Customized printed board designs (PCB) and {custom} liquid cooling techniques are expensive. Inno3D’s GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Black and GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Frostbite boards have these options in an try and tame Nvidia’s newest entry in our listing of the finest graphics playing cards, so anticipate them to be costlier than typical AD102-based merchandise. But the Frostbite model will probably be cheaper than shopping for an FE or a reference GeForce RTX 4090 board and an aftermarket waterblock from corporations like EKWB.
Nvidia’s AD102 graphics processing unit has been specifically architected to hit very excessive clocks, but it surely wants respectable cooling to push its method in direction of 3 GHz. To assist the GPU to unleash its beastly nature, Inno3D teamed up with Arctic to construct one of many business’s first GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a pre-installed all-in-one liquid cooling system. Additionally, Inno3D has a GeForce RTX 4090 with a pre-installed waterblock for {custom} liquid cooling techniques.
Really, Inno3D is the one graphics playing cards provider that presently has two liquid cooling choices in its GeForce RTX 4090 lineup. The Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Black comes with a {custom} closed-loop liquid cooling system from Arctic (by way of TechPowerUp), whereas the Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Frostbite is supplied with a specifically designed waterblock for custom-built liquid cooling techniques.
Each boards naturally carry Nvidia’s AD102 GPU (with 16384 CUDA cores clocked at 2580 MHz enhance frequency out-of-box) coupled with 24GB of 21 GT/s GDDR6X reminiscence and options 12VHPWR (12+4-pin) auxiliary PCIe energy connector designed to feed the board with as much as 450W of energy.
Whereas the out-of-box GPU enhance clocks of each playing cards don’t appear to be too excessive (2580 MHz vs. 2520 MHz advisable by Nvidia is hardly a tangible enhance), the extremely environment friendly hybrid all-in-one liquid cooling system or a waterblock for a {custom} LCS promise to supply a really important headroom each for greater enhance clocks and for overclocking. Holding in thoughts what sometimes will be executed with GeForce RTX 4090, we’re in all probability 2.70 – 2.80 GHz enhance clocks right here with out a lot problem. With some further luck and tweaking, a few of these graphics playing cards might method a 3 GHz GPU frequency (understand that overclocking is a lottery).
One other benefit of Inno3D’s GeForce RTX 4090 iChill boards is their dimensions. In contrast to Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Version in addition to AD102-based add-in-board with air cooling, the Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Black and GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Frostbite are dual-wide graphics playing cards that may match into any instances that may accommodate hybrid AIO or {custom} LCS. They’re additionally shorter than air cooled boards, which can have an effect on inside airflows inside a chassis and can make it simpler to put in further parts after the boards are plugged in.