RTX 3080 image (maybe?)

[Master Disaster]

These look so fake. Theres no way Nvidia would orient the text like that, its upside down when the cards in the slot or even if a PCIe riser is used.

 

I'd bet my left nut someone made it on a 3D Printer and glued it to another card.

[Haro]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

These look so fake. Theres no way Nvidia would orient the text like that, its upside down when the cards in the slot or even if a PCIe riser is used.

 

Since it's an early design it's possible 

Usually leaks with a card's shroud only has the shroud and not the pcb 

 

[Tech_Dreamer]

I'm confused, The bottom cards PCIE inteface should be on the opposite side right? if that portion facing us is the bottom part, imagine how it's fitted in . it doesn't make sense.

 

[williamcll]

BTW add this to the source as well:

https://www.chiphell.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2226236

[Spotty]

14 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

These look so fake. Theres no way Nvidia would orient the text like that, its upside down when the cards in the slot or even if a PCIe riser is used.

The "RTX 3080" writing would be facing the correct way. That's the top of the card, the backplate.
If you're using a vertical GPU mount you wouldn't see it as it would be facing the motherboard.

[Master Disaster]

13 minutes ago, Spotty said:

The "RTX 3080" writing would be facing the correct way. That's the top of the card, the backplate.
If you're using a vertical GPU mount you wouldn't see it as it would be facing the motherboard.

The backplate has a fan mounted on it? That would mean that entire fan exists to blow on to the PCB. Plus as @Tech_Dreamer pointed out, the PCIe slot is on the wrong side of the card to the mounting bracket.

 

There's no way to orient that shroud on that PCB in a way that fits, if you rotate the shroud the bracket is on the wrong end of the card and if its upside down (so bottom on top and top on bottom) then the bracket is still misaligned with the slot.

 

They've obviously taken a short PCB and created something to fit it on a 3D Printer, it looks like that fan must go all the way through as the backplate is way to close to the PCB to fit a fan in the gap.

[Haro]

3 minutes ago, Escanor said:

Time to start saving up for gpu upgrade alto probably gonna aim for evga rtx 3080 ti with water block pre installed probably unless that block is crap.

If your coming from Turing 

Upgrading I would say would be pointless the performance improvement is still unclear and obviously the price will be a surprise for all of us lol

[illegalwater]

10 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

The backplate has a fan mounted on it? That would mean that entire fan exists to blow on to the PCB. Plus as @Tech_Dreamer pointed out, the PCIe slot is on the wrong side of the card to the mounting bracket.

[Spotty]

11 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

The backplate has a fan mounted on it? That would mean that entire fan exists to blow on to the PCB. Plus as @Tech_Dreamer pointed out, the PCIe slot is on the wrong side of the card to the mounting bracket.

... It's weird.
Pay attention to the IO bracket and the orientation of the PCIe fingers. Look at where the PCIe locking tab is. That will give you a good idea of which way it goes in.

 

Spoiler

 

[Void Master]

3 minutes ago, Spotty said:

. It's weird.
Pay attention to the IO bracket and the orientation of the PCIe fingers. Look at where the PCIe locking tab is. That will give you a good idea of which way it goes in.

 

So the GPU will suck air in from the top (near the CPU cooler).

It would definitely look better ,but what about airflow and temps ?

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, System32.exe said:

SNIP

 

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

... It's weird.
Pay attention to the IO bracket and the orientation of the PCIe fingers. Look at where the PCIe locking tab is. That will give you a good idea of which way it goes in.

 

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Yeah, you guys are correct. For some reason I though the connector should be at the back of the card (I was thinking of AGP I think). Still how does that backplate fan fit in the gap between the shroud and the PCB? Is it a short PCB with the fan running straight through from back to front?

[DildorTheDecent]

Not going to matter once there's a waterblock on it.

 

Fan near the PCI-E bracket is intake. Fan on the other side is likely the exhaust. ez.

[porina]

12 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Is it a short PCB with the fan running straight through from back to front?

That would be my best guess. High airflow should be possible. I always found "conventional" GPUs a bit weird in that they blow air onto the PCB but there's not really much space for it to go from there apart from the limited space at the edges.

[Spotty]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

 

Yeah, you guys are correct. For some reason I though the connector should be at the back of the card (I was thinking of AGP I think). Still how does that backplate fan fit in the gap between the shroud and the PCB? Is it a short PCB with the fan running straight through from back to front?

@System32.exe posted a good pic above from the article listed in the OP.

 

The PCB stops before it gets to the fan, at least that's what appears to be the case from the photos.

9 minutes ago, System32.exe said:

 

 

 

I do wonder what the top fan is supposed to be cooling. There must be heatpipes that run the full length of the card?? Otherwise the fan on the PCB side would just be cooling some aluminium fins not attached to anything.

Spoiler

(you get the idea)

 

 

 

13 minutes ago, Void Master said:

So the GPU will suck air in from the top (near the CPU cooler).

It would definitely look better ,but what about airflow and temps ?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If this is real you'd need to wait for benchmarks and also compare to more traditional coolers once AIB partners release their custom designs.

 

I would be interested to know if such a design would be better when used in a multi GPU setup, as the top card would be able to pull fresh air in from the top.

 

And of course keep in mind these are just rumours and "leaked" pics, so this might not be the real deal.

[Haro]

7 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

i'd wonder if the power delivery stuff would be reduced compared to the 20-series cards o_o

I mean they are running 7nm (likely) so my guess would be ( assuming this is the pcb size ) that it will have less power phases but will ultimately not need the extra ones as it will be way more efficient 

That would be my guess 

[Haro]

One quick question 

So at the end of the day this design has 2 fans one as intake and one as exhaust

One being on the backplate and the other would be in the usual spot 

 

[Tan3l6]

The positioning of fins on the image of OP first post seems strange, as if the radiator is partitioned into separate areas. Strange.

[porina]

19 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

Fan near the PCI-E bracket is intake. Fan on the other side is likely the exhaust. ez.

I hadn't picked up on that earlier. The fans are not the same, with the curvature differing in orientation between them. What I'm not sure is if the PCB side fan sucks or blows. So on regular fans, the air moves from the convex side to the concave side. I can't say with 100% certainty, but I think it is convex side out, thus both fans push conventionally. If there is some benefit to have them rotating in opposite directions, I don't know. Was it Gigabyte who did that on some of their GPUs? Where fans are next to each other, having them rotate opposite like cogs means they work with each other at the interface, rather than against. But I'm really not sure on that.

 

It also doesn't help it looks like there's two strong light sources hitting the PCB side fan in the image, so part looks like they could have inverted it to make it flow opposite to convention, that is, blows towards the mounting frame side which is presumably inside the card as it isn't visible outside. 

 

8 minutes ago, Spotty said:

I do wonder what the top fan is supposed to be cooling. There must be heatpipes that run the full length of the card?? Otherwise the fan on the PCB side would just be cooling some aluminium fins not attached to anything.

That's my assumption too. You need to get the heat out there. Heatpipes are commonplace anyway in GPU coolers, so this is no stretch. 

 

6 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

let's talk about the PCB though o_o if the FE design is shorter, i'd wonder if the power delivery stuff would be reduced compared to the 20-series cards o_o

If they switched to HBM, that would save a load of board area compared to GDDR. There's still power delivery. The 2080 for example is 215W TDP, so I would hope there is some improvement to efficiency, although don't know if they'll use that to lower power, or instead burn the savings to have even more performance. 

[porina]

4 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

One quick question 

So at the end of the day this design has 2 fans one as intake and one as exhaust

One being on the backplate and the other would be in the usual spot 

I don't see a question there as such. And I'm not convinced one of the fans is exhaust. They both look like they blow in to me.

[Nayr438]

4 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

One quick question 

So at the end of the day this design has 2 fans one as intake and one as exhaust

One being on the backplate and the other would be in the usual spot 

 

Yes. I think a lot of people are overlooking the fact that the blade designs are different on each fan (directional) and assuming they both blow in, rather than one blowing out. They are however directional based on design. It will pull air in from the front bottom and exhaust out of the rear top.

[Void Master]

11 minutes ago, Spotty said:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If this is real you'd need to wait for benchmarks and also compare to more traditional coolers once AIB partners release their custom designs.

 

I would be interested to know if such a design would be better when used in a multi GPU setup, as the top card would be able to pull fresh air in from the top.

 

And of course keep in mind these are just rumours and "leaked" pics, so this might not be the real deal.

Imagine this a rendered picture NVIDIA posted somewhere just to demonstrate how much RTX ON improved....

oh boi... the most extreme case scenario.

1 minute ago, TofuHaroto said:

One quick question 

So at the end of the day this design has 2 fans one as intake and one as exhaust

One being on the backplate and the other would be in the usual spot 

 

Yes, and it makes no sense for me, the power connector placement through the heatsink is so sketchy, and will make Steve from Games Nexus mourn even more during disassembly and maintenance. I can't imagine the amount of glue they will use in this thing....  

[Haro]

1 minute ago, porina said:

I don't see a question there as such. And I'm not convinced one of the fans is exhaust. They both look like they blow in to me.

This whole design is a mystery 

I guess we should wait for the launch

[Nayr438]

7 minutes ago, porina said:

I don't see a question there as such. And I'm not convinced one of the fans is exhaust. They both look like they blow in to me.

It would be ineffective for the one I have showing as blowing out to blow in, the airflow would be fairly minimal due to the blade design.

[porina]

6 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

It would be ineffective for the one I have showing as blowing out to blow in, the airflow would be fairly minimal due to the blade design.

I accept that the rotation direction is different than the other fan, but the curvature of the blades isn't clear. Look again, can you say with certainty it is concave side outwards? That would be the tell it is exhaust. The lighting and shadows makes it really hard to say that.

[Haro]

 

1 minute ago, porina said:

I accept that the rotation direction is different than the other fan, but the curvature of the blades isn't clear. Look again, can you say with certainty it is concave side outwards? That would be the tell it is exhaust. The lighting and shadows makes it really hard to say that.

and the exposure 

holy that picture doesnt look good