Even the Pope in Rome needs electricity
Everything beautiful is associated with costs, even the whole overclocking. Anyone who thinks they can still cope with all this with air is wrong, because even the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming X Trio with its monstrous 1.6-kilo cooler is already without chance with the maximum possible 350 watts. Here you really need real, uncompromising water toys and also no flattened AiO compact water cooling!
Consequently, I also measure almost 380 watts for the entire graphics card, if you send the good Witcher in maximum pixel density into the race for the hot price. The Oszillograf already shows us without evaluation that we are now at the absolute limit and at 380 watts, as cut with the knife, is also brutally cut off as much as possible (whereby I will find in the logs later still nasty spikes in the lower ms range). In any case, such a card looks at the absolute limit. If you want it even more performant (and unreasonable), you have to move into the dry ice cellar or throw in a decent bottle of LN2.
Comparison of power consumption
The Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti FE is approved with approx. 328 watts approx. 8 watts more than the Power Limit specifies. You can see how the whole thing then translates into the curves for the power consumption and flowing currents here:
But what happens when you give your monkey really sugar electricity? Nearly 379 watts are what Nvidia sees as the absolute end of the dog leash. With every little twitching, it is then immediately brutally withdrawn until the neck becomes a twine.
So far, so thirsty. But is all this still within the norms? That is what I have been wondering all the time.
Scrap on the slot? Just above that is also missing!
What was worth a certain criticism with AMD and the Radeon RX 480, one has to just note here as well, whereby the power consumption of 380 watts with the two 8-pin supply connections would not have been 100% compliant anyway. But where the external ATX plug still has the fattest reserves, the motherboard is long-term, then it's funny. And I also realized why MSI is closing at 350 watts. Balancing between the individual rails is no longer so easy to regulate.
Fully overclocked, it is on average at 380 watts power consumption already 6 amperes on the motherboard slot instead of the permitted 5.5 ampere. And only as an average! The peaks go far beyond 8 amperes. This won't scrap a normal motherboard, but it's also about other things that are almost washed away by such wild currents. And if it's the onboard sound that acoustically circulates all the misery in your ear.
If you reduce the Power Target in such a way that a maximum of "only" 350 watts is required, the current flow on the motherboard falls back to the permitted 5.5 amperes. So that would be the compromise I would have to offer the whole arch-conservatives in pea-counter mode. The rest will not matter anyway like a lukewarm buckwurst, because it has to tingle a little bit in the belly.
However, the risk is likely to be limited, because those who buy such a card generally do not use a cheap, wabbling 4-layer motherboard from Grabbeltisch, but the finest multilayer twirl by a mid-three-digit range. He can take it off.
Recommendation: Reference board yes, but none with FE-BIOS!
Maps like the current KFA2/Galax RTX 2080 Ti OC actually have everything the water sports friend needs for everyday life. A reasonable board with clever components, a BIOS with which it can start much more than that of the Founders Edition and also a price that is likely to be lower than that of the Nvidia card. If it works with the availability, you can really do amicably here and also choose from the meanwhile large assortment of water coolers.
Of course, I will test here soon, because if so, because already. The first samples should be available here shortly. Until then: water march and full pipe!
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