Wednesday, July 31st 2019
GIGABYTE Unveils the Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Xtreme WaterForce Graphics Card
GIGABYTE today unveiled the Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Xtreme WaterForce, its most premium offering based on the recently launched GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU. Its design involves a factory-fitted 2-piece AIO liquid-cooling solution for the GPU, held together by coolant tubing. Under the shroud, the pump-block draws heat directly from the GPU and a base-plate that soaks up heat from the memory chips and VRM. Heat is dissipated by a 240 mm x 120 mm radiator ventilated by a pair of 120 mm spinners optimized for radiator-ventilation. With these, the card serves up factory-overclocked speeds of 1860 MHz GPU Boost compared to 1815 MHz reference, while the memory is untouched at 15.5 Gbps GDDR6.
The Aorus RTX 2080 SUPER Xtreme WaterForce is awash with RGB LED embellishments on almost every surface. A large acrylic diffuser takes centerstage on the cooler shroud. There are additional diffusers on the card's top, right next to the two 8-pin PCIe power inputs, and an Aorus logo on the back-plate. The two 120 mm fans each have five aRGB LEDs in the impeller-hubs. Controlling all this is GIGABYTE's RGB Fusion software. Display outputs include three each of HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4; and a VirtualLink port. GIGABYTE is backing this card with a class-leading 4-year warranty. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The Aorus RTX 2080 SUPER Xtreme WaterForce is awash with RGB LED embellishments on almost every surface. A large acrylic diffuser takes centerstage on the cooler shroud. There are additional diffusers on the card's top, right next to the two 8-pin PCIe power inputs, and an Aorus logo on the back-plate. The two 120 mm fans each have five aRGB LEDs in the impeller-hubs. Controlling all this is GIGABYTE's RGB Fusion software. Display outputs include three each of HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4; and a VirtualLink port. GIGABYTE is backing this card with a class-leading 4-year warranty. The company didn't reveal pricing.
11 Comments on GIGABYTE Unveils the Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Xtreme WaterForce Graphics Card
Please, GB, adorn it with more pointless crap! You can do it.
Plenty of room (price point) to fill up.Eh its not as sleek/square as others, but if you imagine away the RGB, replace that just for silver, I think it doesnt look that bad.Well really the only thing that makes it a bit rediculous is the "Xtreme" part.
Aorus is just their line this belongs to, like Asus has ROG.
Super is just the silly name Nvidia added to these cards.
Waterforce is the name of this specific watercooled card and thus makes sense.
So really, without the Xtreme part, it would be as basic as the name could have been.
Either way you dont have to turn on RGB, it doesnt have to be part of it so your reacting is a bit odd to me.
With this said, I recently bought an MSI 2080ti SeaHawk, single 120mm AIO. This card was on sale, after discounts for 1069, which is a pretty good deal. I was looking at 2080 and 2080 super and the 2080Ti was only $330 more than the 2080 super, which was just a bit more than the original 2080. So, regardless of AIO or not, watch for some good 2080Ti deals because the 2080 is still priced too high.