Tuesday, December 1st 2020
ASUS Intros GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo OC with a Lateral Blower
ASUS looks to one-up GIGABYTE by pairing a 350-Watt GeForce RTX 3090 with a classic lateral blower cooling solution, by introducing its new RTX 3090 Turbo OC graphics card (model: TURBO-RTX3090-24G). ASUS claims that the card is designed for "environments with restricted airflow." The card is strictly 2 slots thick, and just about qualifies for "full height" (measures 26.8 cm in length and 11.3 cm in height). It uses two 8-pin PCIe power inputs, which are located at the tail end of the card, instead of the top. These connectors are right next to mounts for extenders for workstation cases.
The ASUS RTX 3090 Turbo OC uses an 80 mm lateral blower with a double ball-bearing; which guides air through a copper-channel heatsink that uses a vapor-chamber plate to pull heat from the GPU and memory. An aluminium secondary base-plate pulls heat from the various VRM components and conveys it to the vapor-chamber plate. The card also offers a mild software-activated OC mode, which dials up the GPU Boost frequency to 1725 MHz (up from 1695 MHz reference). The memory is untouched at 19.5 Gbps (GDDR6X-effective). Display outputs include one HDMI 2.1, and three DisplayPort 1.4a. The company didn't reveal pricing.
The ASUS RTX 3090 Turbo OC uses an 80 mm lateral blower with a double ball-bearing; which guides air through a copper-channel heatsink that uses a vapor-chamber plate to pull heat from the GPU and memory. An aluminium secondary base-plate pulls heat from the various VRM components and conveys it to the vapor-chamber plate. The card also offers a mild software-activated OC mode, which dials up the GPU Boost frequency to 1725 MHz (up from 1695 MHz reference). The memory is untouched at 19.5 Gbps (GDDR6X-effective). Display outputs include one HDMI 2.1, and three DisplayPort 1.4a. The company didn't reveal pricing.
21 Comments on ASUS Intros GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo OC with a Lateral Blower
So I'm OK with a blower fan.
I didn't suggest watercooling, I was suggesting getting the stock cooler from someone that does change to water cooling.
This is for workstation, GPU server use. You can't put a gaming card into those systems because they are both too long ( workstations and servers are designed to be used with QUADRO like GPUs and have specific dimension restrictions ) and populates 3 slots ( you can only fit 5 GPUs with 3 SLOTS on a 8 GPU server, this is not wise for performance nor investment aspect ). Also the PCI-ex power connectors don't allow to be used with 4U servers ( Need to use a 0.5 U or a 1U lid extension Top Cover which means to loose space in server racks and use more area for dense systems use ).
Blower fan design is for to be used work station cases which are thermally designed to be used with QUADRO GPUs and have a better cooling for multi-GPU usage ). I have been setting up several Deep Learning and GPU render systems with blower GPUs and they were not loud as people think ( in a server, you won't even hear it because of servers high RPM cooling fans. )
Funny how blowers are now becoming niche, but they serve a purpose for sure.