asus annouced a non-gpu graphic card

[ddnd]

http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp?news_id=15787

guess for why get a little surprise gift?

 

[Jawed]

Seems to me the GPU is on the other side of the card (helps cooling?). I can see what look like heatsink retention lugs.

I guess it also has memory on both sides of the board, from the memory device labelling.

Also mid-range or lower board since there's no auxiliary power.

Jawed

 

[MuFu]

Aha, Extremetech were right - no pipelines.

 

[Farid]

Judging by the size of the invisible core, I'd say that there's 16 Invisible Extreme Pipelinesâ„¢ acting like 32 classical Invisible Pipes.

You can quote me on this Extremetech!

Now, and more seriously, the article is guestimating that either the IC is on the other side of the PCB, to help SLI-like (Crossfire) configurations or ASUS just "demonstrated" a new card but without the main IC (...).
Interesting news isn't it?

 

[CJ]

First I thought it was an Asus Ageia PPU which they said they were gonna release in Q4, but that one doesn't have a VGA/DVI output so that's out of the question.

So since it's red and has TSOP memory, I'm going for the ATi RV515 LE, 250Mhz DDR1 TSOP (256MB/512MB), 128-bit which was slated for October released, but probably pushed forward.

 

[neliz]

It is a well known fact that, in atx systems, the gpu is on the wrong side of the card (air is normally exhausted through the powersupply at the top.)

This doesn't seem to be the first time someone would've put the gpu on the "wrong" side of the card, it would be for pci-e as well when the card was both agp/pci-e

 

[DrawPrim]

I've seen boards like this that plug into chipsets with integrated graphics on the but motherboards that didn't ship with VGA out on them. But those I've seen don't have memory chips on them.