NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1180 PCB Leaked With No SLI Connector?

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Could the image below be the PCB of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1180 graphics card? The image was leaked by a Baidu user and shows what appears to be an NVIDIA reference PCB for an unknown graphics card model. The board layout has a 10-phase VRM power design and 6+8 Pin power headers on it. The traditional dual SLI connectors on the top edge of the card have been replaced by new pin layout (or is that NVIDIA NVLink and is this a workstation class card?). The board is numbered PG180 and there are some certification logos on the back, which means that this is a later design.

Could this be GeForce GTX 1180 or GeForce GTX 2080? The rumor mill is churning over NVIDIAs next generation graphics cards currently only known by the code name Turing. Heck, right now the web is divided by what they are going to be called. Most have that the NVIDIA Turing cards would be known as the GTX 11 series, but according to our friends over at TweakTown, they might be calling them the GTX 2070 and GTX 2080 rather than the GTX 1170 or GTX 1180.

What we do know for a fact is that the NVIDIA GeForce Gaming Celebration that will take place in Cologne, Germany on August 20th. NVIDIA is keeping the location a secret, but you can register to attend in person or watch online via the livestream. So, in under three weeks we might learn what NVIDIA has been working on for years!