Monday, November 7th 2022
The EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 We Wish You Had
EVGA abruptly ended its NVIDIA GeForce graphics card business in September. The company continues to make motherboards, PSUs, coolers, and gaming peripherals. Its graphics card business is believed to have been shuttered as the company was done developing custom-design GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards that never made it to mass-production. JayzTwoCents got their hands on one such graphics card, and by the looks of it, this is possibly the best custom-design RTX 4090.
Since it's no longer an AIC partner, EVGA isn't allowed to display "GeForce RTX" branding on the product, and so their EVGA "Next Gen Graphics" card is branded as such. The card is surprisingly compact compared to the other 33-36 cm RTX 4090 custom-design cards. EVGA made all efforts to maximize its spatial utilization with a high-density aluminium fin-stack heatsink.
The best part about this design is the location of the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector, which is located at the tail end of the card, as opposed to the top. This is a significant design choice, as it prevents the inevitable bending of the 12VHPWR-to-PCIe power adapter in typical mid-tower cases. Most RTX 4090 cards are about 15 cm tall, and when you add the 3.5 cm requirement of the power adapter to remain unbent for structural integrity; you effectively end up with a >185 mm-tall graphics card. Most mid-tower cases barely have 170 mm clearance for CPU cooler height.
The card also features an innovative new real I/O bracket design that minimizes sagging over time, even though the card supports EVGA's ELeash accessory, with two mounting points along the PCB. Another innovative feature is that the dual-BIOS selector switch has an LED indicator telling you which BIOS is in use at all time (performance vs. quiet). Lastly, the card comes with EVGA's patented iCX sensor suite, and Precision X software that lets you force the card to hold onto boost clocks at all times. Click on the source link below to watch this beautiful graphics card in 4K, by JayzTwoCents.
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Since it's no longer an AIC partner, EVGA isn't allowed to display "GeForce RTX" branding on the product, and so their EVGA "Next Gen Graphics" card is branded as such. The card is surprisingly compact compared to the other 33-36 cm RTX 4090 custom-design cards. EVGA made all efforts to maximize its spatial utilization with a high-density aluminium fin-stack heatsink.
The card also features an innovative new real I/O bracket design that minimizes sagging over time, even though the card supports EVGA's ELeash accessory, with two mounting points along the PCB. Another innovative feature is that the dual-BIOS selector switch has an LED indicator telling you which BIOS is in use at all time (performance vs. quiet). Lastly, the card comes with EVGA's patented iCX sensor suite, and Precision X software that lets you force the card to hold onto boost clocks at all times. Click on the source link below to watch this beautiful graphics card in 4K, by JayzTwoCents.
28 Comments on The EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 We Wish You Had
People say well what about brand advertising, I mean come on, 99% of people will never see your pc case window... and also artistic designs can sometimes get a brand thing going on too.
Maybe, EVGA had their board design stood up too much from the crowd.
Maybe, Ngreedia just could not allow such a 'disgrace' of the 12VHPWR connector positioned at the rear.
They had a argument, and broke up ?
Now we know who had a better vision tho.
Maybe they will pick it up again, but not this soon
As far as I'm aware, I don't think there are any other brands with the power on the end. :/
EVGA has made a name in the GPU market because of their RMA service but outside of that EVGA has been full of controversies even in their prime time both on hardware side of things and business side of things ( shafting regularly European customers on pricing and availability , multiple hardware failures , the whole 3090Ti debacle were they used JayzTwoCents to influence customers buying before they massive cut the price , just to name few recent ).
If NVIDIA was the one to blame then :
A) You would see major partners such as MSI or ASUS who have much more volume and diversified business compared to EVGA ( and therefore can afford to drop NVIDIA ) also quit the boat , which is not the case .
B) You would see EVGA immediatly partnering with AMD or Intel instead of quiting GPU market altogether which again is not the case .
So yeah at some point people got to put 1 and 1 together ....
Evga prior 30 series ftw3's have had plenty of issues, rma o-plenty that's got to hurt the bottom line.
Glad I skipped 20 and 30 and even more glad I'm skipping this 40 series 12-16 power plug nonsense too :laugh:
Tells you a lot what being NV partner means.
Literal example of abusive behaviour by a company dominating a market.
Yep insult to injury.