This Prototype AMD Radeon Card Houses Four RX 470 GPUs

In a peculiar development, an X user named GOK recently shared images of an exceptional AMD Radeon GPU capable of accommodating four Radeon RX 470 GPUs. This unprecedented design showcases the GPU on a massive PCB, arranged in a 2×2 configuration with each GPU paired with eight GDDR5 memory chips and a dedicated power supply. The RX 470, a mid-range graphics card from AMD's Polaris era, launched in 2016 and boasted an 8GB memory capacity.

Consequently, the proposed card would have provided a total memory of 32GB. The PCIe card's power requirements remain unknown, although four 8-pin PCIe power connectors are evident on the PCB's edges in one of the photographs. The motivation behind this unconventional creation remains a subject of speculation, with many believing it was primarily designed for cryptocurrency mining.

Back in the day, miners held a monopoly on GPU supply, particularly the Radeon RX 470, due to its reliable hash rate for mining Ethereum. Although multi-GPU cards are not new, this particular prototype stands out. The writer recalls the AMD Radeon R9 295X2, which featured two R9 290X GPUs and was cooled by a single-fan, 120mm Asetek cooler with individual tubes for each GPU die.

Notably, the card's outputs included four mini-DisplayPort ports, necessitating an adapter for HDMI or standard DisplayPort connections. Notably, NVIDIA released the GeForce GTX Titan Z in 2014, a card that also featured dual Kepler GPUs and a combined 12GB GDDR5 VRAM.