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The Palit RTX 2080 SUPER WGRP ships in a white box, with a large ‘GameRock' logo printed in colourful letters on the front.
Inside, the included accessories are fairly basic, with a driver disk, quick start guide and a 2x 6-pin to 1x 8-pin PCIe power adapter cable.
As for the card itself, it's pretty obvious we have the white ‘Limited Edition' version and personally I think it looks great – it's very clean and sleek, and it would match my own system very nicely. If you'd prefer a black card, however, the regular GRP (GameRock Premium) is still being made, there is just now an extra white version as a limited edition.
The two fans are also worth touching on, these are Palit's TurboFan Blade 2.0 design and each fan measures 100mm. There is a fan-stop mode, but only on the card's secondary BIOS, so out of the box the fans don't stop spinning when idle.
It's also worth making clear this is a pretty hefty card, it measures 292 x 130 x 59.6 mm so it's effectively a triple-slot card. At almost 30cm long it may not fit in certain small form-factor cases either, so definitely best to check before purchasing.
The white design carries on through to the backplate, and this is a full-length design with a cut-out behind the GPU core. That GameRock logo certainly won't be to everyone's tastes due to its Guitar Hero-inspired font, but it is one of the card's RGB zones so you can make it look quite flashy if you want to.
We can also note, on the front side of the card just next to the NVLink finger, a dual-BIOS switch. By default the card ships in BIOS 1, the ‘OC' mode, but you can enable BIOS 2, the ‘Silent' mode, if you want. We test the difference this makes later in the review.
As for the RGB lighting, I have to say it looks excellent, contrasting very nicely against the white shroud. Previous GameRock cards only had the RGB strips on the underside of the shroud, so if you mounted the card horizontally in your case (as is standard), you wouldn't see the lighting. Now, with the RGB logo on the backplate, no matter how you mount the card in your case you will be able to see some of the RGB LEDs.
As for power connectors, you'll need 2x 8-pin plugs to run the 2080 SUPER WGRP. We can also get a look at the video outputs, with 3x DisplayPort, 1x HDMI and 1x VirtualLink Type-C connectors present.
Opening up the card to look at the PCB, as far as I can tell it is the same design as the RTX 2080 GameRock Premium we reviewed last year. That means Palit has opted for a 10+2 power delivery configuration, which is an extra two phases for the GPU versus the 2080 SUPER Founders Edition.
Memory chips are provided by Samsung, with each chip labelled ‘K4Z80325BC-HC16‘. The GPU die is labelled ‘TU104-450-A1', indicating this is a full TU104 with 48 SMs as found on the 2080 SUPER.
The card's heatsink design is again identical to the vanilla RTX 2080 GameRock Premium, meaning it is comprised of two separate fin stacks that are connected by 5x 8mm copper heatpipes. The GPU contacts with a copper baseplate, while there is a separate coldplate around that to cool the VRAM chips. A smaller coldplate, with plenty of thermal pads, is positioned to the right of this to cool the VRM and MOSFETs.
