A well known leaker with an excellent monitor report has printed what the consumer claims to be the primary picture of Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Version graphics card. The board (or relatively its cooling system) appears brand-new, however for the reason that units are packaged into an antistatic bag, not many particulars could be seen.
Elysian Realm (@KittyYYuko (opens in new tab)) was comparatively correct with preliminary details about Nvidia’s Ampere again in March 2020 (1, 2); now, the leaker is again with an alleged picture of Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 Founders Version board. For the reason that picture comes from an unofficial supply, albeit with an excellent monitor report, one ought to take it with a grain of salt. The {photograph} raises extra questions than it offers solutions.
The very first thing that strikes the attention within the image is that the board continues to make use of the design language of the GeForce RTX 30-series merchandise (that are amongst the finest gaming graphics playing cards as we speak, so to talk). But, one other factor that instantly attracts consideration is the unusual font used for the ‘4080’ mannequin quantity. It might not point out that this can be a faux picture (and should indicate that the board is genuine) because the font corresponds to the font Nvidia makes use of on its web site, as famous by VideoCardz (opens in new tab). One other oddity is that we don’t see mounts of the bracket.
The cardboard doesn’t seem like something we’ve got seen earlier than. The board is dual-wide (just like the RTX 3080), nevertheless it appears as tall and so long as the GeForce RTX 3090/3090 Ti. It additionally has a distinct fan with a refined blade design, which means that this can be a new board, not a GeForce RTX 30-series with a 4080 sticker. In the meantime, the fan appears to be as massive because the one on the GeForce RTX 3090 (which is logical) and is thicker than the one utilized by the dual-slot GeForce RTX 3080, which is why it stands out greater than it does on the RTX 3080.
From a earlier leak protecting Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 40-series merchandise, we all know that the mannequin RTX 4080 is meant to be primarily based on the AD103 graphics processing unit, which isn’t the most important and essentially the most power-hungry GPU within the lineup. Subsequently, boards primarily based on it don’t require a considerable cooling system flagship boards like these powered by Nvidia’s ‘massive ferocious’ GA102 GPUs (aka BFGPUs). In the meantime, AD103 is projected to be extra energy hungry than Nvidia’s GA103/104 (which is used for GeForce RTX 3080 merchandise); therefore the utilization of a ‘taller’ dual-wide heatsink appears to be justified.
In any case, whereas the cardboard doesn’t appear to be a Frankenstein created out of GeForce RTX 30-series Founders Version elements, however is one thing new. But, we can not state for certain that that is the upcoming GeForce RTX 4080 board.
