Like all brands, MSI tends to dabble with different concepts and possible product improvements. Over at its Computex booth this year, one of those products was a special NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super 16G that goes by the name Expert Fuzion.
We actually saw the non-Fuzion version of the RTX 4080 Super Expert back at the start of the year, when we were over at Las Vegas for CES 2024. At a glance, one half of the cooler shroud looks more like a cheese grater than it does a grill, or as someone close to us said – it looks like a knock-off Founders Edition that you’d find on Wish.
Getting back to the main story, The RTX 4080 Super Expert Fuzion basically takes the idea of an AIO, along with the concept of space-saving and compact design, and shrinks it down into the size and space of a 3-slot graphics card. MSI calls this an integrated liquid-cooled hybrid pump, and it uses a low-profile pump while retaining the same push-pull airflow design. Basically, think of NVIDIA’s Dual Axis Flowthrough design on its Founders Edition card, the main difference here being the addition of a self-contained water-cooler.
As innovative as this design actually is, we have to say that MSI may be a few years late to the party. And the reason is that, back in 2019, ASUS beat it to the punch when it showed off the ROG Matrix RTX 2080 Ti. Yes, we know it’s an older GPU but the concept is similar, if not the same.
Of course, AIO technology has come a long away since then, and while the company isn’t sharing performance metrics with us, it’s likely that this solution could help the RTX 4080 Super drop its operating temperatures by several degrees than its air-cooled counterpart.
