RTX 3080 image (maybe?)

[WeeemRCB]

Don't know why people get so butthurt about this... it's not like you see this side of it when it's installed.

The back plate tho ... that's what needs to look good

[Haro]

2 minutes ago, WeeemRCB said:

Don't know why people get so butthurt about this... it's not like you see this side of it when it's installed.

The back plate tho ... that's what needs to look good

Who is butt Burt about this ? Lol

We are just saying our opinions on the design no more no less lol 

[C2dan88]

Interesting, that the cooling fan is on the back plate side.

[Spotty]

Hmm. I don't know. I think the design with the fan on both sides is kinda interesting, but there's something about it that just looks off. I think it's the pale blue colour of the shroud. Looks tacky. Doesn't look like an Nvidia card.

 

I think if it was in black and silver it would look better.

Spoiler

(black and white cause idk how to change colours without ruining a pic)

 

 

 

Edit: I'm a fool. I just looked at the pictures again and realised the blue is actually protective film over it. It's silver.

 

Let's assume that these leaked photos are accurate, I wonder if any AIB cards would use the same dual fan design or if they will stick to the more traditional 2 or 3 fan designs on the heatsink side.

 

 

Edited June 6, 2020 by Spotty

[porina]

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Hmm. I don't know. I think the design with the fan on both sides is kinda interesting, but there's something about it that just looks off. I think it's the pale blue colour of the shroud. Looks tacky. Doesn't look like an Nvidia card.

Looking again at the images, while there is a lot of blue, there are also parts of silver. I think the blue might be some protective tape.

[Spotty]

Just now, porina said:

Looking again at the images, while there is a lot of blue, there are also parts of silver. I think the blue might be some protective tape.

Yep, looks like protective plastic film! I noticed it about 3 seconds after posting You can tell it's film in the corner of the images you see it's missing and you can see the silver metal(?) underneath the film.

[Haro]

1 minute ago, porina said:

Looking again at the images, while there is a lot of blue, there are also parts of silver. I think the blue might be some protective tape.

Yea now that I looked at it 

The blue hints do have a silver tone under them so it's probably protective plastic

[Haro]

5 minutes ago, Spotty said:

 

 

 

I appreciate the effort

[nick name]

I wanna know how they made the PCB so small.  And small usually means expensive.  Though I guess partners could go the opposite direction and make a "normal" sized PCB?

[Haro]

1 minute ago, nick name said:

normal" sized PCB?

Now normal sized pcbs will be the non reference with non reference power phase design standard 

Idk how I feel about that

[D13H4RD]

Not sure how I feel about it

 

Mostly because I'll just be using an AIB one anyway

[Bombastinator]

There seems to be thinking that this is the front and back of the same card.  What if it’s two different designs?

[Orangeator]

As much as I hate to admit it, this leak looks fairly legit. Not saying this is how an actual card will end up looking like for consumers... But, these are legit pictures of A RTX 3080. 

 

I hate the cooler design, looks bulky and heavy. 

[porina]

1 hour ago, Bombastinator said:

There seems to be thinking that this is the front and back of the same card.  What if it’s two different designs?

With the presented images that's not something we can definitively clear up, but I think it is plausible for it to be two faces of the same card design.

[RejZoR]

If anyone noticed, there are 2 fans on the card and there is one on each side (one on top side near a PCI bracket and another on the backplate side at the end of the card). interestingly, both fans are aligned in way to blow the air against the card from both sides. I'm just not sure where they are blowing at given the fans have closed sides of the blades which suggests focused directional airflow. But the other side is closed. Which is weird.

[Nayr438]

Judging by the fan blade design on each fan. It looks like it would pull air in from the bottom and push air out the back. So a blower design but with an exhaust fan to make sure cool air keeps flowing throughout the entire card instead of just exhausting excess air. Would make for a rather small pcb design.

 

11 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

If anyone noticed, there are 2 fans on the card and there is one on each side (one on top side near a PCI bracket and another on the backplate side at the end of the card). interestingly, both fans are aligned in way to blow the air against the card from both sides. I'm just not sure where they are blowing at given the fans have closed sides of the blades which suggests focused directional airflow. But the other side is closed. Which is weird.

look at the fan blade designs. they are directional. Ones a intake and ones a exhaust. 

[TrainFan475]

This looks like the type of card that would randomly appear in one of my dreams...

I hope that's not the final design because its ugly af. imo it would look a lot better if both fans were on the front like normal cards

[GoodBytes]

I find it interesting that the fan is close to the PCI bracket part where the ports are. And that it has a single fan. This would indicate that perhaps the GPU is consuming a lot less power than the RTX 2000 series.

 

That is unless that there is another fan hidden under the enclosure.

[TrainFan475]

7 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

I find it interesting that the fan is close to the PCI bracket part where the ports are. And that it has a single fan. This would indicate that perhaps the GPU is consuming a lot less power than the RTX 2000 series.

It appears to have two fans, one on each side

[porina]

12 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

If anyone noticed, there are 2 fans on the card and there is one on each side (one on top side near a PCI bracket and another on the backplate side at the end of the card). interestingly, both fans are aligned in way to blow the air against the card from both sides. I'm just not sure where they are blowing at given the fans have closed sides of the blades which suggests focused directional airflow. But the other side is closed. Which is weird.

Yes, I'm not an artist. The cooler side fan on the left here, could operate part blower style and exhaust through the rear (yellow arrows). But note the diagonal fins in the mid section. These flow the right way, so it could also exhaust through those for more cooling area (orange arrows).

 

The fan on the rear of the card I think could push air straight through (green arrows). So good airflow potential there. The area where it intakes from would be in front of the CPU cooler in a typical case so that should be mostly clean air. There is some risk the orange arrow heated air could find its way up to the green arrow intake, but in a typical case where the air intake is from the front of the case pushing backwards, I don't think that is too big a deal. The orange flow would be going against that though.

 

 

[Bombastinator]

7 minutes ago, TrainFan2020 said:

It has two fans, one on each side for some reason.

It may any way.  So one fan and low power, or two fan and small pcb.  The card does not look triple thick to me. In any case something odd appears to have been done.  

[Nayr438]

4 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

I find it interesting that the fan is close to the PCI bracket part where the ports are. And that it has a single fan. This would indicate that perhaps the GPU is consuming a lot less power than the RTX 2000 series.

 

That is unless that there is another fan hidden under the enclosure.

Not necessarily. As I mentioned above, Both Pictures show 2 different directional fan designs. One pulls air while one exhausts air. Looks like an attempt to move more air across the card. Whether that's for temperature reasons or acoustics is the question. It could theoretically result in a quieter card since it can move more cool air more efficiently rather than just excess, however if its a hotter card, I wouldn't expect acoustics to drop that much and this would just be a way of trying to tame the beast.

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

Not necessarily. As I mentioned above, Both Pictures show 2 different directional fan designs. One pulls air while one exhausts air. Looks like an attempt to move more air across the card. Whether that's for temperature reasons or acoustics is the question. It could theoretically result in a quieter card since it can move more cool air more efficiently rather than just excess, however if its a hotter card, I wouldn't expect acoustics to drop that much and this would just be a way of trying to tame the beast.

I’ve seen claims that the 3080 is lower power than the 2080.  I got no idea how true they are.

[Bananasplit_00]

looks extremely inefficient, dont hate it but its not like.. good

[Haro]

Just now, Kaloob said:

They look like XPS 700s to me:

Now I can't unsee it 

I hate you