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The clown cardsAh, the memories.
It has been said, from legit sources, that the cooler alone costs $150 each to make. That's not sold on to us as a profit, that is the cost to make each one.
When you make a cooler like that at that price you are so far up your own a**e that all reality is gone. Nvidia want to be Apple *so* bad. However, for someone to actually get away with that you need to offer something that your buyers will see as truly exclusive. Not just the fastest (which I have absolutely no doubt it will be) but also the most exquisitely built.
According to that article the FE has the cut out for the cooler but the ones for Board Partners will be the regular rectangle shape. They also claim cost of the FE cooler is $150USD.
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.
Might go for the 3090 this time.![]()
It's a split pcb design - one fan and one heatsink cools just the power delivery pcb and the second fan and second heatsink cools just the gpu core and memory pcb
Basically all speculation "sources" or not. Throw enough **** at a wall and some of it is gonna stick. Remember how all the "sources" got the fury x wrong in terms of hbm? One minute it was 4 gig, then 6 gig then 8 gig, then up and down until it was revealed it was 4 gig, then they can point to their 4 gig "source story" and proclaim they were right while sticking their fingers in the ear and whistling Dixie if anyone brings up the articles that "sources" got wrong. Just seems more like tech sites pulling numbers out of the air once they spot an unusual cooler design citing a random $150 to make for clicks++.
@ALXAndy
Just spit balling some ideas here. Let us assume that it is going to cost $150 for the cooler alone. Why would they design such a cooler unless they need it? They could have literally slapped on the current FE coolers add a few visual tweaks and jobs done. Keep all the extra money for themselves. But they didn't. They designed a new cooler from the grounds up.
What if they simply cannot use the current FE coolers on these new 3000 series cards?
Comparing the renders and the images of the 3080 cooler, to the RTX 2080ti cooler (link) it seems like there is more fin surface area on the 3080 cooler.
If you scroll down the chart here you will see that the TDP for the A100 chip is 100W higher than then V100 it is replacing. Edit: That is with a 20% reduction to boost speeds
If the assumptions are correct i reckon they've had to do this to keep temperatures in check.
Wow... $150 even taking into account economies of scale? I would be very (unpleasantly) surprised if it's true.$150 just for heatsink and 2 fans?
https://www.techpowerup.com/268278/...ts-usd-150-by-itself-to-feature-in-three-skus
LOLs will be had if that turns out to be true.![]()
I think the partner cards will take twice as long to appear as in the past.
Anyway you never know AMD might do a Ryzen and bring out a product to sway the masses away like they did against Intel this time round.
I read what he said and it was basically "If AMD isn't faster they will not gain any market share". It doesn't matter whether he said across all product lines or not, as the principle is the same and AMD will anyway be judged by their performance of initial releases of RDNA2, which will be at the high-end. They just have to be as competitive as possible and not lag behind too much, while being better value, and they will sell a bucketload.If you read his post he said
AMD will need a strong lineup across the board to gain any meaningful market share not just at high end which the average Joe doesn't really care about.
Did Nvidia need to make Founder's Editions in the first place? no. Greed. Now they are just showing off, just like the people who will buy them. Remember, when someone buys a FE 100% of the profits go to Nvidia. So that "gap" they leave for OEMs like MSI and so on doesn't need to be there. So, on something like a 2080Ti a $70 cooler made little difference, given the profits they were raking in (record ones remember? just like they boasted of). Now see, I was not expecting that but then that just shows that whilst I am rather cynical I am rather naive. I thought the lack of people paying those daft prices for the 20 series would hurt them but it seems I had it all wrong.
"What goes up but doesn't come down?" prices.
There's no such thing as more than enough with PSUs. I learnt that when my EVGA G2 1300W struggled and caused crashes on 295X2 quadfire andI 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.