Packaging

The Card

Zotac uses a metal cooler shroud paired with a metal backplate, which looks great. In terms of color theme, various shades of gray are used, and along the top edge, an RGB strip has been installed.


Dimensions of the card are 32 cm x 12.5 cm, and it weighs 1536 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.1.

The DisplayPort 1.4a outputs support Display Stream Compression (DSC) 1.2a, which lets you connect 4K displays at 120 Hz and 8K displays at 60 Hz. Ampere can drive two 8K displays at 60 Hz with just one cable per display.

Ampere is the first GPU to support HDMI 2.1, which increases bandwidth to 48 Gbps to support higher resolutions, like 4K144 and 8K30, with a single cable. With DSC, this goes up to 4K240 and 8K120. NVIDIA's new NVENC/NVDEC video engine is optimized to handle video tasks with minimal CPU load. The highlight here is added support for AV1 decode. Just like on Turing, you may also decode MPEG-2, VC1, VP8, VP9, H.264, and H.265 natively, at up to 8K@12-bit.

The encoder is identical to Turing. It supports H.264, H.265, and lossless at up to 8K@10-bit.


With just two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, the AMP HoloBlack is among a minority of the RTX 3080 Ti cards tested today. This configuration is rated for 375 W.


The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti does not support SLI.

Teardown

The design of the card is quite conservative overall despite streaks of modern RGB lighting. A simple metal shroud covers a chunky aluminium heatsink that's ventilated by three fans.


Seven nickel-plated copper heatpipes make indirect contact with the GPU and memory through a base-plate out of the same material.


An additional structural frame doubles up as the VRM heatsink. Thermal pads for the memory are 2.0 mm thick, backplate pads are 2.2 mm, and VRM pads 2.5 mm.


A 3-D metal backplate with its own lighting element finishes things off.