cards, now anyone can make himself Ultra version if he has usual long FX5900 non-Ultra.

 

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FX5700Ultra ES

FX5900 ES

 

[Darthgrey]

E&S Simfusion 6500q aka Radeon 9800XT x4 Crazy card, on photos it looks bigger then it really is, but still it's quite big and rare videocard.



As far as I know it was used in military training simulators. Few years ago at least ten computers with this cards appeared in China as a scrap and this is one of those, saved from the hands of gold recovery guys.



Bigger than already quite big 7900 GX2, total 1Gb of video memory back in 2003! I made a custom ghetto-mod shroud to run it safe and check if it will give a picture:



At least it gives a clean picture of desktop, I'm already happy!

 

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Quadro FX4700X2 ES


Radeon X1650 X4