When oh when will Nvidia debut a new graphics card generation? We've not had a new range of GPUs from the green team since Pascal launched in 2016 and though AMD released Vega in the meantime, it didn't blow us away like some expected. Combine that with pricing woes for the current generations over the past year and gamers haven't had much to get excited by. We don't even know what Nvidia's next-gen graphics cards wil be called? Will they be Turing? Will they be Volta?
One thing that seems likely though, is that they'll use GDDR6 memory. A new picture of an Nvidia engineering sample showed up on Reddit (via Videocardz) that although lacking a GPU, does highlight a few interesting details about what very much could be a next-generation graphics card.
For starters, it appears to be using GDDR6 memory and there are 12 chips of it. That could equate to 1GB a module, and therefore 12GB for the card. While 2GB per is possible, 24GB seems like overkill unless this is more of an enterprise unit.
We can also see what looks like a 384-bit memory bus and there could be an eight phase VRM with an additional two for VRAM, paired with three eight-pin power connectors, though since this is an engineering sample, these are likely to be overkill and not indicative of the final card.
Some think this could be the next Titan card for enterprise, though could act as the basis for a future-generation of consumer GPUs too. They would likely be scaled down a little if that was the case.
Image source: Reddit