Friday, December 30th 2022

2-slot Air-Cooled GeForce RTX 4090 with Lateral Blower Shows Up in China

A Chinese graphics card manufacturer unveiled what is likely the only 2-slot, air-cooled GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card in existence. Most gaming-segment RTX 4090 graphics cards tend to be 3-4 slots thick, and the only 2-slot ones are liquid-cooled ones. This is due to the 450 W stock typical graphics power rating of the RTX 4090, which can go as high as 600 W for certain custom-design cards. This product is aimed at the niche that wants a bunch of RTX 4090 cards in a space-constrained workstation chassis.

The card appears to be around 30-32 cm in length, and its height is strictly what constitutes "full-height" (11.5 cm). The cooler is in fact 1-2 mm thinner than what constitutes 2-slot; and probably uses a vapor-chamber plate welded to a stack of aluminium or copper channels that dissipate heat to airflow from a lateral-blower. The heatsink may look underpowered for a GPU like the RTX 4090, but probably over-relies on the blower operating at a very high RPM at all times—same principal as server cooling, where an array of 40 mm fans at nearly max-RPM push air through thin channel-type heatsinks cooling large 250 W TDP server processors. The card lacks a backplate to make it easier for the adjacent card to breathe in air. Power is drawn from a 16-pin ATX 12VHPWR connector located at the tail-end of the card, rather than on its top. The card reportedly has its power limits locked to 450 W (probably through power-connector signal keying). The card was briefly available on Alibaba-owned peer-to-peer trading platform Goofish, where it was priced at RMB ¥15,000 (about USD $2,150).
Source: VideoCardz
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34 Comments on 2-slot Air-Cooled GeForce RTX 4090 with Lateral Blower Shows Up in China

#26
Outback Bronze
I usually buy these type of cards for blocks as they are generally sold cheaper so the extra coin saved goes towards a block.

Just needs compatibility for them.
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#27
ZoneDymo
ThrashZoneHi,
Thermal defect no thanks it's why nvidia ditched the dated cooling design.
I think that has more to do with noise and simple marketing and tbf the current 4090 and 4080 coolers are REDICULOUS and completely unneeded.
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#28
watzupken
Blower type cooler is actually good if done right since heat from the GPU goes right out of the chassis instead of it lingering around in the case. The downside is noise because blower fans tend to be very loud.
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#29
QUANTUMPHYSICS
TheDeeGeePerfect for those playing the flight sim DCS?
I built my machine to run DCS. DCS's graphics, even at 4K, don't need even a 3080 to run well (even in VR). I was running it on a 3090 FTW3 until I got my 4090 Strix ROG. You could get away with a 2080.

DCS needs the fastest possible CPU and the most/fastest Memory to get the best out of it. SSD is a necessity as well as Hard Drives just don't load textures fast enough. A 2TB SSD is recommended.


I'm building a 13900K with 64GB of DDR5 and 4TB SSD. I have the Saitek X56 and Logitech G-pedals with Oculus Quest 2 for it.

"A Chinese graphics card manufacturer"

That's where I tap out.

I am so disappointed in the loss of EVGA from the 4000 series.
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#30
DemonicRyzen666
The only reason side vent coolers do better is because their over all heat sinks are larger & have more mass with weight.

If/When they take one of these Blowers apart they should weight the heat sink alone & compare it the weight with a side vent heat sink.
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#31
vvkvvkvvk
I have had recent blower cooler cards (RTX A4000, 2080Ti Turbo) and they've been quiet enough. The main plus is that they exhaust the heat, while newer huge cards just trap the air in the PCI slot area.

They should make 3 slot 90-100 mm blower card tuned for quietness.
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#32
qubit
Overclocked quantum bit
Two slots on a power hungry 4090? I'll bet it's a noisy, throttling POS. I hope TPU reviews it as it should be interesting to see how the compromises have crippled its performance.
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#33
TheDeeGee
QUANTUMPHYSICSI built my machine to run DCS. DCS's graphics, even at 4K, don't need even a 3080 to run well (even in VR). I was running it on a 3090 FTW3 until I got my 4090 Strix ROG. You could get away with a 2080.

DCS needs the fastest possible CPU and the most/fastest Memory to get the best out of it. SSD is a necessity as well as Hard Drives just don't load textures fast enough. A 2TB SSD is recommended.


I'm building a 13900K with 64GB of DDR5 and 4TB SSD. I have the Saitek X56 and Logitech G-pedals with Oculus Quest 2 for it.

"A Chinese graphics card manufacturer"

That's where I tap out.

I am so disappointed in the loss of EVGA from the 4000 series.
It was more as a joke, because a 2-slot blower on a 4090 will sound like a jet ^^
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