The GDDR6X technology they choosed is specifically designed to handle 100+ temperatures
About the capacitor issue, as long as the card follows the reference design with at least 1 mlcc the card is fine enough. Of course I would never buy day one without reading reviews. And those are as planed. The manufacturer have the same line up and strategy as before. Asus being the top, evga having a mix of high and middle tiers, gigabyte and mis being at the middle, and zotac the same usual low tier. The price follows the quality of the integrated components, so that's also a hint
For me, as an owner of a 2080ti I will skip that gen and I've ordered to watercool my 2089ti last week
From IgorLab's article.... It seems like overclocking the 3080 FE (maybe AiB are better???) a bit will hit 112C memory temp and without OC it's running at 104C. If I remember correctly, GDDR6X should start throttling at 110C and at 120C it starts breaking. This is at Igor's testing scenario with an optimal airflow. Now imagine this card in a case with non-optimal airflow, its probably going to hit 110 without OC
. We are already seeing crashes on FE, TUF and basically most cards which mean the mlcc and sp-cap are probably just one of the issues causing it. We all know how delicate the power delivery is already and with 112C Memory being that close to the capacitor. I'
m not sure about the temperature rating on both types of capacitor but this can't be good right? I mean just look at the ASUS TUF card, it even has a separate smaller
heat sink just for the VRAM. One of the reason I think Aquacomputer is doing a great job is that, the active backplate is going to hopefully help in reducing the temperature on the backside (Can someone please confirm with this?)