Gigabyte has quietly launched a 2021 update to its Aorus Gaming Box and one in every of the first examples listed comes packing a water cooled Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. The comparatively honest not too long within the past released RTX 3080 Ti is perchance a accurate different for such a product, as novel reviews narrate here’s a GPU with first price offer – albeit at unattractive prices for the cost-minded.
Most of you might perchance presumably additionally possess grasped from the identify/shots that the Aorus Gaming Box is an external GPU product, and Gigabyte is covering your total bases by describing its utility cost in gaming, mumble material introduction, and even GPU-accelerated man made intelligence and machine discovering out.
Initiating on the out of doors, the 2021 Aorus Gaming Box measures 300 x 140 x 173mm, and weighs in at honest appropriate below 4kg populated with the water cooled GPU. Connections to the box will also be made by strategy of Thunderbolt 3 form-C x1 with energy offer make stronger (to price your connected notebook computer), Ethernet port x1, USB 3.0 x3, and video output is lined by the HDMI x2 and DP x3 ports, and you are going to be in a characteristic to join up to four shows concurrently. The box might be very minimal in put, however has a dawdle of aRGB LED lights for those inclined to take support of it.
Internal, the first enchantment is the water-cooled RTX 3080 Ti, which Gigabyte says is a ‘Gigabyte WaterForce GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12G’, no topic this being an Aorus branded product. Its key efficiency specs are a GPU clock of 1,665MHz, and a memory clock of 19,000MHz, offering an efficient 912GB/s with its 12GB of GDDR6X RAM.
The graphics card uses an AiO liquid cooler with twin fan outfitted 240mm aluminium finned radiator, a colossal copper baseplate that extends across GPU/VRAM/MOSFET, composite heatpipes, plus high-stress tolerant FEP tubes.
One other fundamental part all over the box is a 550W PSU with 90 per cent efficiency (equal to 80 plus Gold), from where sprout the requisite PCI 8pin + 8pin energy connectors.
Merchants rep a Thunderbolt 3 cable 500mm (USB Form-C) and energy wire for the unit within the box, as effectively as a raise abet and snappy manual. We don’t possess pricing or availability on the time of writing. These containers aged to cost from £200 to £400 more than the graphics cards they contained, so please adjust your pricing expectations accordingly. Additionally, please take into accout that the cumbersome attainable of a GPU love the RTX 3080 Ti will be held abet by the Thunderbolt 3 interface.