Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

[T4C Fantasy]

Not super remarkable but previously unknown: A TU106 Zotac Amp GTX 1650. It's not in the techpowerup database yet, and 3DMark won't even run on it because it gets stuck on the validation stage.

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Bizarrely, it supports RTX Video Super Resolution. It is functional, but the performance is awful. I guess the driver just sees the TU106 and assumes it's an RTX card? Raytracing doesn't work as you'd expect, but it's odd that this and RTX Dynamic Vibrance does...

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ZOTAC GTX 1650 AMP Core Specs

NVIDIA TU106, 1650 MHz, 896 Cores, 56 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4096 MB GDDR6, 1500 MHz, 128 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[孙义飞]

GTX480 QS

 

[Ruru]

GTX480 QS
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That reminded me... wonder that did those holes in the PCB help at all for the temps in 465/470/480?

 

[孙义飞]

That reminded me... wonder that did those holes in the PCB help at all for the temps in 465/470/480?

Of course there is

 

[mxthunder]

I remember being so disappointed when I got my 480 that the GeForce logo wasnt pained on the heatsink like that.

 

[Ruru]

I remember being so disappointed when I got my 480 that the GeForce logo wasnt pained on the heatsink like that.

I had a reference 670 which was AFAIK even a sample from Nvidia, that also had just a painted logo, not a LED illuminated logo. Flashed it to 760 Ti OEM just for curiosity and worked fine.

 

[孙义飞]

GTX460 ES

 

[Darthgrey]

Gigabyte 3D10000 (not just 3D1) 6600GT Dual, Rev. 0.1. Review sample from ixbt.com with a little bit different shroud design. Works like a usual one, with the same clocks, has an additional two chips soldered near fan connection, they can be found in device manager as unknown device

 

[Ruru]

Gigabyte 3D10000 (not just 3D1) 6600GT Dual, Rev. 0.1. Review sample from ixbt.com with a little bit different shroud design. Works like a usual one, with the same clocks, has an additional two chips soldered near fan connection, they can be found in device manager as unknown device

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Totally forgot about the 3D1, and didn't even know that there was a 3D10000 model. The 3D1 was (in)famous for its compatibility issues, didn't it need a NF4 SLI board to work or something?

Gigabyte also made a dual 6800 GT, but never released it.

GV-3D1-68GT Overview | Graphics Card - GIGABYTE Global

Discover AORUS premium graphics cards, ft. WINDFORCE cooling, RGB lighting, PCB protection, and VR friendly features for the best gaming and VR experience!

www.gigabyte.com

 

[Darthgrey]

Totally forgot about the 3D1, and didn't even know that there was a 3D10000 model. The 3D1 was (in)famous for its compatibility issues, didn't it need a NF4 SLI board to work or something?

Gigabyte also made a dual 6800 GT, but never released it.

GV-3D1-68GT Overview | Graphics Card - GIGABYTE Global

Discover AORUS premium graphics cards, ft. WINDFORCE cooling, RGB lighting, PCB protection, and VR friendly features for the best gaming and VR experience!

www.gigabyte.com

Yes, those cards need a motherboard with nForce4 SLI chipset, not only made by Gigabyte, I checked my cards on a DFI and they were working properly with SLI active. Gigabyte released dual 6800GT, it was possible to buy it in retail, but it was not so many of them. I have a boxed card:



For abt. 10 years I've seen four more in a wild, one was selling in other country, two more were seen in my country, but broken and in poor condition from computer hardware recycle store. One more boxed like new was sold in Japan few weeks ago for $1032.

 

[Ruru]

Yes, those cards need a motherboard with nForce4 SLI chipset, not only made by Gigabyte, I checked my cards on a DFI and they were working properly with SLI active. Gigabyte released dual 6800GT, it was possible to buy it in retail, but it was not so many of them. I have a boxed card:

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For abt. 10 years I've seen four more in a wild, one was in other contry, two more in my country, but broken and in poor condition. One more boxed like new was sold in Japan few weeks ago for $1032.

Interesting, I've always thought that those dual 6800GTs were limited only to few prototypes/engineering samples and they've just forgot that product page to exist.

 

[Darthgrey]

Interesting, I've always thought that those dual 6800GTs were limited only to few prototypes/engineering samples and they've just forgot that product page to exist.

ASUS 6800GT/Ultra was very limited and prototype only, maybe 30-100 were made total. Very hard to find, almost impossible, I know at least two persons who has this card. Photos were made by Hexus.net in one of ASUS own labs long time ago. And MSI 6800 Ultra Dual I don't even know if it was a working sample, one was shown on Computex and after show it disapeared. MSI card had a SLI connector, I wonder if it was possible to run 4 GPU's in one time.

 

[Ruru]

ASUS 6800GT/Ultra was very limited and prototype only, maybe 30-100 were made total. Very hard to find, almost impossible, I know at least two persons who has this card. Photos were made by Hexus.net in one of ASUS own labs long time ago. And MSI 6800 Ultra Dual I don't even know if it was a working sample, one was shown on Computex and after show it disapeared. MSI card had a SLI connector, I wonder if it was possible to run 4 GPU's in one time.

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Weird that on the Asus one that the other GPU has a copper heatsink and the other has an aluminium one. Reminds me of HD 3870X2 since it had also both alu and cu heatsinks (the closer GPU to the fan had aluminium and the farther a copper heatsink)

The SLI connector is indeed interesting, wonder that if later drivers (when 7900GX2 and 7950GX2 were released) would've supported 6800 GT Quad-SLI.

edit: Graphics cards were way more interesting 10-25 years ago than the modern ones.

 

[Darthgrey]

Weird that on the Asus one that the other GPU has a copper heatsink and the other has an aluminium one. Reminds me of HD 3870X2 since it had also both alu and cu heatsinks (the closer GPU to the fan had aluminium and the farther a copper heatsink)

edit: Graphics cards were way more interesting 10-25 years ago than the modern ones.

I think copper and aluminum heatsinks were made only for testing purposes. Maybe they were testing difference in temperatures, maybe copper were made for Ultra version and aluminum for GT, on a usual 6800 Ultra difference between aluminum and copper is abt. 3-4* with the same RPM (I installed a copper heatsink from PCI-E version on my AGP 6800U, almost all AGP except Gainward copper has aluminum heatsinks).

And yes, graphics cards were more intresting. Now it is prohibited by Ngreedia and AMD to make experiments like installing double memory, faster memory, making dual GPU cards etc. They have a sales plans for the next 5 years and those alternative version of video cards with like a double VRAM are not included in them, they both do everything to make fool of customers.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Gigabyte 3D10000 (not just 3D1) 6600GT Dual, Rev. 0.1. Review sample from ixbt.com with a little bit different shroud design. Works like a usual one, with the same clocks, has an additional two chips soldered near fan connection, they can be found in device manager as unknown device

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That was damn good card! Excellent condition too!

 

[孙义飞]

NVS450 ES

 

[FzR dontdie x]

GTX 2070 ES

 

[FzR dontdie x]

GTX 2070 ES

Got GPU-z working on the card, interestingly it is missing a ton of TMUs as well as only having an 80W bios, makes sense as it is pretty much just an evaluation board.

 

[Wes1262]

Early Radeon R100 XT (200/200mhz) December 2000 - Originally found in the Seattle area (Portland or Hillsboro?)
Was new sealed in the ESD bag with the complete "light retail" bundle (unfortunately no cool box). Possibly the only rare card I own

 

[Wes1262]

Folks, forgive the slight off topic request here (it is about a rare card though) but I couldn't find help anywhere else. I've found a master x850xt crossfire..... but without cable.... does anyone have the pinout of the dongle? I believe it will be very similar to a simple DMS59 to 2x DVI adapter, and modifying one should be very easy. In fact, it could be as simple as buying a DVI male to female adapter... but I won't dare to test that out unless someone provides me a diagram of the cable. I really don't want to fry the crossfire card Thanks!

 

[PixelButts]

GTX 2070 ES

Honestly I like their solution to dealing with different video connectors. Also that really long wire. There's a lot going on with that board everywhere.
Did it come with a shroud/cooler with it or was it just the board? I'm genuinely curious.

 

[FzR dontdie x]

Honestly I like their solution to dealing with different video connectors. Also that really long wire. There's a lot going on with that board everywhere.
Did it come with a shroud/cooler with it or was it just the board? I'm genuinely curious.

was PCB only, i was able to mount a heatsink from a broken 2080ti xc ultra to it

 

[孙义飞]

9800GTX+ QS

 

[StefanM]

Der8auer tested Titan ADA...

https://videocardz.com/newz/never-released-nvidia-titan-ada-prototype-found-and-tested-18432-cores-48gb-g6x-memory-and-two-power-connectors

 

[PixelButts]

Der8auer tested Titan ADA...

https://videocardz.com/newz/never-released-nvidia-titan-ada-prototype-found-and-tested-18432-cores-48gb-g6x-memory-and-two-power-connectors

Damn it even has a different color TWO connectors. What a lucky dude to get his hands on this.