NVIDIA Ampere Cooling Solution Heatsink Pictured, Rumors of Airflow Magic Quashed

[ARF]

Are those 8mm heatpipes?
Dang this thing must be HOT

Yeah, but if they will offer ITX cards ala Radeon R9 Nano with its 175-watt TDP, the heat might become less of an issue, of course with the cost of some performance.

AMD Radeon R9 Nano Specs

AMD Fiji, 1000 MHz, 4096 Cores, 256 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 4096 MB HBM, 500 MHz, 4096 bit

www.techpowerup.com

It's interesting that the R9 Nano loses only around 5% to the full R9 Fury X.

 

[dicktracy]

4352 cores on 3080, probably 6k for 3080 Ti or 3090. Beast!

 

[Steevo]

350W....

It's either going to a beast or it's just power hungry

 

[Dante Uchiha]

Judging by the effort to improve cooling, I think Nvidia wants to push the architecture to the limits this time, rather than focusing on efficiency.

That means RDNA2 is probably better than Nvidia expected, and now they're striving not to lose the throne.

 

[btarunr]

Are those 8mm heatpipes?
Dang this thing must be HOT

Those look like flat heat pipes to me.

 

[Valantar]

350-watt ITX cards ? Good luck with that..

Did I say 350W? You do know that the highest-end cards generally have the biggest PCBs, right? So if the 3080 has a short PCB like this ... it really shouldn't be a challenge to make an ITX-sized 3070 or 3060. Besides, Zotac demonstrated beautifully with their 1080 Ti Mini that you can cool a very power hungry GPU in a very small package if you really want to. The main thing stopping the latest generation from getting similar treatments seems to be the gargantuan die sizes and accompanying challenges of fitting that + VRAM + a VRM of sufficient size onto a board that small.

 

[Franzen4Real]

That's debatable - this design does maximize fin area for a two-slot card in terms of having fins "all the way out" rather than having a shroud around them. What is questionable about it on the other hand is (as @RH92's illustration above shows) the middle section of the fin stack having next to no airflow through it. There will be some, as the fins aren't nearly as dense as those directly surrounding the fans, but most of that air will take the quickest possible way out of the fin stack, leaving most of the middle/diagonal fin stacks with near zero flow. Nvm, didn't spot that the fins were entirely closed off. Passive VRM cooling fin stack?

Still, as an SFF enthusiast I have to applaud Nvidia for moving to smaller reference PCBs. Should allow for some pretty nice AIB partner ITX cards, even if this cooler design will be terrible for sandwich style cases.

Edit: see above.

A reference PCB of that size in the xx80 tier is definitely a great benefit for the SFF crowd, as there will be no waiting for one, maybe two AIB's to make a custom pcb. I am looking forward to what EVGA might offer for a compact ITX friendly solution.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

Grill of the past



grill of the future

 

[Valantar]

Grill of the past
View attachment 158489


grill of the future
View attachment 158490

That's clearly a much worse design. Anything you put on it will drip fat and BBQ sauce and whatever else is on it down onto the GPU and so on. Can't cook eggs on it either. Poor choice from Nvidia, that.

 

[T4C Fantasy]

That's clearly a much worse design. Anything you put on it will drip fat and BBQ sauce and whatever else is on it down onto the GPU and so on. Can't cook eggs on it either. Poor choice from Nvidia, that.

i know right, that's why we have to fix their mistakes and use tin foil and curve it into a pan shape to cook our stuff on, maybe revision 2 will fix this issue.

 

[Vayra86]

350-watt ITX cards ? Good luck with that..

Why not? The limitation is PCB size, put a block on it and boom ITX friendly

 

[ARF]

i know right, that's why we have to fix their mistakes and use tin foil and curve it into a pan shape to cook our stuff on, maybe revision 2 will fix this issue.

This is exactly how they cooked their meals

 

[Vayra86]

That's clearly a much worse design. Anything you put on it will drip fat and BBQ sauce and whatever else is on it down onto the GPU and so on. Can't cook eggs on it either. Poor choice from Nvidia, that.

Imagine accidentally placing your meat or egg on the fan though. Speaking of poor choices

 

[RH92]

Are those 8mm heatpipes?
Dang this thing must be HOT

I mean beefy cooling doesn't necessarily mean something runs hot , nowadays more and more peoples care about good acoustic performance as well which can only be achieved with beefy coolers .

By the way those heatpipes look closer to 12mm to me .

Those look like flat heat pipes to me.

Yep they definitely become flat towards the cooler base / vapor chamber ( assuming there is one ) but on the rest of the cooler they seem to be normal .

 

[Basard]

I thought it was pretty obvious how the air flowed.... It's a cool design, but seems overly complicated.

 

[Valantar]

Imagine accidentally placing your meat or egg on the fan though. Speaking of poor choices

Fan? That's the built-in egg scrambler. It's a feature. Whips your egg, then distributes it onto the cooking surfaces directly. (Some disassembly required.)

 

[Vayra86]

Fan? That's the built-in egg scrambler. It's a feature. Whips your egg, then distributes it onto the cooking surfaces directly. (Some disassembly required.)

I want two.

 

[Valantar]

I want two.

You're in luck, there's one on each side! Two for the price of one! All in 99 easy installments of $19.99! Call now and get our patent-pending GeForce grill apron (dRGB edition, Graphene black, available while stocks last) included in your order for free!

 

[Xaled]

Gsync +150$
RT Cores +150$
New Cooler +150$

 

[Mad_foxx1983]

Sapphire Pulse RTX 3080 TI lol

 

[ARF]

Sapphire Pulse RTX 3080 TI lol

EVGA Radeon RX 6800 XT Ultra lol

 

[Redkaliber]

What ya all smokin these days? I just ran out of herb and I can tell ya this is not gonna be the new rtx cooler.

Whats sapphire got to do with Nvidia? Dont they only make red camp cards?

 

[Valantar]

What ya all smokin these days? I just ran out of herb and I can tell ya this is not gonna be the new rtx cooler.

Whats sapphire got to do with Nvidia? Dont they only make red camp cards?

I'm reasonably sure that was supposed to be a joke referring to this design being somewhat similar to previous Sapphire GPU cooler designs.

 

[ARF]

Whats sapphire got to do with Nvidia? Dont they only make red camp cards?

ASRock, Sapphire and XFX are exclusive partners with AMD Radeon, so, yes, Radeon only.

 

[ZoneDymo]

"Nvidia is not happy with the leak and started an investigation"

And more gets leaked hahaha

I'm reasonably sure that was supposed to be a joke referring to this design being somewhat similar to previous Sapphire GPU cooler designs.

Its not a joke, its to help illustrated how this design functions, how its pretty much exactly that sapphire card but with one of the fans instead on the other side.