KFA2 GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame in Review – Hot, White Cracker with Fun Factor | igorsLAB

The Hall of Fame (HoF for short) has been the spearhead of the individual performance classes at KFA2 (Galax) for years. It is easy to argue about design and not being, but white cards are rare and are highly sought after because it is hard to get anywhere else. The manufacturer also offers with this card a lot of features, which can only be found on a few other maps. A GeForce RTX 2080 Ti can be anyone, but a white card with enough bling factor, gold edge, crown, OLED display and 450-watt BIOS is something of over that it already has enormous charm.

Apart from the overall rather baroque superstructure and the extremely expansive plastic oversize, the manufacturer naturally puts a lot of the latest technology on the white board. That is to say, at KFA2 it also counts the inner values, whereby the card is in fact the blonde with Abitur among the thickest specimens of the RTXe. You have to be conspicuous and smart first and because of all the gilding, at least one would hyperventilate in presidential rapture if he ever saw it. And with three fans and the continuous wind button, it is also the Hairforce One among the Pixel jumbos.

The 1438 gram card is 31.7 cm long, measures from top edge slot panel to top edge graphics card case is plentiful 14 cm and is 5.2 cm thick. In addition, there is just under 0.5 cm for the aluminium backplate. This means that the card can encounter certain space problems if the housings are too small simply because of the height. The cover is made of white plastic with optical accents, such as a gold edge painting and an aluminium plate below the OLED display.

At the top, the willing buyer will find exactly this OLED display, which can be controlled via the in-house AI software and is also able to display various status values in real time. The card also features a dual BIOS (dip switch at the end of the card) and a button to balance fan speeds to 100% via one-click. This is quite noisy and is at the level of Radeon VII. In addition to the NVLink at the top, the slot panel also contains the usual three DisplayPort ports, once HDMI 2.0 and the USB-C port.

The remaining details can be found in the following picture gallery and of course also in the description of board details and coolers including a long tear-down video on the next page. I don't want to pre-empt this, but I also want to get the first-page-last-page readers to turn over.

KFA2 delivers the card with three external 8-pin ATX power supply connectors, which are located at the back of the card and not at the top because of the height of the card. The complete connection is mandatory and we will also see why. All previous Turing cards with the TU102 did not reach 380 Watt++ power consumption for the entire card even with OC and raising the predetermined power target, which could also be changed this time with a little effort. But more on that later. 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: