NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards

[JediFragger]

but enough to say with certainty that RDNA 2 is decent and not a bag of rusty spanner’s

Agreed, as 5700XT was *damn* good for such a small chip and does well even against something like a 2080 value-wise. We're just not sure of performance yet, esp as because we don't know how AMD's RT with function (and if it will take much away from rasterization etc).

 

[keyser]

And the AIB coolers look like?

It a fake btw, know why? It's held together with just 2 screws. Now that would be impressive.

 

[keyser]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJaAtYnUKB/

RTX 3080 leak real-time render animation

This is my interpretation of the Nvidia RTX 3080 leak. Modeled in Fusion360 and rendered in real-time with Raytracing (RTX) in Unreal Engine 4.

I think this is incredibly inception (the movie) like thing I've ever done, an RTX 3080 RTX rendered with an RTX 2070 Super on UE4.

#unrealengine4 #rtxon #raytracing #nvidia #rtx #rtx3080 #3080 #realtime #render #leak #animation

Realistic looking speculation.

 

[opethdisciple]

I do hope the 850w PSU I bought in March is gonna be up to the task of powering a RTX 3080!

(I had bought a new case so thought of grabbing a new PSU at the same time. Mine was from 2012 but still going)

I was told at the time 850w was more than enough.

 

[varkanoid]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJaAtYnUKB/



Realistic looking speculation.

whats to bet this appears on some news site as a leaked video of the card !

 

[bru]

With the way the fins in the red area are curved like that air isn't going to be able to travel trough to the other fan.

If the idea is to have a trough flow then it seems badly designed to me. i mean a fan on the back unless it is deeply in bedded, it will makes the card very thick

I'm reckoning its a bad idea and probably completely bogus. but as always only time will tell.

 

[danlightbulb]

Do people actually buy the founders cards? What's the point? They are always worse /noisier coolers than the AIBs. If genuine then this one looks prettier than most but still why would you not wait for AIBs?

 

[smilertoo]

Design looks like it's using 1 fan to exhaust air out the back and one to exhaust into the case.

 

[keyser]

Yeah I didn't actually look at any videos of that design until now. If it turns out to be real, lol.

I'll bite:

• middle heatsinks that cool down the GPU are passively cooled
• where are the heat pipes?
• The PCIE power sockets are coming out the end of the card meaning not enough room in a lot of cases

 

[bru]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJaAtYnUKB/



Realistic looking speculation.

Ok now that looks a bit more sensible, but surely its backwards step as instead of previously using two fans on the major heatsink it would only be the front, bracket end fan that is directly cooling the main heatsink.

I still think it is completely bogus. Anyway, most of the AIB's would ignore this concept anyway. In fact NVidia would probably patent it so other couldn't use it.

 

[BigBANGtheory]

won't that design blow hot air straight onto the PCIe M2 slot SSD? at least on the modern Ryzen boards...

 

[bru]

Yeah I didn't actually look at any videos of that design until now. If it turns out to be real, lol.

I'll bite:

• middle heatsinks that cool down the GPU are passively cooled
• where are the heat pipes?
• The PCIE power sockets are coming out the end of the card meaning not enough room in a lot of cases

All very good points.

From the original photo, can somebody work out how long the card is from the length of the fingerless PCie slot. (which I've only just noticed.)

 

[TNA]

I do hope the 850w PSU I bought in March is gonna be up to the task of powering a RTX 3080!

(I had bought a new case so thought of grabbing a new PSU at the same time. Mine was from 2012 but still going)

I was told at the time 850w was more than enough.

Of course it will! Unless one feeding it silly amounts of power to overclock I see no reason why not.

 

[Stu999]

Definitely going third party / AIB was partner card if that design is legit.

 

[varkanoid]

Do people actually buy the founders cards? What's the point? They are always worse /noisier coolers than the AIBs. If genuine then this one looks prettier than most but still why would you not wait for AIBs?

A lot of people buy them take the cooler off and put a waterblock on.

 

[danlightbulb]

A lot of people buy them take the cooler off and put a waterblock on.

Ah yes, in which case the cooler design is irrelevant anyway.

 

[montymint]

was reading an article today that that cooler costs $150 to make.

These launch cards aren't gonna be cheap.

 

[HRL]

Do people actually buy the founders cards? What's the point? They are always worse /noisier coolers than the AIBs. If genuine then this one looks prettier than most but still why would you not wait for AIBs?

Depends if the FE is £200 cheaper TBH.

 

[smilertoo]

FE release first dont they...hence the markup.

 

[melmac]

They do not 'have to be better' (I assume you mean faster) than Nvidia' to be a success, they have to be at least almost as good, and cheaper. It's clear that a lot of people are ready to buy AMD if they can deliver competitive performance to Nvidis for a more reasonable price.

Sorry, but, no, Been almost as good and cheaper has been the way they have operated for the 10-12 years. They aren't going to win mindshare by been almost as good. If they haven't the best GPUs at their price level, people will buy the Nvidia card, even if it is more expensive. That has been proven time and time again.

If AMD want success in the GPU market they are going to have give people a reason to change. Giving good Price/performance has only got them a few moral victories but no real change in their mostly decreasing market share.