NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Pictured?

[Vayra86]

The costs are normally transferred to the consumers, anyways.
Halo products like Big Navi are very important in order to show to the consumers that the company can in reality make cutting-edge products, not just entry-level and mid-range. Halo is important to keep a recognisable brand reputation and awareness.

Also, it'd have very positive effect on the overall competitiveness and pricing structure. RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT were launched too expensive.

AMD should have launched the Navi 10 with proper voltage at 150-watt, and then build the product stack up and down as the wish.
Instead, there is just super duper expensive Navi 10 cards with crazy overclocks reaching staggering 250-300-watt TDP.


Competition but real one in order to keep the prices in check.

Seriously man just stop talking because every post you try to talk yourself out of your own BS is diggin a deeper hole. It happened with browsers, and its happening here. Why, I wonder... You can also just admit you don't know jack squat and start learning. This forum is full of people ready to educate. But when they do so, you stick to your ideas - with no basis.

Its not like the facade is working either.

At its core you're not wrong about halo product... but the learning point here is about yields and fabs, how they work and why they work like they do. Its great to understand that because chip size and all that are very strong bits of info to gauge what'll happen next, and why companies do what they do. Simple rule of thumb, no matter what news you read: the larger the die, the lower the yield. This in turn automatically, always means that smaller chips are far easier to make cost effectively. Big chips are extremely difficult to make without losing money, or pricing them out of this world. Examples everywhere. 2080ti; Turing pre Super even was expensive across the whole stack. Even the Supers are a result of better yields. That wasnt just lack of competition. It was a series of big dies with little to show for it. This is also why Navi 1st gen was pretty good for AMD. The die wasn't too big. And its why GCN was long overdue for a shrink or overhaul: dies got too large and competitor could do the same with smaller ones. The gap was even large enough that Nvidia could pull a Turing on 12nm and still come out winning.

Seems like the front exhaust will feed the rear fan with hot air. If the fans were on the same side then I guess the heat from the front exhaust would go directly to the CPU area..
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As I see it, this card will exhaust much like a blower, likely having the usual ventilation holes at the outputs- end of the card, and possibly the opposite end? Like a double radial blower, kind of idea. That makes for two very short paths for air to go through and avoids any sort of turbulence from multiple directions of airflow. Just two separate chambers, really. Given the location of PCB, one of those fans is just there to cool heatsink and the other is blasting away over the die.

Both fans are definitely intakes.

 

[SL2]

As I see it, this card will exhaust much like a blower, likely having the usual ventilation holes at the outputs- end of the card, and possibly the opposite end? Like a double radial blower, kind of idea. That makes for two very short paths for air to go through and avoids any sort of turbulence from multiple directions of airflow. Just two separate chambers, really. Given the location of PCB, one of those fans is just there to cool heatsink and the other is blasting away over the die.

Both fans are definitely intakes.

Of course they're both intakes. I guess we need a pic from the front to see what's happening here.

Oh and thanks for talking to mr Fair and Balanced over there..

 

[Vayra86]

Of course they're both intakes. I guess we need a pic from the front to see what's happening here.

Oh and thanks for talking to mr Fair and Balanced over there..

Well we have the top and bottom shots and I don't see any notable exhaust there other than the grille kinda thing on one side. Still doesn't explain the other fan's exhaust, so that might well be out the back then. The options are pretty limited.

Interesting design that is for sure lol

 

[SL2]

@Vayra86 Have a look at the fins on the front, the rear ones (1) are pointing towards the back, like expected, but in the front they're arrow shaped (2). Could be decoration, but if so, why doesn't it match the direction of (1)? Then again there are no such thing on the back of the card (3) that matches (4).

Yeah, it doesn't have to make sense, as we don't know how it works so far.

 

[Vayra86]

@Vayra86 Have a look at the fins on the front, the rear ones (1) are pointing towards the back, like expected, but in the front they're arrow shaped (2). Could be decoration, but if so, why doesn't it match the direction of (1)? Then again there are no such thing on the back of the card (3) that matches (4).
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Yeah, it doesn't have to make sense, as we don't know how it works so far.

The plot thickens... as do the heatsinks... is this 2.5 slot? Seems fat

 

[SL2]

Too many imperfections between the fins to be fake/decoration.

is this 2.5 slot? Seems fat

I don't think so, compare with the rear bracket. I don't think anything thicker than dual slot would be accepted for a FE.

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!

 

[dyonoctis]

Too many imperfections between the fins to be fake/decoration.
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I don't think so, compare with the rear bracket. I don't think anything thicker than dual slot would be accepted for a FE.

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!

It's even bent ( forgive my dirty copy paste without anti-aliasing) :

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.

 

[ARF]

Seriously man just stop talking because every post you try to talk yourself out of your own BS is diggin a deeper hole. It happened with browsers, and its happening here. Why, I wonder... You can also just admit you don't know jack squat and start learning. This forum is full of people ready to educate. But when they do so, you stick to your ideas - with no basis.

Its not like the facade is working either.

At its core you're not wrong about halo product...

So, I am not wrong but I am digging a hole. You are in your hole. You need an education from me, not me from you
Not I am driving companies to bankruptcy but people with silly management just like yours would be.

 

[Vayra86]

So, I am not wrong but I am digging a hole. You are in your hole. You need an education from me, not me from you
Not I am driving companies to bankruptcy but people with silly management just like yours would be.

Okay!

 

[matar]

WOW sweet so sad for those who just bought RTX 2080 ti this month

 

[cucker tarlson]

WOW sweet so sad for those who just bought RTX 2080 ti this month

they have a 2080Ti and you don't is what that comment tells me

I hope this cooler approach is very good and quiet,so that aibs are pushed to make better coolers priced lower.

 

[RH92]

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!

Assuming heat-pipes are involved which IMO is not the case , considering Nvidia past coolers more likely than not we are probably looking at two separated ( or not ) vapor chambers .

 

[SL2]

Assuming heat-pipes are involved which IMO is not the case , considering Nvidia past coolers more likely than not we are probably looking at two separated ( or not ) vapor chambers .

That still doesn't explain the all those different fin directions.

 

[cucker tarlson]

That still doesn't explain the all those different fin directions.

once one of the fans dies you flip over the cooler and you're good to go again

 

[thesmokingman]

The aesthetic is a real departure for Nvidia. I'm not sure it's hmm, manly enough for a top end card as strange as that may sound. Maybe it'll grow on us?

 

[cucker tarlson]

The aesthetic is a real departure for Nvidia. I'm not sure it's hmm, manly enough for a top end card as strange as that may sound. Maybe it'll grow on us?

there's gonna be a shroud on that maybe possibly probably

 

[matar]

they have a 2080Ti and you don't is what that comment tells me

I hope this cooler approach is very good and quiet,so that aibs are pushed to make better coolers priced lower.

lol i dont ,i still have my desktop, buti have moved the laptop way AROUS X7 DT i7-6820HK @3.8GHZ all cores with no extra voltage and a full desktop GTX 980 with 8GB @1300MHZ

 

[cucker tarlson]

lol i dont ,i still have my desktop, buti have moved the laptop way AROUS X7 DT i7-6820HK @3.8GHZ all cores with no extra voltage and a full desktop GTX 980 with 8GB @1300MHZ

could never get into laptops since I'm a silence maniac.

 

[RH92]

That still doesn't explain the all those different fin directions.

One explanation might be they want to isolate the airflow between the two supposed vapor chambers . But i have to agree the airflow pattern is very hard to grasp .

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 !

 

[cucker tarlson]

even if photo is legit,we don't know if this makes it to production in this form or at all.

 

[SL2]

@RH92 The yellow arrows are just like the one I posted. But still, I fail to see why the front fins have a different layout.

even if photo is legit,we don't know if this makes it to production in this form or at all.

Given how the fins have been bent, I doubt this will be the final design.

 

[TheLostSwede]

One explanation might be they want to isolate the airflow between the two supposed vapor chambers . But i have to agree the airflow pattern is very hard to grasp .

The only logical airflow pattern i can come up with would be this one :

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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 !

Then that would be the first card in a long time to suck air in, rather than vent it out the back.
Your logic does seem pretty sound though, considering that it might help cool those mid-board heatsinks.

 

[Space Lynx]

It looks like a push-pull tunnel. With enough static presure, this design could be very efficient.

also @btarunr

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.

 

[dicktracy]

The design is fake. Why? Because why would they suddenly ditch the superior axial fans for these awful ones.

 

[cucker tarlson]

The design is fake. Why? Because why would they suddenly ditch the superior axial fans for these awful ones.

maybe it's just not final