NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[beany_bot]

Thermals should be interesting...

 

[Jay85]

It also depends on just how hot the air is, i mentioned before that an open air cooler like triple fan dumps all the heat into the case, this is using the same kind of fans (axial) but configured so one is an exhaust and only one fan is putting warm air into the case. So overall it's not going to put as much heat into your case. I think this was tested on LTT and the difference between blower fans and open air was around 5c tops, so not as much as you would think.

Ah fair enough, that was my main concern (basing all this on vertical mounting btw) that blowing all that hot air onto the board where your chipset is, m.2 slots are etc might cause long term heat damage. In particular AMD X570 boards with the small fan on the chipset.

 

[Gerard]

Thermals should be interesting...

Pretty standard for a card with a backplate working as a heatsink.

 

[southy1978]

Sign me up for a 3090.

I have to work out if it’ll fit inside a Corsair 540!

It should fit, unless like me you have a 360mm rad stuffed in the front! I'm currently deciding options of whether to go 3080 which will fit or change case.

 

[danlightbulb]

Thermals should be interesting...

The Palit has something similar:

What a thing to put on a backplate... do these companies not have designers?

 

[HRL]

That is going to suck for mini-ITX systems!

Also,I hope people have decent CPU cooling,that hot air is being dumped right onto the motherboard!

I’ve got a Corsair 750D with three exhaust fans pulling hot air straight out the top of the case.

As far as I can tell the heat from a 3090 FE would literally be blown right out the top of the case rather than cooking the CPU. Will have to wait for reviews for more info though I guess.

Would think if you’ve a case with top mounted exhausts it shouldn’t really be a problem.

 

[JediFragger]

What a thing to put on a backplate... do these companies not have designers?

Tbf my 5700XT Gaming X should have the same, that backplate gets *toasty*!!

 

[EastCoastHandle]

Pretty standard for a card with a backplate working as a heatsink.

I don't recall that for the 2080ti

 

[KMarzo]

Can anyone recommend a couple of cases that could potentially work with a 3090 FE or even just the 3080?

 

[Gerard]

I don't recall that for the 2080ti

Some backplates aren't actually touching the pcb to transfer heat, they're merely decoration and don't get too warm, others are connected with thermal pads etc and can get hotter.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I’ve got a Corsair 750D with three exhaust fans pulling hot air straight out the top of the case.

As far as I can tell the heat from a 3090 FE would literally be blown right out the top of the case rather than cooking the CPU. Will have to wait for reviews for more info though I guess.

Would think if you’ve a case with top mounted exhausts it shouldn’t really be a problem.

It will in many mini-ITX cases though. The sandwich style ones,most definitely won't work that well with this design,as the case is in dual compartments. The front fan would get blocked,and that is without considering the board power too!

This is what I mean:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R5wFdMjlGoc/maxresdefault.jpg

 

[rchads89]

Save you one.... I may work for GIGABYTE but trust me, I'm at the front on the queue... Cyberpunk and Knight city here I come.....

Haha fair play

 

[rchads89]

Asus rog price increase already crikey!

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

The Palit has something similar:

What a thing to put on a backplate... do these companies not have designers?

Is this only on the 3090? I wonder if they are trying to passively cool the memory chips on the back.

 

[ubersonic]

Pretty standard for a card with a backplate working as a heatsink.

Actually it's normal for them to act as insulators, IIRC it was the reference GTX980s that dropped like 5-10c when you removed them.

Backplates are normally included to support the card and stop it bending over time.

 

[scubes]

Prices can change guys, either way remember that, it is very early days and pricing is yet to finalised by many board partners.
OcUK will aim to have largest range online and the very best prices with plenty of stock coming in.

I don’t like the sound of that. That to me means they can jack the price up buy about another £200 .

 

[Gerard]

Actually it's normal for them to act as insulators, IIRC it was the reference GTX980s that dropped like 5-10c when you removed them.

Backplates are normally included to support the card and stop it bending over time.

Depends on the backplate, if they're designed well they can pull heat away from the pcb, those backplates with cutouts around the gpu socket allow hot air to get shifted. As for rigidity, i don't think it does much to help stiffen the card at all, the usually still sag.

 

[LOAM]

If already posted, sorry

I truly can't stand that guy, he might well be presenting facts (I have no idea) but he's such a sanctimonious **** it's unbearable.

 

[MarkeR]

Thinking about a 3070 solely for use in my sim rig, are there any comparisions agaiunst a 1080ti out yet?

Thank you.

 

[EastCoastHandle]

Interesting theory. However, i don't see how this make sense for Nvidia. Assuming "later on" is less than 6 months

A few generations back I recall a time where gpus were released and there was disparity between cuda cores between skus. Later on Nvidia filled those skus with Ti variants leaving those who bought 1070, for example, to buy 1070 ti just to get the performance they should have had from the beginning. So I created this chart to keep track of this.



I see the same thing with vram. There is a disparity between 8/10GB vram and 24GB vram. And the notion that there won't be more vram added using existing skus simply comes off as impossible. Again, those with a 3070 re-buying 3070 just to get the vram they should have gotten from the beginning.

Sure, I'm speculating. However, I'm only speculating based on what Nvidia has done in the past.