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
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.
56 Comments on ZOTAC RTX 4090 Graphics Card Pictured
Definitely not an excuse for wasting power for number chasing though. :)
The demand forced the difference to be below $100 in some cases the last week.
I wonder how many from the potential 4090 buyers (after one Q that the first wave of enthusiasts will buy it anyway ) will buy and undervolt, go one tier down to 4080 or switch to AMD.
450W just doesn't seem to be as popular as Nvidia though.
I do hope the 4000 series undervolts as well as the 3000 series.
I can get slightly better performance at lower fan speeds, temperatures, and voltage vs stock on this card. In the handful of benchmarks I typically use, stock the FTW3 boost range is 1850MHz to 1895HMz with voltages 0.98Xv to 1.081v. When undervolting it to 0.925v, it will do either 1905MHz (intensive RTX) or 1920MHz (rasterization). I can't even hear the card in my case over the projector fan and the max temp is low 70s C. This card becomes parabolically more picky with increased clocks, even as I add voltage. Not worth it. I could muster about 2.X% more out of it when adding +150MHz to the clock, but with ridiculous heat and fan speed. Just not worth it.