now unfortunately i can't really tell you guys
any of the stuff that we may or may not know yet
about the GeForce rtx 3080 founders
edition because i'd be lying if i said that uh it hasn't already been on a test
bench but what i can do is open up the box for your real nice
styles this my friends if you have yourself a cool
699 dollars
is what will arrive in your homestead so
let's take a quick look at it this is my first
hands-on even though it's actually feels still slightly warm from Anthony
maybe allegedly playing around with it so let's start with oh fine we'll do the
unboxing thing okay so in here you've got a
dual eight pin there it is eight pin pci
express power connectors two single
miniature 12 pin that's really cool so the new 12 pin is actually
smaller than the old 8 pin in spite of the fact that it can carry
significantly more power well that's pretty spicy
also of course if you've got a modular power supply you don't even need to use
this you can get fresh new cables from your power supply
manufacturer assuming that they've got support for it also in here a GeForce support guide
what do you even put in these quick start look at this
book it's a novel plug the thing into the thing plug the other thing into the
thing all right so some of the big features of rtx 3000
series are of course NVIDIA's new ampere architecture giving us better
performance in basically every meaningful way from conventional
games to uh novel concepts like ray traced
lighting in games or machine learning to upsample rendering the game at a lower
resolution and then displaying it on a higher resolution screen it's got
10 gigs of gddr6x video memory which is
a huge bandwidth boost over the previous gddr6
and one of the big ones here is of course the extraordinarily
unconventional cooler design so what we're used to seeing
is your i o at the back so you've got three DisplayPort and a single HDMI
2.1 that's right my friends up to 8k resolution
right down here is the pci express gen 4 16x connector all that looks pretty
normal so far right up here is the slr no no sli there will be no sli
except on the rtx 3090 NVIDIA's basically saying well if you want to go
overkill you might as well go over kill putting what is effectively
the final nail in the coffin of sli and then in other unusual news
we've got uh the fan on the back so
this is pretty normal AMD has even done reference designs NVIDIA has done
reference designs with fans blowing down towards the pcb
like this and then exhausting kind of you know out like this or out the back
so you can see that right here we've never seen a full-on intake fan on
the back of a card and you know what now that they've done
it i guess it makes a ton of sense because if you can
pull air in right here where the fresh air is
actually coming in from the front of the
case no i actually still don't understand why
they didn't just put the fan on this side let me think about this for a minute
the pcb is here and it's actually it's
actually shaped like this which is crazy town and then what they've got to
do is the GPU which is right around here they've actually got to bend the heat
pipes up and away so you can actually see them there so
you can't put the fan on this side because the heat pipes have to be here so obviously you got to
put the fan over on this side because you got your cold air coming in
here you've got your more conventional style
fan right here that's just taking that cold air and blowing it
out the back of the card and then like yeah over here
a little bit so kind of out like this way okay so you got that
and then this one is actually a super unconventional design so if you look at
the uh the design of the blades here it's
totally different from this fan
see that conventional fan spins like that blows air down
this fan spins like i believe it's like
this yes and pulls air up here so it's so the
graphics card is basically hogging all the cool air coming into your case and then being like hey CPU
guess what you're a lower priority for gaming so here you go
which might actually have an impact on some people's setups depending on how
borderline they are but unless you're kind of pushing your your
you know tower cooler to the limit with an overclock or whatever the case may be i
suspect you'll probably be okay before we go any further
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andy was mentioning that there is some confusion
about whether this is a reference card now in the past
it was quite common to release sort of like
a design guideline pcb founders edition
cards have sort of been referred to as reference cards
interchangeably in the past with what made them a founders versus a reference card being
the fancy aluminum cooler over the last few years
but NVIDIA is making it very clear that while this
is a founder's card it is not a reference card and there's a
separate reference card that doesn't have this unusual shape another thing that we
wanted to discuss is what this card could potentially mean
for small form factor enthusiasts because
the unconventional layout
uh what with the 45 degree angled 12-pin
power connector coming out here i guess the the airflow design is pretty
standard-ish i mean it's all going this way
which we're used to seeing right
yeah okay that's that's true
actually so if you're using anything like a Dan case for example
then this this airflow is going to be completely blocked
you'd have to have something more conventional where it's right next to
the the cooler so anything that uses a pci express riser
to lay the car down flat you're pretty much going to be stuffed
water cooling this puppy i'm actually really interested to see how water
cooling manufacturers approach this challenge so i'll be
interested to see if they have kind of like ep and extension back plates on them in
order to make them look a little bit heftier when they're installed the uk
water block is only 23 centimeters long with that space you
can pretty much like fit ddc pump in your small form
factor case that's a design that i'd like to see a
block for this card that's actually designed with a ddc mount right off of
the back of it or something like that so you could just have the whole thing
integrated in the space where normally you would just have a graphics card
now in terms of performance i can't share anything with you other than what NVIDIA has already published on their
website which is that they're saying it's way faster than the rtx 2080 and
even faster than the rtx 2080 ti in spite of not
even being the kingpin rtx 3000 card
that's of course the rtx 3090 which is more
like a titan replacement and i think that's all the time we have for today folks because we got to put
this thing back on the test bench so we can have our full performance review
looking at not just performance actually but also some of the new features so dlss
2.1 which is their latest iteration of their
up sampling as well as some of their NVIDIA broadcast
features which are supposed to make life easier for streamers and of course i'm really excited to
check out their low latency reflex technology and see if my like
what does it have an effect on image quality in order to give you that
better click to photon response time we'll have to see
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