Geforce Maxwell GM210 with 8 GB memory in leaked images on test cards

The new Maxwell architecture is so far only visible in the middle class, but everyone assumes that Nvidia as usual has more and above all more lavish graphics processors up its sleeve. It includes the successor to the GK110 monster circuit, which is used in the Geforce GTX 780 and GTX Titan, among others.

Chinese Mydrivers now publishes censored images on a test card with what is said to be the new GM210 with the architecture Maxwell, ie the equivalent of today’s GK110 (Kepler) in the new generation. The latter was launched in March 2013 and can still be called the world’s fastest graphics processor.

The circuit is manufactured by TSMC and found out from the factory week 21, ie 19–25 May. This is surrounded by memory capsules from Hynix on both the front and back of the circuit board for a total of 8 GB of GDDR5 memory * at 7,000 MHz.

Furthermore, it appears that the test card contains an 8-pin and two 6-pin connectors. It provides a maximum power output of 375 W, which is significantly more than what the PCI Express standard allows. However, this can be explained by the fact that the test card does not draw power from the motherboard to make it easier to monitor the energy consumption, which in that case would mean that the ceiling amounts to a more normal 300 W.

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The mysterious images do not gossip about any more detailed details than that. Nvidia is expected to launch the Maxwell architecture for the higher performance classes in the fourth and final quarter of the year, albeit with existing 28 nanometer technology.

* Correction: The Chinese source states that the test card has 16 GB of memory, but it does not conform to Hynix specifications for the memory circuits H5GQ4H24MFR R2C. These instead provide a total of 8 GB of memory (16x 4 Gbit).