Monday, September 12th 2022

ZOTAC RTX 4090 Graphics Card Pictured

The tentative day of announcement for NVIDIA's next-gen RTX 4000 series is fast approaching, with an expected announcement from NVIDIA through its GeForce Beyond broadcast, scheduled for September 20th at GTC. And with time running out until we see what NVIDIA has laid in store for us, photographs of ZOTAC'z iteration of the RTX 4090 are already leaking about - specifically in Baidu.

The photographs showcase a production run from ZOTAC's RTX 4090 cards, featuring a complete cooling and shroud redesign for NVIDIA's next-generation. Gone are the typical straight, boxy lines of any high-tier GPU; ZOTAC seems to be taking a more curvaceous approach to design this time, with more organic lines enveloping a more mundane heatsink. The card features ZOTAC's IceStorm 3.0 cooling solution, which houses a triple-fan, triple-slot design that extends more than a third of its area over the PCB itself. There's still no confirmation on board power and the GPU powering these cards themselves, but we have some very (very) educated guesses.
Sources: Videocardz, Baidu
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56 Comments on ZOTAC RTX 4090 Graphics Card Pictured

#2
TheDeeGee
Goes nice with the Apple iMac G3.
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#3
Valantar
phanbueyit looks like a small boat.
SMALL? o_O

(Yes, I know boats are generally bigger than GPUs. I just don't think the word "small" belongs in the same neighbourhood as this GPU, unless preceded by "not".)

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if those are 120mm fans at this point.
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#4
DeathtoGnomes
ValantarHeck, I wouldn't be surprised if those are 120mm fans at this point.
I hear people do Ghetto Mods, could fix that if they arent. :rolleyes: :D I'd settle for 100mm.
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#5
Guwapo77
Sure is a lot of Nvidia leaks, where is the AMD 7900XT? :ohwell::ohwell::ohwell:
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#6
Dragokar
These look like modern jesus sandals......
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#7
ppn
Upside down sports car with no wheels.
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#8
Colddecked
That backplate looks like an axe blade.
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#9
Arco
DeathtoGnomesI hear people do Ghetto Mods, could fix that if they arent. :rolleyes: :D I'd settle for 100mm.
That's no GPU. It's a 360mm Radiator.
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#10
taka
4 slots at least, taller than bracket with 5-6 cm... from the looks of it 1.5-1.8 kg.
on the chonk chart it's a "hefty chonk"



now let's see what type of slot enforcing we need fo it and maybe 2-3 GPU antisag things
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#11
Gundem
Haha, l like Zotac but I'm not ready for those rounded corners.
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#12
Valantar
taka4 slots at least, taller than bracket with 5-6 cm
Gotta love it when a three-slot PCIe I/O bracket is left dangling off the table due to the thickness of the card :laugh:
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#13
Arco
All I'm going to do to support the fat GPU is flip the pc case and use it as a monitor stand. :D
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#14
Chomiq
F#ck Zotac, they're probably sending them to miners just in case.
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#15
Vayra86
taka4 slots at least, taller than bracket with 5-6 cm... from the looks of it 1.5-1.8 kg.
on the chonk chart it's a "hefty chonk"



now let's see what type of slot enforcing we need fo it and maybe 2-3 GPU antisag things
No you get a brick and some mortar with it so you can build a wall in your PC.
And no instructions on how to update BIOS, so you can turn GPU in said brick. And there you have your GPU anti sag support for the next build/upgrade. This is Nvidia caring about the environment.
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#16
taka
Damn this guy was a visionary or Nvidia just copy him

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#17
Dr. Dro
I like how the picture carefully leaves out the memory capacity :p

I would guess it stays at 24 GB GDDR6X, no improvement over the RTX 3090 in that regard. But man the way they advertise the fine tuned drivers as a feature in the box is hilarious. Maybe if you strictly use Windows... NVIDIA's Linux support is simply dismal.
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#18
Space Lynx
Astronaut
if I can get the 4090 for $999 I will do it. i doubt if it will be that price though so eh.

most likely waiting for RDNA3. don't let me down AMD! give me supply!
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#19
Chrispy_
The 40-series is likely going to make vertical GPU mounting more popular; These 2-3Kg cards are simply too heavy to hang off the PCIe slot and the rear IO plate horizontally.

Also, despite the obvious need for board partners to make the most ridiculous halo card with the beefiest VRMs and highest factory-OC, they are as stupid as it comes. Clearly the real-world limitations of these cards are going to be how big a transient spike your PSU can handle before the rig bluescreens and reboots, 1500W PSUs were needed to reliably power the most extreme 3090Ti cards. On top of that, everyone has a limit for how much noise they're willing to tolerate from all the GPU and case fans attempting to evacuate 600W+ of heat from a contact patch the size of a coin.

I'm currently using an air-cooled card again but if/when I upgrade I can plumb a GPU back into the loop - on the condition that my CPU and GPU don't overwhelm the cooling that a 140+360mm radiator with 1200rpm fans can provide. My estimate is that 500W is about all it will handle and I refuse to deal with fan noise so will purchase a GPU based on TDP, not performance.
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#20
amd64skater
takaDamn this guy was a visionary or Nvidia just copy him

lol that's so funny
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#21
Arco
Chrispy_The 40-series is likely going to make vertical GPU mounting more popular; These 2-3Kg cards are simply too heavy to hang off the PCIe slot and the rear IO plate horizontally.

Also, despite the obvious need for board partners to make the most ridiculous halo card with the beefiest VRMs and highest factory-OC, they are as stupid as it comes. Clearly the real-world limitations of these cards are going to be how big a transient spike your PSU can handle before the rig bluescreens and reboots, 1500W PSUs were needed to reliably power the most extreme 3090Ti cards. On top of that, everyone has a limit for how much noise they're willing to tolerate from all the GPU and case fans attempting to evacuate 600W+ of heat from a contact patch the size of a coin.
But pc go brr and numbers go higher!

Luckily I can use a wireless noise-suppressing headset.
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#22
Hxx
“Love gaming power the win “ wtf does that even mean? LoL
mind as well grab random words to plaster on that retail box “win rgb gaming love best”
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#23
ZetZet
Hxx“Love gaming power the win “ wtf does that even mean? LoL
mind as well grab random words to plaster on that retail box “win rgb gaming love best”
Meaning lost in translation.
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#24
Vayra86
Hxx“Love gaming power the win “ wtf does that even mean? LoL
mind as well grab random words to plaster on that retail box “win rgb gaming love best”
What do you mean, everyone opens with that line in Chinese internet cafe's.

Also, all your base are belong to us!
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#25
ZoneDymo
Hxx“Love gaming power the win “ wtf does that even mean? LoL
mind as well grab random words to plaster on that retail box “win rgb gaming love best”
Love gaming, power the win.

I mean yeah it not great but this will power your winning streaks (through high fps and settings) while playing those games you love.


On article, can anyone tell me why those 4 chips are exposed, same as last/current gen?
Like why not have them connected to the backplate with a thermalpad?
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