The GeForce RTX 3080 Photoshoot / unboxing
The GeForce RTX 3080 Photoshoot / Unboxing
It's September 10th, and NVIDIA has allowed media to post a couple of photos on the product that we are currently testing, that's the GeForce RTX 3080. We'll save the best for last, meaning the review. But below a handful of photos shot in-house, from the Guru3D test-grounds. You've sifted through our article I presume, the GeForce RTX 3080 is based on an alternative of the 8 nm "GA102" silicon, with 8,704 shader cores, 68 2nd generation RT cores, 272 3rd generation Tensor cores, 272 TMUs, and 96 ROPs.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition is delivered ina very premium box, soft-touch paperboard box. The bundled items include an adapter that converts two 8-pin PCIe power inputs to a 12-pin power connector and documentation.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition card feels premium when you have it in your hands, there is very high detail to the finish of the product. The most obvious is of course the unusual fan configuration.
The IO panel is used as an air vent and shows four display connectors, three DisplayPort 1.4, and one HDMI 2.1 connector that will bring 8K 60 Hz HDR to a single HDMI cable. No more USB type-C VirtualLink connector, as that one is going the way of the dodo.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition measures in at 29 cm in length and is 11 cm in height. it is precisely two slots thick, so no weird 2.5 slot configuration or something. It weighs in at a proper 1.35 kg, which is a very normal weight these days.
Here we can see the new 12-pin (MicroFit 3.0) connector. it is an oddity alright, it would work with native PSU cables quite well, the adapter however is a bit clumsy and difficult to hide. The advantage though is the connector can pass at least 300 watts of power, twice that of an 8-pin PCIe connector.
The card will look great on a dark design PC, but even on an open test-bench, that's a good looking product.
Yeah, we're busy alright. More content will be posted on the 16th, and pretty much all months after that ;)
