Modding a 2x 140 mm All-in-One CPU Watercooler onto the AMD Radeon VII

[HwGeek]

We are also seeing the FE "A series" GPUs being used as the new "reference". Compared to **that** reference, the AIB's typical gamer cards have ranged from 112.1% OC (EVGA X Ultra) to 116.5% (MSI Gaming X Trio). .

I am also wondering why in all reviews the Nvidia's "RTX 2080 FE" is labeled as reference "RTX 2080"? aren't FE models should be compared with AIB's OCed models? also Vega VII look's worse vs "Reference" RTX 2080 in graphs since it's actually OCed RTX 2080 FE that runs on ~1900Mhz on AVG vs ~1700~1800 on Nvidia Reference 2080 clock speed?

Average gamer could think that by the graph Non-FE RTX 2080 beats Vega VII and so after looking Nvidia RTX 2080 page they will see that there is RTX 2080 FE with higher clock so it must be even better -right? wrong!.
Also I see that Nvidia's RTX 2080 Founders Edition really boost very close to AIB's Extreme models so the benchmarks results are very close, so IMO NVIDIA is really competing it's partners.

 

[EarthDog]

AIB o/c models are typically clocked a lot higher.

Typically graphs say FE on them in most reviews... or at least it is mentioned that it is an FE.