Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 is shown in the first unofficial photo
As you can see, this GPU boasts a somewhat different design from that of the Founders Edition Turing and Pascal: the style is less sober and classic, and somewhat original. This model includes two fans located on opposite surfaces: it is plausible that the lower one supports a considerable static pressure, while the upper one is mostly used to blow the hot air away from the board.
Equally interesting is the dense network of slats surrounding the two fans. Maybe Nvidia has studied a particular design that allows to better dissipate the heat from the die. What is certain is that this choice gives this GPU an appealing look, far from the anonymous and faithful design of the previous Founders.
The metal chassis that continues towards the center takes care of delimiting the cooling units of the panel, forming an "X" motif, another stylistic choice that should enhance the "look" of this version. Obviously these are only hypotheses; who knows, maybe it's really an engineering sample of the RTX 3080, but Team Green could still opt for another design in progress.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 should be marketed in Q4 this year , probably during the holiday season. We hope the presentation will be held sooner, perhaps at Computex 2020. According to initial rumors, this GPU will be based on GA103, will have 60 SMO (Streaming Multiprocessor) ergo 3840 CUDA core and 10GB of GDDR6 VRAM operating with a 320 bit bus.
According to the latest rumors of the corridor it seems however, that the next generation card could see an improvement in specifications, moving to the GA102-200 chip and a total of 4352 CUDA cores. The amount of VRAM instead would always remain 10GB.
there Are rumors that it will offer the overall performance of higher than 10% compared to those of a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080Ti , and four times higher with the use of the ray tracing. The family Amps should be produced with the production process to 7nm of TSMC, but we still don't know which variant of the above-mentioned node.
ultimately, the performance and the technical details of the new proposals of the Team Green still remain a mystery for the experts, however, and not fans are hoping that the new generation will play finally in 4K and with a solid frame rate of 60fps, without having to spend a fortune.
If you do not want to wait for the new proposals of Nvidia and AMD, but you want to still have fun in Ultra HD you should consider buying a Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super , which I consider to be the best GPU high-end that the market has to offer, currently.
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