The insurance value of the graphic card indicates that this is the uncut Pascal die. Right of the bat, you can tell that this particular chip, the 'GTX 1080', is in a league of its own. This particular variant of the die peaks out at about 78,000 INR, which is roughly equal to 1170 USD (once again, NOT indicative of the MSRP). GPU "12914" on the other hand, looks like a completely different die (from the pricing difference) and could possibly be the runner up to the Pascal flagship ready to be unveiled in the next few weeks at GTC. These are a total of 4 variants that have been spotted on Zauba so far and from the looks of it, GPUs "1G411", "2H403" and "1H400" are derivatives of the same die. It does however, tell us how much a chip is valued at – and therefore its relative ranking in the lineup. Keep in mind that the INR value per unit given is the insurance value of the shipment and NOT indicative of the real MSRP. Given below are the variants we had previously seen on Zauba. The simple reason for that was the given value of the chip (on the shipping manifest) was not high enough. But none of them was what could qualify as the flagship. We have seen Pascal variants ready to be shown at the GTC event many times before. Here is where it gets interesting though. What we do know however is that all GPUs that are going to be demoed at the GTC 2016 event happening in April, are being shipped with the code name of “699” which makes it rather easy for us to locate and spot Pascal flagships on the shipping database: Zauba. A recent rumor did suggest that the graphics cards will be named Nvidia Geforce X80 and Geforce X80 Ti respectively, but that remains to be seen. The actual flagship graphics card can be called anything at all. It goes without saying that the naming scheme we are using at this point is nothing more than a place holder. High-end 16nm Pascal flagship 'GTX 1080' ready for demo at GTC 2016 What we can say for sure is that we are looking at either the GTX 1080 or the GTX 1080 Ti (or equivalent) graphics card and that it is going to be unveiled at the upcoming Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Keynote in April. The insurance value listed on the shipping manifest of the GPU indicates that this is the full uncut die (whether GP104 or GP100 remains unclear at this point). For the first time ever, we have spotted what is without argument the jewel in the next generation lineup that Nvidia will be presenting at GTC this April.
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