The EVGA GeForce RTX 4090 We Wish You Had

[btarunr]

EVGA abruptly ended its NVIDIA GeForce graphics card business in September. The company continues to make motherboards, PSUs, coolers, and gaming peripherals. Its graphics card business is believed to have been shuttered as the company was done developing custom-design GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards that never made it to mass-production. JayzTwoCents got their hands on one such graphics card, and by the looks of it, this is possibly the best custom-design RTX 4090.

Since it's no longer an AIC partner, EVGA isn't allowed to display "GeForce RTX" branding on the product, and so their EVGA "Next Gen Graphics" card is branded as such. The card is surprisingly compact compared to the other 33-36 cm RTX 4090 custom-design cards. EVGA made all efforts to maximize its spatial utilization with a high-density aluminium fin-stack heatsink.



The best part about this design is the location of the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector, which is located at the tail end of the card, as opposed to the top. This is a significant design choice, as it prevents the inevitable bending of the 12VHPWR-to-PCIe power adapter in typical mid-tower cases. Most RTX 4090 cards are about 15 cm tall, and when you add the 3.5 cm requirement of the power adapter to remain unbent for structural integrity; you effectively end up with a >185 mm-tall graphics card. Most mid-tower cases barely have 170 mm clearance for CPU cooler height.

The card also features an innovative new real I/O bracket design that minimizes sagging over time, even though the card supports EVGA's ELeash accessory, with two mounting points along the PCB. Another innovative feature is that the dual-BIOS selector switch has an LED indicator telling you which BIOS is in use at all time (performance vs. quiet). Lastly, the card comes with EVGA's patented iCX sensor suite, and Precision X software that lets you force the card to hold onto boost clocks at all times. Click on the source link below to watch this beautiful graphics card in 4K, by JayzTwoCents.

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[Fluffmeister]

Looks okay, nothing special really from EPSU.

 

[Chaitanya]

Even Gamers Nexus covered this GPU in more detail:

 

[Space Lynx]

I don't like that it lights up on the part saying "next gen graphics" seems a bit of a weird design choice to me. I wish companies would be more brave and actually do artistic designs for that section, instead of just using their name, etc.

People say well what about brand advertising, I mean come on, 99% of people will never see your pc case window... and also artistic designs can sometimes get a brand thing going on too.

 

[Nordic]

EVGA showing us what we are missing out on because of Nvidia.

 

[Crackong]

The 12VHPWR connector placement

Maybe this is why they broke up?
Maybe, EVGA had their board design stood up too much from the crowd.
Maybe, Ngreedia just could not allow such a 'disgrace' of the 12VHPWR connector positioned at the rear.

They had a argument, and broke up ?

Now we know who had a better vision tho.

 

[Space Lynx]

Maybe this is why they broke up?
Maybe, EVGA had their board design stood up too much from the crowd.
Maybe, Ngreedia just could not allow such a 'disgrace' of the 12VHPWR connector positioned at the rear.

They had a argument, and broke up ?

Now we know who had a better vision tho.

Agreed. The design choice of having giant ass cables seen from window of your case (and Nvidia can't be so daft as to not realize that majority of PC gamers now have that window in their case where you can see inside)... its just a bit silly really.

 

[Camm]

I want that card so badly, lol.

 

[Crackong]

Agreed. The design choice of having giant ass cables seen from window of your case

Before that...you can't even close the side panel if you are using one of their 'official' adaptor, or risk of burning the precious $1599 card.

 

[Mussels]

Was EVGAS warranty practises just going to screw them over with how Nvidia made these, with high risk of failures and lower profit margins?

 

[Kirederf]

So now we know what the EVGA RX 7900XTX FTW3 will look like

 

[btarunr]

So now we know what the EVGA RX 7900XTX FTW3 will look like

EVGA laid off most of its graphics card division (except the ones who will babysit under-warranty EVGA cards in circulation). You're not going to see EVGA-branded graphics cards any time soon.

 

[ir_cow]

I only want it to sell on Ebay for $5,000. Some collector would buy it

 

[Ruru]

Is it just me but I like "next gen graphics" more as a product name?

 

[R-T-B]

Maybe this is why they broke up?
Maybe, EVGA had their board design stood up too much from the crowd.
Maybe, Ngreedia just could not allow such a 'disgrace' of the 12VHPWR connector positioned at the rear.

They had a argument, and broke up ?

Now we know who had a better vision tho.

My EVGA 3090 ti, with a rear facing connector, would like a word with you. They made that, somehow.

 

[Crackong]

So now we know what the EVGA RX 7900XTX FTW3 will look like

EVGA deliberately said they are not making graphics card from NV nor their competitors.

Maybe they will pick it up again, but not this soon

 

[metalslaw]

The card's power connector is on the end of the card, which is what I'm after for it (or the same for a 4080) to fit in my case.

As far as I'm aware, I don't think there are any other brands with the power on the end. :/

 

[spnidel]

man I'd love all gpus to have this design - no bullshit with pretty plastic design, just three fans, a big ass heatsink, and enough venting to efficiently ventilate the thing

 

[TheDeeGee]

man I'd love all gpus to have this design - no bullshit with pretty plastic design, just three fans, a big ass heatsink, and enough venting to efficiently ventilate the thing

There will be a 4000 series Asus X Noctua as well.

 

[aktpu]

Giving these to youtubers was a nice last FU to nvidia

 

[RH92]

EVGA showing us what we are missing out on because of Nvidia.

Cut that fanboy nonsense, if EVGA decided to go out of GPU business it is not because of NVIDIA but because of their poor business choices.

EVGA has made a name in the GPU market because of their RMA service but outside of that EVGA has been full of controversies even in their prime time both on hardware side of things and business side of things ( shafting regularly European customers on pricing and availability , multiple hardware failures , the whole 3090Ti debacle were they used JayzTwoCents to influence customers buying before they massive cut the price , just to name few recent ).

If NVIDIA was the one to blame then :

A) You would see major partners such as MSI or ASUS who have much more volume and diversified business compared to EVGA ( and therefore can afford to drop NVIDIA ) also quit the boat , which is not the case .
B) You would see EVGA immediatly partnering with AMD or Intel instead of quiting GPU market altogether which again is not the case .

So yeah at some point people got to put 1 and 1 together ....

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Evga prior 30 series ftw3's have had plenty of issues, rma o-plenty that's got to hurt the bottom line.
Glad I skipped 20 and 30 and even more glad I'm skipping this 40 series 12-16 power plug nonsense too

 

[medi01]

Maybe this is why they broke up?

if EVGA decided to go out of GPU business it is not because of NVIDIA

GPU was 80% of EVGA revenue, but not even half of their income.
Tells you a lot what being NV partner means.

Literal example of abusive behaviour by a company dominating a market.

 

[ThrashZone]

GPU was 80% of EVGA revenue, but not even half of their income.
Tells you a lot what being NV partner means.

Literal example of abusive behaviour by a company dominating a market.

Hi,
Yep insult to injury.

 

[HairyLobsters]

I don't like that it lights up on the part saying "next gen graphics" seems a bit of a weird design choice to me. I wish companies would be more brave and actually do artistic designs for that section, instead of just using their name, etc.

People say well what about brand advertising, I mean come on, 99% of people will never see your pc case window... and also artistic designs can sometimes get a brand thing going on too.

It says Next Gen Graphics because they lost their licensing with Nvidia and can't display the 4090 name.