Gigabyte has simply unveiled a brand new ‘Status’ sequence that “merges top-tier efficiency with unparalleled design” to create what’s going to little doubt find yourself being a few of the costliest parts of their class. Together with a hanging white and gold look – that features actual gold-plated elements – the brand new graphics card of the vary can even embrace the very best GPU clock pace of any Nvidia RTX 4080 Tremendous.
Whereas the brand new Z790 Aorus Xtreme X Ice motherboard and Aorus GeForce RTX 4080 Tremendous Xtreme Ice 16G GPU aren’t all that prone to earn a spot on our greatest motherboard and greatest graphics card guides, as a consequence of their anticipated excessive worth, we will definitely take a second to admire these new Gigabyte designs.
We first noticed a glimpse of those two new merchandise once they had been leaked by a Gigabyte worker on Fb. The gold Gigabyte motherboard notably caught our eye from that reveal, however now that we now have official specs for the parts, it’s the graphics card that’s taken our curiosity.
Along with its distinctive design, which we’ll take a look at in additional element in a second, this graphics card additionally has the very best clock pace of any RTX 4080 Tremendous. Particularly, it hits 2,700MHz whereas the very best most competing playing cards rise to is 2,670MHz. After all, a 1% enhance isn’t actually going to revolutionize your gameplay nevertheless it’s good to have. Plus, in comparison with the default clock pace of these playing cards, which is 2,550MHz, it makes for a bigger 6% enhance.
Elsewhere, the cardboard encompasses a colossal cooler that rises to a mind-boggling peak of 167mm – that’s 47mm larger than an ordinary mounting PCIe bracket. The Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Tremendous, as an example, rises to only 145mm, and that’s already an enormous card. The brand new Gigabyte card can be 20mm longer and some millimeters wider, although each playing cards are triple-slot-filling designs.
Making full use of all this area, the cardboard has a triple-fan cooler – with RGB after all – with every fan measuring 110mm. The cooler additionally incorporates a vapor chamber and 12 heatpipes. The followers additionally embrace shark dermal denticle-mimicking bumps to assist airflow.
Essentially the most distinguished design particulars, apart from the largely white end are the crystalized titanium on its prime edge, which is a sample created by forging titanium to create a glistening multifaceted look. Alongside this can be a small LCD panel that may present GPU temp and numerous different statuses or your alternative of picture.
The cardboard additionally will get an actual (99% pure) gold serial quantity on its nook. The opposite hanging element is an iridescent eagle motif that Gigabyte describes as “combining coloration and element, every angle displays a distinct coloration story.”
Apart from all that, it’s simply an ordinary RTX 4080 Tremendous, which we’ve already established is our favourite GPU for underneath $1,000, though we suspect this variant will value fairly a bit greater than standard. You’ll be able to learn up on the total specs of the brand new card right here.
As for the motherboard, this options the identical core design components because the GPU, with a big LCD panel overlaying the VRM and I/O part, a gold serial quantity subsequent to the ability connector, and an enormous cowl for the underside part of the motherboard that includes the iridescent and titanium design components. Oh, and in addition the Intel LGA1700 CPU socket is gold plated!
A barely complicated addition is a frosted panel that covers the CPU socket and RAM. It’s not fully clear how this integrates with a CPU cooler nevertheless it does look neat. There’s additionally a ridiculously big warmth pipe radiator for one of many M.2 SSD slots.
As outlandish as these designs are, I really fairly like them, no less than based mostly on how they give the impression of being within the rendered photographs present right here. It’s only a disgrace they’re solely accessible in a restricted run and little doubt for a really excessive worth – Gigabyte hasn’t revealed what number of can be made, the place they’ll be accessible, or how a lot they’ll value but.
For a reminder of simply how glorious a standard RTX 4080 Tremendous is, try our RTX 4080 Tremendous assessment, the place we put the Founders Version and Asus TUF playing cards to the check.
