Gigabyte water-cooled eGPU

Gigabyte was showing the world’s first water-cooled eGPU at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The powerful AORUS RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Box was designed to accelerate workflows by offering incredible boosts in performance. It has been designed for video editing, 3D animation, photography, graphic design, gaming, architectural visualization, and broadcasting.

This is an eGPU for windows-based PCs. It isn’t for use on a Mac. The eGPU was first announced back in November 2019.

KEY FEATURES

powerful GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti delivers incredible performance for games, creators and A.I.

WATERFORCE all-in-one cooling system

Thunderbolt™ 3 plug and play

Supports 3x USB 3.0 for peripheral

Supports 1x Ethernet port

Supports Power Delivery (PD 3.0) to charge the laptop PC

RGB fusion 2.0 – 16.7M color synchronize with other AORUS devices.

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti graphics card with 11G memory and 616 GB/s memory bandwidth has 4352 CUDA® Cores and hundreds of Tensor cores operating in parallel. It brings the power of GPU-accelerated artificial intelligence and machine learning to your laptop PC.

So how does all this cooling actually work?

AORUS provides the all-around cooling solution for all key components of the graphics card. It takes care of not only GPU but also VRAM and MOSFET, to ensure a stable overclock operation and longer life.

AORUS WATERFORCE all-in-one cooling system that integrates a large copper plate, a 240mm aluminum radiator and two 120mm fans. And with an optimized pump and water block, it provides the most efficient water flow and cooling performance at a lower noise level.

The cooling system is made up of 5 key components:

ALUMINUM RADIATOR

120MM 2x FANS

LARGE COPPER BASE PLATE

COMPOSITE HEAT PIPES

FEP TUBES

Connectivity

The AORUS RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Box connects to a laptop PC through Thunderbolt™ 3. It provides speeds up to 40 Gbps and delivers 100W to charge your laptop.

There are 10 ports on the box:

1x Thunderbolt 3

2x USB3

1x Ethernet Port

1x HDMI Output

3x Display Ports

1x USB-C

Full Specifications

Graphics Processing GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti

Graphics card

GIGABYTE WATERFORCE GeForce RTXTM 2080 Ti 11G

GPU clock:1545MHz

Memory clock : 14000 MHz

Memory Bandwidth : 616 GB/s

Memory type : GDDR6

Memory size : 11GB

Digital max resolution : 7680×4320

Multi-veiw : 4

Box Size 300 x 140 x 173 (mm)

Box Weight 3788 (g) ± 5%

I/O Thunderbolt™ 3 type-C x1

Ethernet port x1

USB 3.0 x3

Video output ( HDMI x1, DPx3, USB- C(VirtualLink™)x1 )

PSU 450W, PCI-E 8pin+8pin power

AC INPUT 100-240V ~ / 6A / 50-60Hz

Package content

AORUS RTX™ 2080 Ti Gaming Box * 1

includes GIGABYTE GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti 11G graphics card

Thunderbolt™ 3 Cable 500mm (USB Type-C) * 1

Power cord * 1

Installation Guide * 1

Driver CD * 1

Carry bag * 1

System Requirement Laptop PC/Desktop PC with Thunderbolt™ 3 port and support external GPU.

Please confirm the Thunderbolt™ 3 compatibility with your PC manufacturer.

Windows 10