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The graphics card has been fitted with a Turing GPU based on 12nm FinFet architecture, and with 18.6 billion transistors, it has 4352 active shader/stream cores, 68 RT cores, and 544 Tensor cores. This card has 11GB of GDDR6. For those that wonder, the board is populated with GDDR6 memory from Samsung, which tweaks a bit better. I already mentioned that there is no DVI connector. 

You won't hear the fan noise in low-load situations but the fans do remain active in IDLE mode, we'll look closer at the acoustic performance of the fans later in the article though. Check that carbon fiber backplate *whistles*

 
An RTX 2080 Ti card has a rated 275 Watt rated TDP. You can forget about that value with the Lightning Z though, MSI increased the power limiter at default, you'll be passing 300 Watts easily under load. Given what you have at hand, we doubt you mind that. The 19 PCB phases are fed through the PCIe slot (75 Watts), then 3x150 Watts through the 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connectors. So yeah, there should be plenty of amperage available.

The top right spot is the NVLINK connector. The backplate has vents for airflow but not heaps of them, in my book as that can trap heat. To the right of the dragon logo, you can see the location of the new OLED panel screen (monochrome). The Dynamic Dashboard allows you to monitor your LIGHTNING’s hardware information in real-time. However, it displays a lot of different things. You can even upload your own image or animation as well. 

That backplate then, it's carbon fiber, or at least for 90% of it. The inside actually has been fitted with a heat pipe and thermal Pads, as well as an extra RGB zone for the two lighting/lightning stripes.