Saturday, September 19th 2020

GIGABYTE Unveils RTX 3090 TURBO: For When You Absolutely Need Lateral Blowers for 350W GPUs

Sep 19th, 2020 01:24 Discuss (56 Comments)

Perhaps the most unique GeForce RTX 3090 offerings from GIGABYTE has to be the Turbo Edition. Possibly its most cost-effective card based on the $1,500 GPU, the Turbo Edition features a classic lateral-blower based cooling solution that guides all its air through an aluminium channel-type heatsink, and out of the rear bracket, with none of it exhausted into the case. This is a bold choice for a cooler given the feisty 350 W typical board power for the RTX 3090. The card is exactly 2 slots thick, and just 26.6 cm long, making it possibly the shortest air-cooled RTX 3090. It's a little over 11 cm tall (standard full-height). An interesting design choice by GIGABYTE is to locate the card's two 8-pin PCIe power connectors at the tail end of the card. GIGABYTE didn't reveal whether the card features factory-overclocked speeds, but we expect it to stick to reference speeds. Display outputs include two each of HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a connectors.

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56 Comments on GIGABYTE Unveils RTX 3090 TURBO: For When You Absolutely Need Lateral Blowers for 350W GPUs

#26

Bubster

put AIO in the front of the chassi with the tube upright down to Cpu/gpu is the best option push /pull config with good SP fans

#27

ppn

londisteYour picture cannot be the same card. The fan would not fit and 8-pin connectors are clearly aimed up.

GIGABYTE can aim this BOX thing at any direction, but it's there. On the Eagle version. if you look at it.

#28

EarthDog

Then should just call it miners edition...

We should call posts that think mining is still REALLY worth it and profitable affecting gpu sales (etc) a waste of precious thread space edition. :p

We need to move past this already. 2015 was 5 years ago.

#29

Vayra86

dinmasterits for that sick $4k sli setup

WHAT? I can't hear you over my sick SLI setup ;)

I've had two midrange blowers in SLI at some point.... never... ever... again.

#30

DemonicRyzen666

I really hate to post this because this guys also a hypocrite, because in later videos he contradicts it.

I personally like blower cards, especially the hybrid ones.

EVGA's hybrid's use fans while Colorful's hybrids use Blower.

I'm tired of the hate on blower cards.

#31

Tomgang

I had blower style cooled cards back in 2009 with gtx 285 I 3 way sli. That was the first and last time I ever had a blower style cooled card.

Blower is for me = hot running, noisy and hornestly blower style just doesn't look as good as a 3 fan normal cooler and then mount such a cooler on to a 350 tgp watt card, sounds like the solution to a jet engine in your home making wast amount of heat. Now a decade later blower cooler are hopefully more efficient and better now.

But from my experience so far with blower coolers. This will not be the 3090 I would get, not even if it was the only one available for a long time.

#32

dont whant to set it"'

@QUANTUMPHYSICS there are some "unicorn" chassis's out there for example (my case) , it can fit an ssi-ceb (e-atx) mb , it's adequately fitted with appropriate fans for airflow , witch sayd airflow feeds and envelopes the graphics card , all in all with respect to the gravity well of our planet , bottom is cold air intake , top is exaust. Come to think of it , my search for the PC case was only a two days long one .

#33

D1RTYD1Z619

This will save people from alot of small form factor probs with RTX 3090.

DemonicRyzen666I really hate to post this because this guys also a hypocrite, because in later videos he contradicts it.

I personally like blower cards, especially the hybrid ones.

EVGA's hybrid's use fans while Colorful's hybrids use Blower.

I'm tired of the hate on blower cards.

I stopped watching that chump years ago

#34

TechLurker

Idle curiosity, why not a 3 slot blower model? More cooling, larger radial fan (or even replaced with a quieter axial fan and wider air channel guides), and most residential PCs don't usually have other cards taking residence in the 3rd or 4th PCIe slot (depending on where the mobo maker puts the GPU slot). Besides, some of the larger GPU AIB variants tend to be 2.5 to 3 slot anyway.

#35

Jism

hatFor those worried about heat, power, and noise, don't forget that it's all too easy to install Afterburner and simply lower the power target. I can easily shave 60w off my system power consumption by setting my power target to a modest, yet still capable, 80%. I only turn up the power target when I am cold and I want my computer to generate additional heat.

A simple undervolt should do the trick as well; same goes with a CPU. The cooler you run your hardware in general the less power components need. I know it sounds strange but a GPU running at a modest 60 degrees on full load needs less power then the GPU running at 80 degrees load.

I like the design choice of Gigabyte, having the 2x8 pins at the back of the card and not on top or nvidia's 12 pin.

#36

Caring1

ppnUntil you see that special extender thing hiding under the shroud. I hope they make custom PSU cable for that.

How hard can it be, it's still only two 8 pin connectors, they have only flattened it out so it is 8 wires wide.

#37

Rob94hawk

OK so when are these going to be released into the wild?

#38

Camm

dont whant to set it"'@QUANTUMPHYSICS there are some "unicorn" chassis's out there for example (my case) , it can fit an ssi-ceb (e-atx) mb , it's adequately fitted with appropriate fans for airflow , witch sayd airflow feeds and envelopes the graphics card , all in all with respect to the gravity well of our planet , bottom is cold air intake , top is exaust. Come to think of it , my search for the PC case was only a two days long one .

I must admit I'm tempted, my FT05 can get enough air around and over that blower that it might make sense tbh.

#39

Ubersonic

Nice, this is what the flounders edition should have been.

#40

ppn

Caring1How hard can it be, it's still only two 8 pin connectors, they have only flattened it out so it is 8 wires wide.

Only if the metal inserts are the same on the 8 pin and on the flat 8pin. so it can be bypassed, by rolling a custom cable using all the available parts. It could actually be a good thing allowing for some ITX beauty cable management. Cant wait for builtzoid's opinion on this.

#41

MadStacksYo 1979psn

AthloniteHa LOL I bet the only thing "Turbo" about this card will be the sound it makes when you get upto temp

hahahahaha

#42

Berfs1

InVasManiThis right here is why people don't like blower fans on GPU's...they shouldn't be paired to 350w cards. They work fine on more like a 250w card, but add another 50w to 100w more and they quickly start to sound like a damn airplane jet motor.

Which is perfect for servers lol

#43

Ruru

S.T.A.R.S.

ppnUntil you see that special extender thing hiding under the shroud. I hope they make custom PSU cable for that.

At least it's a better solution than 1060/2060(S)/2070 reference which had the PCIe powercable hardwired to the card.

#44

thebluebumblebee

Water cooling starter kit. I would not be surprised if, behind the scenes, GB isn't pushing this turbo model to the water cooling industry. Why pay for an expensive air cooler if you're just going to pull it off and throw it in a box?

#45

AusWolf

Makes total sense. The 3090 has plenty of beef anyway, so when it clocks down to 1.1 GHz to protect itself from overheating, you won't even notice. At least your CPU will run 5 °C cooler. :rockout:

#46

ppn

What makes sence exactly. Bare in mind that everything was planned for 7nm. 8nm must have been last minute decision. the real size of GA102 should have been 426mm2, proportional to GA100.
So we are looking at a headless chicken that still keeps running around the area not accepting that it has been beheaded. moving on inertia. and people are buying this headless chicken for the real thing, but these as good as they are, are just the placeholder for Hopper.

#47

TheoneandonlyMrK

Xex360Makes sense especially if you put two of them to do real work without ruining yourself with a quadro.

Ruin your ears that, made for a waterblock.

#48

kapone32

How does the 3090 come with 2 8 pins when the 3080 AIBs have 3?

#49

EarthDog

kapone32How does the 3090 come with 2 8 pins when the 3080 AIBs have 3?

Spec between the pcie slot and 2 8-pins is 375W.

They likely have a higher power limit that would come close to or surpass that.. and marketing. 3 is moar than tew sew it must bee betr.:p

#50

kapone32

EarthDogSpec between the pcie slot and 2 8-pins is 375W.

They likely have a higher power limit that would come close to or surpass that.. and marketing. 3 is moar than tew sew it must bee betr.:p

I know what you mean but is not the 3090 a more powerful card than the 3080 and based on reviews the 3080 can go past 400 Watts? Will the reference 3090 come with that 12 pin connector? Perhaps this card could be factory locked for OC?

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