ASUS Matrix Tear-Down - Radiator Replaces Shroud (2080 Ti)
**CES 2023: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti**
As we take a closer look at the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, it's clear that this is a massive card. The cold plate, which covers the entire length of the GPU, is large and extends outwards to cover the vram. This is due to its circular shape, which allows for maximum coverage of the memory modules and the VRM (Voltage Regulator Module). The reason for the wide diameter of the cold plate is to provide full coverage of the vram, making it an efficient way to dissipate heat.
The cold plate itself is rotated 90 degrees from the standard orientation, allowing it to extend into the center of the inductor line. This rotation enables the cold plate to cover a wider surface area, which is beneficial for thermal dissipation. The base plate on top of the cold plate will be cooled by air, as it comes through a radiator and blows hot air over the fin stack. This design should provide effective cooling for the MOSFETs in the inductor line.
One notable aspect of the design is the lack of any major components on the cold plate. As this is a pre-production model, some features may change before the final product is released. One example that stands out as something that might not be finalized is how the memory modules will be mounted to the cold plate. This could be done using paste, pad, or putty.
Moving on to the rest of the card, we can see that it has a familiar layout. The right side still features fan hookups, including two 4-pin fan headers and an RGB header. These are likely connected to the Shroud's fans and lighting system. On this side, we find another cable that was previously disconnected, which appears to be for the pump. This is integrated directly into the Shroud.
The tubing used in this design has a Teflon interliner, which helps with permeation. However, it's worth noting that this type of tubing is not ideal for closed-loop systems, as it can be more fragile and prone to cracking when bent. In this case, the manufacturer will route the tube in a way that prevents damage to the Teflon liner.
For those who are interested in seeing the top side of the cold plate with the micro-fins, we'll have to wait until another time. However, for now, let's take a look at the radiator itself. It appears to be a 240mm unit, although there is some extra storage space on either end that may hold a small amount of water.
**Technical Specifications**
* Cold Plate: Wider surface area micro-fin contact than typical
* Radiator: Approximately 240mm length
* Storage Space: Central location for additional water storage
**Pricing and Availability**
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is expected to be priced higher than the standard RTX 3080, given its unique design and increased performance capabilities. Pricing details have not been officially confirmed, but we'll be sure to provide an update once more information becomes available.
As always, our team will be putting this card through rigorous testing at CES 2023. We're excited to see how it performs and what features it brings to the table. If you're interested in staying up-to-date on all things NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, be sure to check out our Patreon page or visit Gamers Nexus.net for more information.
**Conclusion**
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a truly unique card that promises to deliver exceptional performance and cooling capabilities. With its massive cold plate and clever design, it's clear that NVIDIA has put a lot of thought into creating a product that will appeal to enthusiasts and content creators alike. We're excited to see how this card performs in the coming days and weeks, and we'll be sure to bring you all the latest news and updates as they become available.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone we're here at CES 2019 now getting used to that and we are taking apart the Asus 2080 TI Matrix this card is extremely interesting even if you don't think you want a 2080 TI you should still look at it because they've integrated a radiator into the Shroud and uh and we have some b-roll footage of that to show you what it looks like but we're going to take it apart and get a closer look because they do some interesting things here it's a unique design it's technically a liquid cooled card it's just that all of the liquid cooling is compacted into one board and uh it's not hugely oversized compared to the other 2080 ti so we want to see how all that works in today's video before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte RTX 270 gaming OC now available in a matte White model to match the emergence of white PC cases the RTX 2070 gaming OC uses a three fan cooling solution and four composite heat pipes on nvidia's newest touring GPU and ships with AE overclock of 1740 MHz in OC mode or 1725 in gaming mode RGB Fusion is also available for the LED Enthusiast learn more at the link in the description below let's do a quick walk through of the card so uh first of all it has the same fans as the stricks the r strix 2080 TI we already talked about how these change from the previous generation it also has the same PCB as the Rog strix 2080 ti so that's the same too you might remember when we showed the 2080 TI originally and did a tear down on that the strict we talked about some inductors that were angled differently than all the others and how that was for a future project that we weren't privy to at the time but we now know what it was for and it was for this and we have uh well you'll see in a moment but the cold plate on this is pretty uniquely shaped it's just it's wider than all it's got a bigger diameter than all the others that you typically see on cards and so even though this is water cooled in a GPU with everything compacted into one shr uh they have done some pretty unique things to take care of thermals so this is if it's just like the stri which I think it is uh it's for screws to loosen the entire cooling assembly which is actually really nice because there's a sort of a substructure under the Shroud and on top of the base or it is the base plate that is the structural support for everything so only needs four screws now all of these spots here uh this is always an indication of a screw coming through normally through the base plate through the PCB and then securing the back plate to the card so that's what those are for uh we might not get through those today we're at CES and if you hear Echo that's also why there's Echo LED switch there nothing special so here's here's the whole thing it's uh it's a bit wide shot but uh let's walk through it from right to left camera right so we've got here the cold plate this uh we've got a b-roll shot as well we'll throw it in somewhere in this video showing the typical size cold plate the one that Asus has here I am 99% certain is the EVGA hybrid CLC cold plate which is an base attack gen 4.5 cold plate which you can tell because it's got the uh the extended base coming out of the bottom of it that's typical of of evga's uh 4.5 gen C plates this one's a bit wider it's not ace attack we don't 100% sure know uh suppliers yet today of the pump or anything like that it could be a pump like this it could be diatron or AAC uh or someone along those lines but we'll try and find out later when we can take the pump apart uh so that's the cold plate it is large and the reason it's large is because if we pan back over to the PCB you will see that the uh we come back to these inductors I mentioned so when we we saw the stricks originally I said that these were rotated for a future project they didn't tell us about and this is the future project so that wide diameter cold plate extends of course because it's a circle into the center of the inductor line that's why it's rotated the reason it extends is to get full coverage of the vram so the memory modules are covered here and then the vrm it's the strick vrm it it was kind of an Overkill vrm to start with so that's good because it helps with with thermal dissipation across a wide surface area but then they've got this base plate on top of it and this will just be cooled by air so it's air coming through a radiator it's going to be hot air in theory it should still be cooler than not blowing air onto it and we'll test all that later but uh the air coming through the radiator will be hitting these this fin stack and that cools the mosfets inductor line there doesn't need any cooling really and that covers most of those components as for the interface to the the memory you'll notice that there's nothing on that cold play right now this is a a pre-production model so it's not done some stuff on here might change it's pretty much done but uh one example of something that we don't know the finals on yet would be how the memory is going to sink into the cold plate so that's either paste or pad or something along those lines maybe throw all putty uh but one of those three things and then let's see what else we can look at here uh on the the rest of it all pretty familiar so I mean the right side we still have the fan hookups which I'll try and get a shot of that so two four pin fan headers in there there's it looks like an RGB header in there 12vt and then grb would be the pin out on that uh with then a cable for probably the pump or the fans on the Shroud and then there's another cable uh that we've already disconnected uh on this side of the cooler on the right side that actually this is the one for the pump right there there's your power and ground and um again this is a non final design so that's your hookup for the pump the pump is right here so that is integrated in the Shroud uh and it looks like the tubing is the name of the exact tubing escapes right now but it looks like the kind that has the Teflon inter liner on it which helps with permeation um this stuff you don't really want to use it in like an a closed loop that you have on a CPU where the user is bending it because uh it is a bit more fragile to being bent but if it's pre-installed by the manufact faurer it's a bit better use and that's what's happening here because they're going to Route it obviously in a way that it won't crack the Teflon and so you end up with a Teflon liner that should help with permeation that uh I I don't have exact detail on that but just based on experience I'm pretty sure that's what that is uh for the tube type so that's going into the the looks like cold plate and the housing directly so there's um we have the top side of this cold plate with all the micr fins in a separate shot we're not going to pull it out of here and drain all the fluid out of B Us's demo card so we'll show a separate shot of that with the micr fins but it is a wider surface area micr fin contact than typical which is good that's what you want to see for a wider surface area last thing here for the radiator so it it comes all the way across it looks like it's about a 240 mm radiator but the tank so typically you have the the fat tank on the end of the radiator where there's just some tiny bit of extra water storage uh that's going to be located centrally on this card closer to the cold plate but it does look like about a 240 so that covers the Matrix 2080ti pricing TBD but you I mean you've seen what the card looks like so it it will be higher than the other 2080 TI it's a pretty unique design very interesting and we're looking forward to testing it uh but that's it for this one so thank you for watching subscribe for our other CES coverage you can go to patreon.com Gamers Nexus to that directly or store. Gamers nexus.net I'll see you all next timehey everyone we're here at CES 2019 now getting used to that and we are taking apart the Asus 2080 TI Matrix this card is extremely interesting even if you don't think you want a 2080 TI you should still look at it because they've integrated a radiator into the Shroud and uh and we have some b-roll footage of that to show you what it looks like but we're going to take it apart and get a closer look because they do some interesting things here it's a unique design it's technically a liquid cooled card it's just that all of the liquid cooling is compacted into one board and uh it's not hugely oversized compared to the other 2080 ti so we want to see how all that works in today's video before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte RTX 270 gaming OC now available in a matte White model to match the emergence of white PC cases the RTX 2070 gaming OC uses a three fan cooling solution and four composite heat pipes on nvidia's newest touring GPU and ships with AE overclock of 1740 MHz in OC mode or 1725 in gaming mode RGB Fusion is also available for the LED Enthusiast learn more at the link in the description below let's do a quick walk through of the card so uh first of all it has the same fans as the stricks the r strix 2080 TI we already talked about how these change from the previous generation it also has the same PCB as the Rog strix 2080 ti so that's the same too you might remember when we showed the 2080 TI originally and did a tear down on that the strict we talked about some inductors that were angled differently than all the others and how that was for a future project that we weren't privy to at the time but we now know what it was for and it was for this and we have uh well you'll see in a moment but the cold plate on this is pretty uniquely shaped it's just it's wider than all it's got a bigger diameter than all the others that you typically see on cards and so even though this is water cooled in a GPU with everything compacted into one shr uh they have done some pretty unique things to take care of thermals so this is if it's just like the stri which I think it is uh it's for screws to loosen the entire cooling assembly which is actually really nice because there's a sort of a substructure under the Shroud and on top of the base or it is the base plate that is the structural support for everything so only needs four screws now all of these spots here uh this is always an indication of a screw coming through normally through the base plate through the PCB and then securing the back plate to the card so that's what those are for uh we might not get through those today we're at CES and if you hear Echo that's also why there's Echo LED switch there nothing special so here's here's the whole thing it's uh it's a bit wide shot but uh let's walk through it from right to left camera right so we've got here the cold plate this uh we've got a b-roll shot as well we'll throw it in somewhere in this video showing the typical size cold plate the one that Asus has here I am 99% certain is the EVGA hybrid CLC cold plate which is an base attack gen 4.5 cold plate which you can tell because it's got the uh the extended base coming out of the bottom of it that's typical of of evga's uh 4.5 gen C plates this one's a bit wider it's not ace attack we don't 100% sure know uh suppliers yet today of the pump or anything like that it could be a pump like this it could be diatron or AAC uh or someone along those lines but we'll try and find out later when we can take the pump apart uh so that's the cold plate it is large and the reason it's large is because if we pan back over to the PCB you will see that the uh we come back to these inductors I mentioned so when we we saw the stricks originally I said that these were rotated for a future project they didn't tell us about and this is the future project so that wide diameter cold plate extends of course because it's a circle into the center of the inductor line that's why it's rotated the reason it extends is to get full coverage of the vram so the memory modules are covered here and then the vrm it's the strick vrm it it was kind of an Overkill vrm to start with so that's good because it helps with with thermal dissipation across a wide surface area but then they've got this base plate on top of it and this will just be cooled by air so it's air coming through a radiator it's going to be hot air in theory it should still be cooler than not blowing air onto it and we'll test all that later but uh the air coming through the radiator will be hitting these this fin stack and that cools the mosfets inductor line there doesn't need any cooling really and that covers most of those components as for the interface to the the memory you'll notice that there's nothing on that cold play right now this is a a pre-production model so it's not done some stuff on here might change it's pretty much done but uh one example of something that we don't know the finals on yet would be how the memory is going to sink into the cold plate so that's either paste or pad or something along those lines maybe throw all putty uh but one of those three things and then let's see what else we can look at here uh on the the rest of it all pretty familiar so I mean the right side we still have the fan hookups which I'll try and get a shot of that so two four pin fan headers in there there's it looks like an RGB header in there 12vt and then grb would be the pin out on that uh with then a cable for probably the pump or the fans on the Shroud and then there's another cable uh that we've already disconnected uh on this side of the cooler on the right side that actually this is the one for the pump right there there's your power and ground and um again this is a non final design so that's your hookup for the pump the pump is right here so that is integrated in the Shroud uh and it looks like the tubing is the name of the exact tubing escapes right now but it looks like the kind that has the Teflon inter liner on it which helps with permeation um this stuff you don't really want to use it in like an a closed loop that you have on a CPU where the user is bending it because uh it is a bit more fragile to being bent but if it's pre-installed by the manufact faurer it's a bit better use and that's what's happening here because they're going to Route it obviously in a way that it won't crack the Teflon and so you end up with a Teflon liner that should help with permeation that uh I I don't have exact detail on that but just based on experience I'm pretty sure that's what that is uh for the tube type so that's going into the the looks like cold plate and the housing directly so there's um we have the top side of this cold plate with all the micr fins in a separate shot we're not going to pull it out of here and drain all the fluid out of B Us's demo card so we'll show a separate shot of that with the micr fins but it is a wider surface area micr fin contact than typical which is good that's what you want to see for a wider surface area last thing here for the radiator so it it comes all the way across it looks like it's about a 240 mm radiator but the tank so typically you have the the fat tank on the end of the radiator where there's just some tiny bit of extra water storage uh that's going to be located centrally on this card closer to the cold plate but it does look like about a 240 so that covers the Matrix 2080ti pricing TBD but you I mean you've seen what the card looks like so it it will be higher than the other 2080 TI it's a pretty unique design very interesting and we're looking forward to testing it uh but that's it for this one so thank you for watching subscribe for our other CES coverage you can go to patreon.com Gamers Nexus to that directly or store. Gamers nexus.net I'll see you all next time\n"