An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a dual-slot form factor and a loud blower-type cooler has been spotted.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card With Blower-Style Cooler Comes In A Much More Feasible Dual-Slot Form Factor
Blower-type graphics cards are not standard in the marketplace, especially for gaming. NVIDIA was one of the forerunners in the GPU market that adopted the design several years back, but the intention was to offer an efficient way to keep the graphics card cool while gaming. However, the design was quickly replaced with Axial type fans which offered far better cooling potential with lower noise output and also less noise.
Most AIBs later resorted to launching graphics cards with traditional blowert-ype coolers with fancy names such as the “Turbo” models from Gigabyte. These were designed for niche users who had a requirement to save space and incorporate multiple cards within their systems. Now, with graphics cards requiring a more advanced cooling solution due to the power and high temperatures they produce, finding an older design such as this is unusual. Still, one has been found in Asia utilizing the Gigabyte PCB.
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MEGAsizeGPU first spotted the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Blower graphics card & provided images and a specification sheet offering much more detail.
Gigabyte RTX4090 Blower pic.twitter.com/b4Sj6MQT7Z
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) February 23, 2023
Several blower-styled graphics cards were used in research and workstations as an affordable replacement for the more expensive RTX Quadro graphics cards. When NVIDIA found that enterprises and other organizations were replacing more costly offerings to consumer-grade blower-style graphics cards with the same silicon and GPU architecture, the company began to halt manufacturing these graphics cards. The company also changed the functionality of newer graphics cards, requiring businesses and more to pay premium prices for faster and more advanced technology.
The mysterious card found by MEGAsizeGPU shares the same board designs as the consumer NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, offering a dual-slot blower fan cooling solution. Website VideoCardz notes that the design of the GPU is most likely modeled after the GeForce RTX 4090 WindForce graphics card. The images show that it offers the 16-pin power connection found on many of the RTX 4090 GPUs, and the specifications allow us to see the intended power of this unknown graphics card.
The specs sheet shows that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU comes with 16,384 cores with 512 Tensor Cores and 128 ray tracing (RT) cores. The core clock is 2520 MHz and with 24 GB GDDR6X memory. The memory interface is 384 bits and offers a max resolution of 7680 x 4320.
A similar NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU was spotted a while back which also featured a similar 2-slot and blower-style cooler. The card ran at a GPU temperature of 78C with hot spot temperatures hovering around 80C while the memory temperatures hovered around 98C while the fans ran at a 5200 RPM speed. Such temperatures are expected since the gaming models require triple or even four-slot heatsinks with triple-fan coolers but that’s not the case here.
It is possible that this card is not manufactured by Gigabyte but utilizes the PCB made by the company. Some companies will remove any involvement with the parts they are “borrowing” to create custom designs for sale. This is why graphics cards are found online and sold by unknown companies using obvious designs from more prominent manufacturers, such as Gigabyte.
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