Galax unveils flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Super and RTX 2070 Super HOF OC Lab – for those tired of waiting for Ampere

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Galax unveils flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Super and RTX 2070 Super HOF OC Lab – for those tired of waiting for Ampere

The manufacturer released the original GeForce RTX 2080 HOF model two years ago. Last year, Galax updated the series with two Super-variants GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 HOF 10th Anniversary in black and white. Today the company unveiled the third version of the GeForce RTX 2080 and RTX 2070 Super graphics cards called HOF  10th Anniversary  OC Lab Edition, which is seeing some cosmetic changes.

GALAX GeForce RTX 2080
GALAX GeForce RTX 2080

It is very noteworthy that new items based on the Turing architecture were presented after the release of the new GeForce RTX 30 series video cards on the new Ampere architecture. In addition, it was previously reported that NVIDIA has already ceased to produce graphics chips of the older Turing models.

The new GPUs are slightly faster than the previous HOF variants. They were created by the Chinese Galax OC Lab team, responsible for developing the company’s highest performing solutions. Under the OC Lab brand, the company, for example, also manufactures solid-state drives and memory modules. As for video cards, OC Lab variants rightfully have the status of flagship solutions.

For the Galax GeForce RTX 2080 Super HOF 10th Anniversary OC Lab Edition model, the manufacturer offers a factory overclocked GPU up to 1860 MHz. Previous models, available in black and white, run at a Boost frequency of 1845 MHz. According to VideoCardz, the OC Lab Edition is the second-fastest GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER on the market after the ASUS Strix GeForce RTX 2080 Super OC, whose GPU runs at 1890 MHz in Boost mode.

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There is one visual difference between the original HOF 10th Anniversary and OC Lab Edition models. The latter has gold rings around the side fans of the cooling system. Regular versions have black ones. Along with the GeForce RTX 2080 Super HOF 10th Anniversary OC Lab Edition, Galax introduced the same version of the GeForce RTX 2070 with the exact same cooling system design.

At the moment it is not known when these graphics accelerators will be on sale and how much they will cost. Now both new items can be found only on the Chinese version of the Galax website, so it is quite possible that both models will remain exclusive for the Chinese market.