Saturday, June 6th 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Pictured?
Here are what could be the very first pictures of a reference NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 "Ampere" graphics card revealing an unusual board design, which is the biggest departure in NVIDIA's design schemes since the original GeForce TITAN. It features a dual-fan aluminium fin-stack cooler, except that one of its fans is located on the obverse side, and the other on the reverse side of the card. The PCB of the card appears to extend only two-thirds the length of the card, ending in an inward cutout, beyond which there's only an extension of the cooling solution. The cooler shroud, rather than being a solid covering of the heatsink, is made of aluminium heatsink ridges. All in all, a very unusual design, which NVIDIA could implement on its top-tier SKUs, such as the RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti, and in a cosmetic form on lower SKUs. We get the feeling that "Cyberpunk 2077" has influenced this design.
Sources:
ChipHell Forums, HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
225 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Pictured?
Oh and thanks for talking to mr Fair and Balanced over there.. :roll:
Interesting design that is for sure lol
Yeah, it doesn't have to make sense, as we don't know how it works so far.
Fin direction could be an indication of heatpipe direction, as seen in most coolers, but that 45° angle makes no sense..
Edit: Although you'll get larger contact area between heatpipe and fin!
As I see it it's a bit more rad surface without adding too much bulk. The fin density looks great, better than some cheap cards.
Not I am driving companies to bankruptcy but people with silly management just like yours would be.
I hope this cooler approach is very good and quiet,so that aibs are pushed to make better coolers priced lower.
The only logical airflow pattern i can come up with would be this one :
So in essence 2/3 of the heatsink area is dedicated to the core/memory cooling and will blow hot air from the sides , while the other 1/3 is dedicated to VRM cooling .
Still weird AF i have to admit !
Your logic does seem pretty sound though, considering that it might help cool those mid-board heatsinks.
if this is indeed the design, what case and fan airflow setup would be optimal? i feel like this kind of design would benefit from a side panel case fan exhaust.