Nvidia RTX 3080 Heatsink Uncovered – Design Confirmed?
Nvidia RTX 3080 Heatsink Uncovered – Design Confirmed?
If these leaks were illegitimate, Nvidia would have no reason to investigate them. If Nvidia is indeed investigating the leak, that alone would prove its legitimacy. This could be what Nvidia has planned for its RTX 3080 graphics card, and the fact that coolers are being manufactured is a good sign that Nvidia has a hardware launch planned within the next few months.Â
The image below comes via LeeJiangLee on Reddit, who has shown three of Nvidia’s bare heatsinks without any fans or surrounding materials. This is the core of Nvidia’s latest heatsink design, and it makes a lot of sense from a design perspective.Â
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This heatsink design is unlike anything that we have ever seen before, leading many to declare that the design must be a fake. While the design is a little unorthodox, it is hard to know exactly how this design works in practice. We must admit that the design is definitely striking enough to be worthy of Nvidia’s Founders Edition name, but does it have the cooling capabilities that high-end PC users demand?
Unlike Nvidia’s RTX 20 Founders Edition models, Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 design appears to feature heatpipes throughout its assembly. This move is a significant departure from Nvidia’s older designs, which typically use vapour chambers for their reference heatsinks.Â
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