Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 Pictured? An unusual design
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AlienALX
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Then why are the fins shaped to shove the air to one side? Why not just make them straight?
We know the GPU core end (and memory) is definitely a play on a blower. Because the back (back plate) has a cover on.
I just can't see Nvidia leaving big fin arrays on view like that, unless they are behind clear plastic or something. However, as I say, I can't speculate on the rest because whatever the rest may be clearly isn't there. I can only throw it around in my head and try and understand how it works.
This pic, then.
May make a lot of sense. If the VRM are along the edges of that V then yes, that would be the cooler for the VRM. The memory and core are clearly under the "Blower" end.
AlienALX
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Hmmmmm.
So I have totally just noticed it has a NVlink connector all present and correct.
OK, this next part is pure 100% speculation, but could this cooler design be made so that the card literally blows through each other? are Nvidia going to try and make a multi GPU comeback with DX12 Ultimate?
So I have totally just noticed it has a NVlink connector all present and correct.
OK, this next part is pure 100% speculation, but could this cooler design be made so that the card literally blows through each other? are Nvidia going to try and make a multi GPU comeback with DX12 Ultimate?
trawetSluaP
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What's triggering me is the fact the image has been flipped lol.
AlienALX
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The images have not been flipped, the card has.
You can not flip a 2D image without turning it into a mirror image which would make no sense.
trawetSluaP
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Take another look, the way the PCIE slot and bracket are orientated mean it wouldn't fit in a case.
If you flip the image (the second one) vertically it then is orientated the correct way. Literally just checked using paint lol.
AlienALX
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You're not looking at it correctly. Look at the bottom card in the pic again with the 3080 logo.
Then look at this
It is just messing up your perception because it is so alien.
It's literally like that time they opened the arc in Indiana Jones.
or Scanners... But yeah, as I said it's a serious head f**k.
BTW. We concluded elsewhere it is 100% a prototype PCB. The Corporation who made those PCBs comes back to Dell. And like I said before you CAN NOT flip a 2D image without it being ruined and turned into a mirror image.
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UnawareLlama23
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It looks like tinted glass with protective film on it.
I guess, just seems like an even weirder choice, in terms of trying to vent the hot exhaust air. Either way it's clear both the fans are operating in the same direction with each other, as the fan is flipped on the flip side of the card.
I could see this working well with vertical GPU mounts, idk about anywhere else.
Particularly not sold on the multi-GPU theory, given this would exhaust hot air from one card into another, creating even worse heat issues than normal.
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AngryGoldfish
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New CAD designs show a clearer picture of it. I think it looks fantastic.
AlienALX
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For the GPU core? yes. Blowing air directly through the fet cooling? would work like this.
And we all know how well that works. In fact, the whole heat assembly could be linked as one piece via heat pipes. It would certainly stop the card acting like a heat barrier as it always has in the past.
But the fet cooling and the GPU cooling are all on the same set of heatpipes, they'll be at an equilibrium within a matter of minutes if the heatpipes are doing their job properly, IE no real separation between FET and core cooling. FET's might get hot without half ok cooling, but the heat output in terms of watts will still be low double digits, vast majority of that cooling capacity at either end of the board will be for the hundreds of watts coming out of the core. (And the FET's can go to 125C safely(Albeit not the most efficiently), you just need *some* airflow with those really)
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trawetSluaP
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I might need new glasses... LOL.
I'm not sold on the look but ultimately if the design improves cooling I'm all for it.
AlienALX
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Nah you don't. Believe me, it screwed me in the head for ages. And I am the one who can usually dissect something in his head very very quickly. I have always had this fascination for how things go together, then rebuilding them in my head. I would surmise it's the autism. I don't look at things I look into them.
That is why I noticed all of the tiny little things. Like the PCB vendor etc.
As I said, it's a real head mess.
BTW to those who don't like it? they say that symmetry is beauty. Like, women in beauty competitions are judged on symmetry. Especially the face etc.
