The GeForce RTX 4090, which tops our record of greatest graphics playing cards, is a 450W graphics card. Contemplating the latter, it does not sound like a good suggestion to slap a blower on the Ada Lovelace flagship. Nevertheless it seems like one courageous graphics card vendor went forward and did that anyway, and now a Redditor has introduced us the primary analysis of a GeForce RTX 4090 with a blower cooler.
The mysterious GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card sports activities a dual-slot design with a blower-style cooling system. In addition to the GeForce RTX emblem and its mannequin identify, the graphics card lacks any logos that may give us a clue as to its producer. Nevertheless, an fascinating piece of Morse code interprets to “AI Version,” which alludes to the rationale behind the blower design. In line with the GPU-Z screenshot, Nvidia is the sub-vendor for the graphics card. Nevertheless, the GeForce RTX 4090 seems nearly an identical to a Manli Geforce RTX 4090 blower graphics card that surfaced just a few months in the past.
The proprietor recounted within the Reddit thread (opens in new tab) that he purchased the GeForce RTX 4090 in Japan from an unmentioned vendor for the equal of $2,675. The graphics card arrived in an obscure white field with no advertising or branding. Except for the froth to carry the graphics card in place and the triple 8-pin to 12VHPWR adapter, nothing else was contained in the field. It did not even embody a person handbook or guarantee card.
The GeForce RTX 4090 blower shares the precise specs as Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Version. The facility restrict is locked right down to 450W. Nonetheless, the Redditor nonetheless managed to place an additional 1,800 MHz on the reminiscence. Regardless of counting on a blower cooler, the efficiency did not seem like compromised. The benchmarks confirmed the graphics card’s efficiency was throughout the margins of different GeForce RTX 4090 fashions.
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Underneath a heavy workload, the GeForce RTX 4090 appears like a jet engine. In line with the proprietor, the cooling followers ramp as much as a whopping 5,200 RPM. The default fan curve permits the GPU temperature to hit 78 levels Celsius (C) and the reminiscence to scale to 96 C. Utilizing a customized and extra aggressive fan curve, the GPU temperatures drop to 67 C whereas the reminiscence comfortably sits round 88 C.
Along with hardcore avid gamers, Nvidia has positioned the GeForce RTX x090-tier SKUs to creators and researchers. Nevertheless, the chipmaker is not very keen on producers that put out blower-type fashions as a result of they cannibalize the model’s A-series fashions, which have changed the Quadro lineup.
For instance, some system integrators favored the GeForce RTX 3090 blower graphics playing cards over Nvidia’s costlier A-series choices, such because the A100, of their server merchandise. Though we by no means received an official assertion from Nvidia and its companions refused to touch upon the rationale, GeForce RTX 3090 blower graphics playing cards magically disappeared with out a hint.
Not like the everyday GeForce RTX 4090 with a 3.5-slot design (which may typically cross over to the 4-slot area) this blower variant solely makes use of two slots. This design permits the GeForce RTX 4090 to suit into very compact instances and lets skilled customers set up a number of (typically as much as 4) graphics playing cards right into a single system.
As well as, given the GeForce RTX 4090’s specs and beneficiant 24GB VRAM with ECC help, it is a succesful graphics card for specialised workloads together with synthetic intelligence, machine studying, and deep studying. The GeForce RTX 4090 is virtually a poor man’s A-series, so to talk.
We have seen zero bulletins for GeForce RTX 4090 blower graphics playing cards — the Manli one is barely on our radar courtesy of a {hardware} leaker. So maybe Nvidia remains to be in opposition to the concept of distributors releasing blower variations of its flagship GeForce RTX gaming merchandise, which might clarify why the GeForce RTX 4090 from the Reddit thread does not carry branding.