Thursday, August 9th 2018
NVIDIA GTX 1080-successor a Rather Hot Chip, Reference Cooler Has Dual-Fans
The GeForce GTX 1080 set high standards for efficiency. Launched as a high-end product that was faster than any other client-segment graphics card at the time, the GTX 1080 made do with just a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, and had a TDP of just 180W. The reference-design PCB, accordingly, has a rather simple VRM setup. The alleged GTX 1080-successor, called either GTX 1180 or GTX 2080 depending on who you ask, could deviate from its ideology of extreme efficiency. There were telltale signs of this departure on the first bare PCB shots.
The PCB pictures revealed preparation for an unusually strong VRM design, given that this is an NVIDIA reference board. It draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and features a 10+2 phase setup, with up to 10 vGPU and 2 vMem phases. The size of the pads for the ASIC and no more than 8 memory chips confirmed that the board is meant for the GTX 1080-successor. Adding to the theory of this board being unusually hot is an article by Chinese publication Benchlife.info, which mentions that the reference design (Founders Edition) cooling solution does away with a single lateral blower, and features a strong aluminium fin-stack heatsink ventilated by two top-flow fans (like most custom-design cards). Given that NVIDIA avoided such a design for even big-chip cards such as the GTX 1080 Ti FE or the TITAN V, the GTX 1080-successor is proving to be an interesting card to look forward to. But then what if this is the fabled GTX 1180+ / GTX 2080+, slated for late-September?
Sources:
VideoCardz, BenchLife.info
The PCB pictures revealed preparation for an unusually strong VRM design, given that this is an NVIDIA reference board. It draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and features a 10+2 phase setup, with up to 10 vGPU and 2 vMem phases. The size of the pads for the ASIC and no more than 8 memory chips confirmed that the board is meant for the GTX 1080-successor. Adding to the theory of this board being unusually hot is an article by Chinese publication Benchlife.info, which mentions that the reference design (Founders Edition) cooling solution does away with a single lateral blower, and features a strong aluminium fin-stack heatsink ventilated by two top-flow fans (like most custom-design cards). Given that NVIDIA avoided such a design for even big-chip cards such as the GTX 1080 Ti FE or the TITAN V, the GTX 1080-successor is proving to be an interesting card to look forward to. But then what if this is the fabled GTX 1180+ / GTX 2080+, slated for late-September?
75 Comments on NVIDIA GTX 1080-successor a Rather Hot Chip, Reference Cooler Has Dual-Fans
...Which means that Titan V and Titan xp perf/watt are roughly same.
The way I see it, better efficiency and lower power consumption wins, lets see which uses the most at the wall.
I think they just want to sell more FE cards, this time they're offering a solution similar to AIB coolers, they'll probably offer a blower one as well. As for the "hot and hungry", 8-pin works for 150-180W cards fairly well, but once you go near 200W you'd better have that extra 6-pin, max power spikes are always higher than avg. power consumption. It's gonna be 1080Ti with GDDR6 and slightly more efficient process, 10-15% faster, with TDP probably half way between 1080 and 1080Ti.
nVidia has had a long time with no pressure on them to make this "new" GPU, so this is rather telling, if true.
I tend to be rather laid back when it comes to high-end cards because I don't buy them. I buy mid-range and the power draw/efficiency is much better in that segment regardless of what happens at the top. Obviously ymmv.Your competition raking in cash because you underperform never equals hope.
AMD's hope is Zen can make them enough cash to fund their GPU game. Just like their GPU game kept them afloat during Bulldozer days. So there is hope for AMD, but it has nothing to do with this announcement right here.
It was obvious that Pascal had thermal headroom. It was also obvious that 20-25% bump from arch bump on the same process node would not have come for free.
They stole the MOAR CORES tactics.