I hope this new RTX 4080 leak is fake or we're going to need a bigger PC

pcgamer.com:

There is a picture posted on Twitter showing an alleged RTX 4080 graphics card(opens in new tab), which looks for all the world like it's sporting the oversized shroud of the RTX 3090 Founders Edition(opens in new tab). That means it's big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to the RTX 3090.

I remember this happening prior to the release of the RTX 30-series cards—where pictures of the FE cards spilled out of the factories where they were being put together, and Jacob and I spent hours poring over them trying to discern whether they were Photoshopped or not. They looked so damned big they couldn't be real. 

But it was the RTX 3090 design that was pictured and, when it finally landed on my doorstep ahead of launch, it really did look for all the world like some novelty sized graphics card. And it still does. Every time I look inside my PC it makes me giggle at the absurdity of its scale.

And now the RTX 4080 is supposedly running to the same size. I can't quite make out whether the bracket is for a dual- or triple-slot card, but other than that they look exactly the same scale.

So, if this is indeed a genuine image of a new RTX 4080 retail-ready card then we're going to need some bigger PC cases to cope with the scale of the new cards.  

I dread to think just how vast the RTX 4090 might end up being. It's also going to mean the small form factor gaming PC crowd is going to be completely left behind by Nvidia's top RTX 40-series(opens in new tab) cards.

As I said, I scoffed at the leaked RTX 30-series cards, and thankfully the enormous triple slot Founders Edition shroud was limited to the RTX