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

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...

Power consumption and loads

At 11.7 watts in the idle, the power consumption of this board partner card is similar to that of the Founders edition. With gaming and the torture loop, however, you can already notice that Aorus has raised the Power Target a bit. I measure just under 265 watts in gaming and one tick more in the Torture Loop. If I overclock the card to its limit, then it is already a good 290 watts, so no more, despite 112% Power Target. But according to BIOS, the limit is already 300 watts.

The voltages are in the expected range, with the oc's permissible board power being the limiting factor, not the voltage. One notices very clearly that Nvidia deliberately limits here before a possible maximum is reached.

The load distribution on the rails is good, because the maximum 5.5 amperes of the motherboard slot are never exceeded. Even with the external power supply connections, one remains very much below 300 watts.

 

Detailed recording of power consumption and flowing currents

As usual, I now also set aside the power consumption and the flowing currents as detailed graphics of my oscillograph measurements. A service that hardly anyone else offers and which shows how the maps "tick" in detail:

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

Computer nerd since 1983, audio freak since 1979 and pretty much open to anything with a plug or battery for over 50 years.

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