KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OC in test – a whopping 380 Watt Power Limit with RGB planking

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

Summary

KFA2 / Galax offers the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti OC, a 1.1 kilogram dual-slot disc, which is air-cooled and beautifully colorful, but because of the high power target of 300 watts ex works and the much higher, possible power limit of as much as 380 watts, it almost cries for a good water cooler.

If you don't want to do this now, you get at least in the dry a visually well-lit and illuminated map in all only feasible RGB shades that one could wish for. When you're standing on something like that. The rest just shuts down the Christmas tree, and it goes.

So the optics are quite suitable for the targeted target group, the performance itself. Wouldn't it be the always and constantly snoozing at the limit, which should quickly reach the limit, especially in smaller housings. The board currently corresponds to 1:1 of the board of the Founders Edition, but has the much more generous BIOS. This in turn can be both a curse (air cooler) and a blessing (water cooler).

I quickly summarize what I wrote in detail on the last pages, because the reader always needs a little reminder. And for the typical first-last-page readers, I would even have the hidden hint that it is well worth reading the rest in between. It's more interesting than you might think 😉

Conclusion: With air borderline, with water absolutely tip

As long as the card is available, if it will be in stock, it is the power breaker par excellence because of the maximum possible power target of 380 watts, because officially a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is not working here at the moment. On the other hand, there is a somewhat weakening cooler, which still acts very borderline with the first BIOS and makes the card quite hot and loud. Frustration with air and a joyful hello to water games of all kinds. So you don't have to go to EVGA & Co. put significantly more money to get the maximum!

Therefore, this time (for the time being) my purchase recommendation does not go to the card as a complete package, but to the neat Nvidia board with the extra power supply, which mercilessly beats up every converted Founders Edition. So there's something else going on here, and 350 watts would be enough for me (motherboard slot). The all-pain-free then, of course, jubilantly turn the tap on the attack and laugh out the rest of the Rich Kids with their underserved GeForce RTX 2080 Ti nonchalantly. This card is practically the V8 with Weber carburetor. Power comes from fuel and whoever has the smaller tank loses.

Important comments on the test

The card tested today has a BIOS, the power target of which is 320 watts ex works and can be raised to the maximum power limit of 380 watts with suitable software. For air coolers like these, this interpretation is simply unsuitable, but highly interesting for all water cooling enthusiasts. Even if it's an original Nvidia PCB, this board can be flashed freely, which is definitely not possible with the Founders Edition of Nvidia right now!

KFA2 will soon deliver this card with another BIOS, whose values of 260 watts (out of the box) and a maximum of 300 watts are roughly what the Founders Edition offers. This air cooler tested here is again fully in the race, so that I can in any case offer a detailed post-test. I have already been able to test the new BIOS for a short time and it does exactly what the reduction was intended to do. So please stay tuned.