Posted on Friday, August 10 2018 @ 13:34 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Word
is going around that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 2080 Founders Edition has a dual-fan design. VideoCardz
speculates this rumor is unlikely to be true, as it would imply that NVIDIA would compete even more with its own board partners. Then again, perhaps that is NVIDIA's intention? Larger margins for NVIDIA and greater control over the market. The company already tried the latter via GPP, but that didn't work out as planned.
This sounds crazy and it’s probably not true, but let’s just say it is. That would mean two things: it would likely not be a blower-type design and more importantly, that NVIDIA would be competing with their own board partners with an open-air cooling solution. In other words, the difference between reference design and custom design would be less significant. Which makes this rumor even less likely to be true.
On a related note, there's also
a statement from a GALAX representative. At ChinaJoy, GALAX revealed that the next-gen GeForce cards will arrive in September and that these will offer "breakthrough performance" and ray-tracing support. Here's the machine-translated statement:
A: The release time of the next-generation NVIDIA graphics card will not be far away. Players will be able to see the information about the new graphics card in September. The performance will certainly have a breakthrough growth, and will support the most advanced NVIDIA ray tracing technology. Game player is a good news!
Of course, GALAXY’s non-public version of the design is also in the process of planning, the next generation of new graphics will still follow the Hall of Fame, GAMER, the many advantages of the series, and innovate in the shape and heat, giving players a better game Experience and visual enjoyment, in order to enrich the needs of players, we plan to create a new series in the graphics card, specifically what shape and positioning, first give everyone a suspense, but I can guarantee that will not disappoint everyone!
Note: We still don't know whether the next-gen card will use 11xx or 20xx naming. NVIDIA is expected to announce the cards on August 20th.
