Tuesday, January 22nd 2019
MSI Announces GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
MSI is proud to officially announce the latest of its legendary LIGHTNING series graphics cards. Built to be perfect, the new GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z combines cutting edge new technology with proven features such as Tri-Frozr design with all new TORX 3.0 Fans, Phantom of LIGHTNING LED effect, Dynamic Dashboard OLED panel and full carbon backplate. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is nothing short of an engineering masterpiece.
With an innovative design, the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING presents an all-new level of visual customization. Via MSI's Dragon Center software, the LED colors and blades on the fans can be controlled to cycle predefined profiles. The fans not only dazzle you with vibrant colors and effects but also cool this beastly card in silence.
RE-EVOLUTION THERMAL DESIGN
MSI's reputation in thermal design is well-known to be excellent. The improved Tri-Frozr design on the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z utilizes two 10cm and one 9cm TORX 3.0 Fans, combining the advantages of both traditional and dispersion fan blades to generate huge amounts of airflow. The new trims on the traditional fan blades create concentrated airflow for higher air pressure while also reducing noise. Two 8mm Superpipes and six 6mm heatpipes transfer heat much faster to the fins. Both the new Rugged-edge fins design and improved Airflow Control technology make for higher efficiency to lead airflow and dissipate the heat rapidly.
PERSONALIZE YOUR STYLE WITH DYNAMIC DASHBOARD
MSI knows that keeping an eye on your graphics card performance is important, especially for gamers. Dynamic Dashboard is MSI's new premium feature which enables gamers to monitor real-time frequency of GPU and memory, temperature and fan duty. Besides monitoring hardware, the display can also be personalized by uploading custom images and animations to show your own unique style.
DUAL BIOS AND ENHANCED POWER DESIGN
The special LN2 BIOS on the card provides extreme overclockers more capability for overclocking records without special hardware modifications. By removing restrictions, the full potential of the graphics card is unlocked. The enhanced power design contains more power phases than other models to ensure plenty of power is available for record-breaking performance. LIGHTNING's custom 12-layer PCB is fitted with 16 phases for GPU and 3 phases for Memory to ensure power delivery can handle the most extreme loads.
ON-BOARD AND IN CONTROL
With MSI's exclusive OC kits you're in complete control of the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z. V-Check points allow you to accurately measure GPU, Memory and PLL voltages. Multiple Temp Monitor checks the real-time temperatures of the GPU, Memory and PLL while Quadruple Overvoltage allows you to overvolt those same components in order to achieve higher clockspeeds.
AVAILABILITY
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is expected to be available from the end of January
With an innovative design, the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING presents an all-new level of visual customization. Via MSI's Dragon Center software, the LED colors and blades on the fans can be controlled to cycle predefined profiles. The fans not only dazzle you with vibrant colors and effects but also cool this beastly card in silence.
MSI's reputation in thermal design is well-known to be excellent. The improved Tri-Frozr design on the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z utilizes two 10cm and one 9cm TORX 3.0 Fans, combining the advantages of both traditional and dispersion fan blades to generate huge amounts of airflow. The new trims on the traditional fan blades create concentrated airflow for higher air pressure while also reducing noise. Two 8mm Superpipes and six 6mm heatpipes transfer heat much faster to the fins. Both the new Rugged-edge fins design and improved Airflow Control technology make for higher efficiency to lead airflow and dissipate the heat rapidly.
PERSONALIZE YOUR STYLE WITH DYNAMIC DASHBOARD
MSI knows that keeping an eye on your graphics card performance is important, especially for gamers. Dynamic Dashboard is MSI's new premium feature which enables gamers to monitor real-time frequency of GPU and memory, temperature and fan duty. Besides monitoring hardware, the display can also be personalized by uploading custom images and animations to show your own unique style.
DUAL BIOS AND ENHANCED POWER DESIGN
The special LN2 BIOS on the card provides extreme overclockers more capability for overclocking records without special hardware modifications. By removing restrictions, the full potential of the graphics card is unlocked. The enhanced power design contains more power phases than other models to ensure plenty of power is available for record-breaking performance. LIGHTNING's custom 12-layer PCB is fitted with 16 phases for GPU and 3 phases for Memory to ensure power delivery can handle the most extreme loads.
With MSI's exclusive OC kits you're in complete control of the RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z. V-Check points allow you to accurately measure GPU, Memory and PLL voltages. Multiple Temp Monitor checks the real-time temperatures of the GPU, Memory and PLL while Quadruple Overvoltage allows you to overvolt those same components in order to achieve higher clockspeeds.
The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z is expected to be available from the end of January
21 Comments on MSI Announces GeForce RTX 2080 Ti LIGHTNING Z
So you are thinking of getting a 2080Ti? Why not a Radeon 7. I am curious to see how 7nm overclocking might pan out.
This card looks ugly compared to the Previous Lightning Cards.
Bundled with a tiny quantum singularity to power it :roll:
Makes me wonder, how special they are in case of nVidai.
Anyway third pin was added for extreme oc. I wonder if Lightning would work just with 2 power cables?
The extra pins are there, but not because the board needs them to function properly. They are there for extreme overclocking only, which is the concept of these cards, just like the EVGA Kingpin models!
I had a R9 290X Lightning in the past with 8 + 8 + 6 pins and the card worked perfectly with 8 + 8, the extra 6 pin was just for a more extreme OC! So it has nothing to do with what happens in the RX Vega cards, the comparison does not make sense!
Could just be the image but can you confirm that? I can't for the life of me imagine why that would be a conscience design effort.
That part never changes since Dale Carnegie first wrote about them.
I'm thinking about, but we will see how it pans out. I still really don't have a need to update my 1080ti's.