Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme in Review – Lost in RGB | igorsLAB

1 - Unboxing, Daten, Testsystem 2 - Teardown und Analyse 3 - Benchmarks und OC 4 - Leistungsaufnahme im Detail 5 - Temperatur, Takt, Infrarot 6 - Lüfter und Lautstärke 7 - Zusammenfassung

RGB lettering on top? Has everyone. A nice RGB logo in the backplate? Yawn. Illuminated RGB fans? There are already. But what about real light effects on the rotor blades? Some people who are looking for the ultimate difference and would like to be paralyzed by the stroboscope effect will now sharpen their ears. At least that's what she must have thought of Gigabyte's marketing when planning the Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme. Pleasantly more bling for the people, spoke the marketing and so it was built…

Seriously, however, Aorus has, in a way, started the RGB flight forward, which is not even negatively mean. Anyone who thinks you have such a glittering boliden in your PC will be able to give up your tedious search here and will certainly be settled in the long run. But you just have to like such a mouse cinema. And since everything has its price and of course with 1357 grams also its corresponding weight, one immediately gives the buyer a small-piece graphic card holder. support once interpreted differently, fits.

The heavy card is 29.7 cm long, measures 13 cm from top edge slot panel to top edge graphic card housing and is 5.2 cm thick. In addition, there is another 0.5 cm for the blackened backplate. This means that it can already encounter space problems if housings are too small. The cover is made of plastic in the base with mounted light metal applications in Gunmetal optics. And of course there is still a lot of (background) illuminated surface, including the rotor blades.

The rather large installation depth of more than 5 cm is also due to the two on-the-top fans and the counter-rotating fan in the middle, each with a rotor blade diameter of 9.5 cm, over which space is then required once again for the crossbar with the LED strips, which are used for the luminous effects. However, this blower-monumental structure also required compromises on the radiator itself, as we will see in the course of the test.

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The solution with the video outputs is interesting. Aorus relies on a PI3WVR13612, i.e. a DP/HDMI video switch, which results in six connectivity options at the end with 3x HDMI 2.0 and 3x DisplayPort. Two of the DisplayPort ports correspond to two HDMI ports and can only be used optionally.

For multi-monitor systems with DisplayPort or VR glasses with 2x HDMI, this is a very elegant solution, because there are no more adapter problems. Otherwise, of course, Nvidia's restriction to a maximum of four simultaneously running output devices will apply to further.

Aorus delivers the card with two external 8-pin ATX power supply connectors, which will also be needed. But more the screenshot of GPU-Z gives us a first impression:

Technical data and comparison maps

At the end of this introduction, the maps of the new generation and those of the old generation in direct tabular comparison:

Test system and measurement methods

We have already described the new test system and the methodology in detail in the basic article "How We Test Graphics Cards, as of February 2017" and therefore refer to this detailed basis for simplicity. Description. So if you want to read everything again, you are welcome to do so. However, we have again improved CPU and cooling to largely exclude possible CPU bottlenecks for this fast card.

If you are interested, the summary in table form quickly provides a brief overview: