Don't bash on me, but the pattern of those solder points for the memory chips doesn't look like an ordinary GDDR5 device.
are you still expecting XDR then?
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are you still expecting XDR then?
There's 5½ or 6½ memslots in the picture, and definately not room enough in the cropped out part to get 12 chips required for 384bit, so agreed, 256bit.
Just throwing some more gasoline into the fire.
Don't bash on me, but the pattern of those solder points for the memory chips doesn't look like an ordinary GDDR5 device.
Solder points (the small dotted 4 areas per chip) look pretty same as here (HD6970)
http://www.ixbt.com/video3/images/ref/hd6970-scan-back.jpg
Yep, that will put it down.
Ninjaprime
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I donno, looks like 6½ to me, and if the same pattern was repeated on the top part of that card, it would be exactly 12...
Man from Atlantis
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I donno, looks like 6½ to me, and if the same pattern was repeated on the top part of that card, it would be exactly 12...
if the memory chips are planted on between pcie slot and gpu then you are correct.. i've never seen like that before though :smile:
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Man from Atlantis
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Don't ruin peoples dreams!
i think a bit more and it seems like you are right :smile: the white thing on the left of the photo is pcie clips and right side is card's top so upper side of photo is card's left side where dvi and other connectors are so there should be plenty of room for extra memory modules.. thats why there is a diagonal memory module.. if it was 256 bit there shouldnt be any just be L shape.. i believe the card is 384 bit :smile:
http://www.abload.de/img/pc070155dxrz1.jpg
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There is enough space for a 384 bit interface, if you arrange the memory on 3 sides ( compare here for instance or simply look at a GTX480/580
). But from that picture you can't tell what it is.
Still wouldn't fix it, when you turned the picture, it seems more obvious that the "possibly memchip spot" (now furthest down, not in line with the rest) isn't a memchip, which would mean you'd need to have 5 + the 2 45 degree chips on top line, doesn't seem likely to me.
In the original orientation you need the 3 straight ones at the bottom and 3 in a similar arrangement at the top, 4 at the left and the 2 angled ones in the top left and bottom left corners to arrive at the 12 chips for a 384bit interface.
Jawed
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Yeah that's pretty similar though in this case it's the indented chip nearest the bottom that is the most novel feature here. This seems to be explicitly for compactness, but we can't use this as evidence of >256-bit memory.
But the area near the top of the board between the GPU and the back plane is "quite empty" on HD6970, so it's easy to imagine 10th, 11th and 12th memory chips curving down into that space.
But the area near the top of the board between the GPU and the back plane is "quite empty" on HD6970, so it's easy to imagine 10th, 11th and 12th memory chips curving down into that space.
Indeed, brainfart.
Did a quick photochop, doesn't have any perspective taken into account, but seems too wide IMO
Distance between toprow chips is based on the distance between the 1½ chip visible in original
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