MSI Stealthily Revamps GeForce RTX 3080 Design Amid Stability Concerns (Updated) | Tom's Hardware

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: MSI sent pictures and statements to dispute any claims that it has changed its 30-series GPU design. This includes four images on the back of the card, showing the configuration of the capacitor. The layout of MSI RTX 3090 Gaming Trio and MSI RTX 3090 Ventus 3X has 4 SP capacitors and 2x MLCC cluster, while the layout of MSI RTX 3080 Gaming Trio and MSI RTX 3080 Ventus 3X has 5x SP capacitors and 1x MLCC cluster. These are the cards that are actually sent to consumers and reviewers; there may be earlier variants, but they are clearly not delivered to anyone outside of MSI. These include the 6x SP-Cap card, the image of which was once posted on MSI's website but has since been deleted.

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Despite its limited availability, it is still on the market, but some customized models have stability issues.

Reports of custom GeForce RTX 3080 crashes began to pile up last week.

The root cause of the collapse may be due to the design and selection of capacitors. some

On this issue, the others remained silent. 

In short, there are two types of capacitors that can filter voltage. POSCAPS (conductive polymer tantalum solid capacitors) are larger and have a higher temperature tolerance, which means they are more expensive, but they are not competent at high frequencies. On the other hand, compared with POSCAPS, MLCC (Multilayer Ceramic Chip Capacitor) is smaller, cheaper and can adapt to higher frequencies. However, their temperature resistance is lower, so the frequency of cracking is higher. So far, user reports have shown that custom GeForce RTX 3080 models designed with full POSCAPS are more susceptible to instability and crashes.

MSI, reportedly

, Has begun to quietly modify the design of its GeForce RTX 3080 model. In fact, although some regional product pages are already showing new designs, MSI has removed the rendering of the backplane from the product pages.

The original capacitor layout on the GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio uses five POSCAPS and an MLCC array. The new design includes four POSCAPS and two MLCC arrays.

On the GeForce RTX 3080 Ventus 3X, MSI initially used a six POSCAPS design, which has been replaced by a new layout that includes five POSCAPS and two MLCC arrays.

It is unknown whether any old designs provided by MSI or other vendors are really popular. 

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