GeForce RTX 3080: NVIDIA's new GPU finally shows itself live

In the past few hours, the very first images of the new graphics card of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. According to reports from wccftech, the American company is planning to launch the new hardware on the market by the holiday season of 2020, so they should already be available on the occasion of the Computex 2020, which due to the health emergency caused by the coronavirus will be held exclusively digitally.

As can be seen from the images, which you can easily find at the bottom of the article, the new one GeForce RTX 3080 it will feature a completely revamped design, bi-directional fans, rugged PCB and a curved heat sink. Here are some key considerations made by wccftech colleagues on the design of the new home GPU NVIDIA:

• The fans will be bi-directional. One will have an open suction at the bottom, while the other will have an open suction at the top. Also, it would appear that the lower fan is static pressure, while the upper fan releases air, in an attempt to keep the air flowing through the fins.
• The heat sink is curved. This is a very interesting design because it would normally interrupt airflow, but NVIDIA would appear to be attempting a full push setup that would rely on pressure differentials to maintain airflow.
• The PCB has irregular shapes and ends once it reaches the heat sink. In the following image, only the gray plastic part of the RTX 3080 houses the PCB, the fan section does not. This would confirm previous rumors that had indicated a small, irregularly shaped PCB for NVIDIA's upcoming Ampere GPUs.
• The one portrayed in the photo will most likely be one Founder's Edition, in quite limited quantities. A design like this would be incredibly difficult to work with and AIBs would almost certainly prefer to continue with the traditional Heatpipe and triple fan design.

Furthermore, according to rumors, the GeForce RTX 3080 will be shipped together with one GA104 GPU, effectively replacing the current RTX 2080 with 48 SM (3072 CUDA cores), and will be accompanied by 8GB / 16GB of vRAM and a 256-bit bus width.