Website videocardz leaked photo's of what seems to be the reference GeForce GTX 980. The boards looks great alright and follows the design of the GTX 780 series, this time with a very solid backplate.
The PCB photos show that the card is holding only 8 memory chips, has a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The GeForce GTX 980 is based on NVIDIA's new GM204 silicon, a product based of the company's new "Maxwell" GPU architecture. The card has two 6-pin PCIe power connectors, and as you can see, a 4+1 phase VRM design.
