Friday, January 6th 2023
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ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on
ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2 to 4.3 slots; but then expansion slot counts are whole numbers rounded to the next digit despite what marketing says.
This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.
This card combines an ASUS ROG Strix RTX 4080 PCB with an air-based cooling solution designed by Noctua. The cooler has two large aluminium fin-stacks that have been skewered by eight 6 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes, and ventilated by a pair of Noctua's top-of-the-line NF-A12x25 120 mm fans that feature fluid-dynamic bearings. The fan-tuning for this card is a Noctua-ASUS collaboration, and promises to make this the quietest air-cooled RTX 4080 you can buy.
44 Comments on ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on
BTW GPU database info is not correct it has 3xDisplayport and 2xHDMI
Nice it does have more stool sample color on it bravo :cool:
Noctua is probably going to release a 4090 later (remember last gen they launched a 3070 and later went up 1 tier with a 3080) and the price of that is going to be possibly as high as $2000. I think that Nvidia has fooled everyone with the 4090, they used to be called Titan cards and were marketed toward professional applications not gaming and no one cared about them or how loud they were because those things were in remote servers. Now in what is honestly genius rebranding everyone cares about the Titan and wants to buy one for gaming and their personal workstation and I bet most people buying it now really don't need that much performance or vram.
www.techpowerup.com/301877/fractal-design-introduces-the-north-mid-tower-case-with-wooden-elements I'm not falling for anything. Times have changed. And from your own statement "There was a time when the 80 series card was the flagship", it looks like you agree.
Titan series were north of $2,000 MSRP. 90 series for the time being is their new flagship and the performance proves it.