Gigabyte Aorus RTX 5080's PCB Might Be the Weirdest One Yet
Gigabyte's Aorus GeForce RTX 5080 Infinity Wood might be one of the strangest graphics card PCBs ever made. With everything crammed at the far end, its power connector is front-mounted, and its rear cutout leaves very little actual card space at the I/O end, relying instead on the cooler for structural integrity.
When Nvidia launched the RTX 50-series, its RTX 5090 Founders Edition was something unique. With its dual-fan passthrough system, it employed a very short PCB with a triangular cutout, offering impressively dense engineering and a smart cooling solution.
Gigabyte has done something similar, but flipped it on its head, effectively placing the dense core and memory layout at the opposite end of the card.
This means that the video outputs are connected only by a thin strip of PCB at the top and bottom, with the middle completely cut out, save for some small bracing elements—though Videocardz reports...
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