Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Pictured? An unusual design

[WYP]

Nvidia's alleged RTX 3080 Design breaks the established norms of GPU cooler design.



Read more about Nvidia's alleged reference RTX 3080 GPU design.

 

[Giggyolly]

That seems way too specific and unlike anything we've seen to be a fake...

Although there's no gold contact pads, so it's not functional.. but who knows

 

[Warchild]

Don't believe it.

The thing looks hideous. They have used a sleek industrial design for a long time. And it has worked for them. Further more, those fans look inefficient and loud. I can't see this being real.

Then again leaks on chiphell have been right many times.

 

[Greenback]

I think I'd have to agree with warchild, this looks too ugly to be a replacement for what they have now.

 

[AlienALX]

It's not complete guys. Look at the way they have covers. I will bet there is one missing from the fan end.

From a design standpoint it makes a lot of sense. The GPU core is near the back plate, and the fins have been designed to push the air through them and then straight out of the back of the case. Which is a fantastic design, IMO, as it will be efficient like a blower only without all of the noise. It won't look ugly with the covers on.

TBH that is engineering pron and I love it. If it's real, of course. Very clever use of fin design to get the air out of the case.

 

[MadShadow]

I hope that's not glossy black plastic I see...

 

[AlienALX]

Nope. You would see it through the plastic. That looks like exactly the same plastic they use now.

 

[m2geek]

Looks like one of those cards that has an AIO attached to it.

 

[AlienALX]

The last pic gives it away. There is another fan on the back side.

 

[RobM]

damn thats ugly

 

[grec]

In most systems, wouldn't this exhaust most of the hot air directly into the intake of any CPU tower cooler?

 

[AlienALX]

In most systems, wouldn't this exhaust most of the hot air directly into the intake of any CPU tower cooler?

I'm still getting my head around which bit is which and what end is which.

Looking at the two chambers though one blows heat directly out of the back (GPU side probably) and the other blows it out of the other end (VRM and memory).

TBH it's a real headmess. However, I can see it totally working.

 

[grec]

Going from the orientation of those fans and the slot looks like it would work like this.
(Fans are the blue squares, airflow the red arrows, one of the fans would both intake and exhaust as the other side is vented)

 

[AlienALX]

The left side fan cools the GPU core chamber, and from what I can see will push that heat straight out of the PCI plate. The red line indicates where the back of the case will be.

The right side fan seems to be for the fets and memory, and looks like it will either exhaust out of the other end (as I have indicated with the yellow scribbles)

So the fan on the right is an intake, not an outlet.

As I said man, it's a proper puzzle this one !

 

[MadShadow]

It looks like the PCB ends where you can see the heatsink on the bottom card, suggesting that the fan blows downwards straight through the card.


The fan on the top card seems like it follows the traditional blower style.


The heatsinks in the middle of the top card look like they're passively cooled since they look thicker and are spaced further apart

 

[Warchild]

It's not complete guys. Look at the way they have covers. I will bet there is one missing from the fan end.

From a design standpoint it makes a lot of sense. The GPU core is near the back plate, and the fins have been designed to push the air through them and then straight out of the back of the case. Which is a fantastic design, IMO, as it will be efficient like a blower only without all of the noise. It won't look ugly with the covers on.

TBH that is engineering pron and I love it. If it's real, of course. Very clever use of fin design to get the air out of the case.

The other fan is hidden. Look at the design and they are not on the same horizontal level. Looks like on is intake and other exhaust

Going from the orientation of those fans and the slot looks like it would work like this.
(Fans are the blue squares, airflow the red arrows, one of the fans would both intake and exhaust as the other side is vented)

Its the opposite in my opinion. Looking at the visible fan design we can only assume it turns clockwise so it acts as intake, other wise the fans would need to be flipped if the rotation was the other way. Also the orientation of the PCI slot means this fan is face up. It has to intake the cool air blowing in from the front, and exhaust it out the bottom.

 

[AlienALX]

The bottom pic is with the card in the normal position, with the PCI plate on the left. As it would go into most cases.

The pic above? it's on the other side. Look at the PCIE edge connector, it's not there (indicating it has been flipped over).

So you can actually see both sides of the card there. Whether or not it has more covers? dunno. What I do know is that in the bottom pic there is at least some trim missing off to the left of the fan. You can see the plastic tab edges.

Just discussing this on another forum now and tbh? the more improbable this looks the more probable it seems to me. Mostly because I watched GN tear down the 2080Ti at launch (well, try to, what did it have something like 70 screws?!?!) the more it just seems like Nvidia.#

Here. The green arrows point to the same parts of the card.

Look at the two screw holes on the bit that you screw into the case. That has not been rotated it has been flipped over. If you rotate it in your mind (I don't have photoshop lol) you can figure out it ends up in the wrong place.

Meaning that is both sides of the card.

 

[AlienALX]

One more, trying desperately to explain what I see.

OK. Forget the bottom card for a moment. The line on the left? flip the card over on that line (like, end to end. No turning, just flip it)

Then look at what I have labelled in yellow. Where you would put the screws in. It would end up in the same place.

That is definitely both sides of the same card, and there is a fan in the top (well, the top as we look at them, the back plate side) and one in the bottom for the GPU core and memory).

Whoever designed the thing must like yoga or something, or was clearly very high on LSD.

 

[MadShadow]

This is how I see it. I don't think there can be airflow between the two fans due to the orientation of the heatsink fins.


Edit: The airflow on either fan could be reversed. Can't really tell from the picture
Edit 2: The airflow on the top fan is probably reversed so that they both blow upwards

 

[AlienALX]

Yeah the VRM (the fan inside the back plate) could blow directly through. I don't know how many covers it has. Like, here you can definitely see it is missing something.

Now whether that is a small piece of silver trim and you are supposed to see all of the cooling fins, or whether it is a cover of some sort (that only has a fan opening in it) or what not I really can't tell.

https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/EMC:US

Just looked up EMC corporation (it clearly says it on the PCB) and that is what I came up with. Another clue, maybe.