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The graphics card has been fitted with a Turing GPU based on 12nm FinFet architecture, and with 13.6 billion transistors, it has 2944 active shader/stream cores, 46 RT cores, and 368 Tensor cores. This card has 8GB of GDDR6. I already mentioned that there is no DVI connector. Included is a DP to DVI converter, it, however, is a passive one. I tried it but it was a mess, screen resolution issues, and corruption. I'm afraid we can not recommend you this card on DVI at this time.

Check out the back side where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate present; there are a no ventilation gaps though, I'd like to see that improved (gaps and meshes). This might look good, but it is guaranteed to trap heat. At the back side, you will see an RTX 2080 logo. Due to the new and effective cooling design, the many Nvidia limiters hardly, or do not at all kick in (under normal gaming conditions) preventing this card from throttling most of the time, we'll check that with the temp tests of course. The GeForce RTX 2080 display engine is capable of supporting the latest higher resolution displays, including the latest 4K, 5K and 8K screens.

The card has a 225 Watt rated TDP, 75 Watts is delivered through the PCIe slot, then 1x75W and 1x150 Watts through the 6- and 8-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) power connectors. We've always had our comments about the blower style coolers from NVIDIA, they allowed a thermal threshold of 80 degrees, the card, however, will not reach that value (preventing it from heavy throttling).

The new two fan (13 blade) cooler design should be much better in that respect. And as long as the cards do not hit too high a temperature target, of course, they will not throttle down, and in fact can even be clocked higher. The power delivery system has been rebuilt for GeForce RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, starting with the all-new 13-phase iMON DrMOS power supply, it should offer cleaner power delivery. Of particular note here is a new ability to arbitrarily switch off power delivery phases for reduced power consumption at low workloads, which increases power efficiency, increasing phases normally increases wattage in low power modes (idle). So if you're not doing anything demanding with the graphics card, the net result is less active power phases.