Gainward has new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 models with very unusual colors.
A rainbow effect
The company teased some of the proposed designs on social media shortly after NVIDIA announced the cards. So far only two of these designs have been launched:
Gainward GeForce RTX 30 Series Prototypes (color options)
Last week Gainward officially introduced the first model, featuring the gold and red color scheme. It’s a three-slot and three-fan design featuring NVIDIA reference PCB with dual 8-pin power connectors. There is also a second variant featuring blue instead of gold.
The designs are clearly referring to Marvel’s Iron Man and Captain America suits. Chinese manufacturers are known for a rather loose approach to trademarks. Still, the best example is a Chinese MaxSun, who still offers Terminator or Big Mac series (examples here).
Both cards are not factory-overclocked, so there is should be no problem with stability at higher clock speeds.
| GAINWARD RTX 3080 10GB Red Star | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Specs provided by VideoCardz.NET Database | |||
| GPU : | GA102-200 | Base Clock : | 1440 MHz |
| Cores : | 8704 | Boost Clock : | 1710 MHz |
| TMUs : | 272 | Memory Clock : | 19 Gbps |
| ROPs : | 96 | Memory : | 10 GB GDDR6X 320b |
| GAINWARD RTX 3080 10GB Blue Star | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Specs provided by VideoCardz.NET Database | |||
| GPU : | GA102-200 | Base Clock : | 1440 MHz |
| Cores : | 8704 | Boost Clock : | 1710 MHz |
| TMUs : | 272 | Memory Clock : | 19 Gbps |
| ROPs : | 96 | Memory : | 10 GB GDDR6X 320b |
Interestingly, the manufacturer publicly announced both models as RTX 3080 10GB (in marketing materials and on the official website). this is due to the fact that NVIDIA will launch a 20GB RTX 3080 model later. We already had leaks from two brands, but this is probably the first official (and indirect) confirmation that there are other SKUs planned.
