GALAX RTX 4090 "Ada" Custom Design Leaked

[btarunr]

Here's the first look at what is possibly a premium custom-design GeForce RTX 4090 "Ada" graphics card by GALAX, a design the company will also sell under the KFA2 brand in select markets. The 4-slot monstrosity features not just three large fans where you'd expect them, but a fourth one at the backplate, arranged in a push-pull configuration with the third fan. This fan protrudes a whole 1 slot above the backplate, and could potentially cause clearance issues with memory slots on some motherboards. The entire topside and front of the card is laced with acrylic ARGB diffusers. The card pulls power from a single 12+4 pin 12VHPWR connector.



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[Dimitriman]

Lol these designs are getting comical. Is anyone seriously considering buying a 4090? I think this project is really out of touch with 2022-2023 reality.

 

[mama]

Needs heavy cooling it seems.

 

[Flanker]

At what stage do we stop bothering to air cool these high end cards and make water cooled cards the reference? Like slap a single slot water block on them and say you gotta have a custom loop if you want to use these mofos

 

[Dirt Chip]

The time has come for a 12VHPWR 600w gpu main power plus a 6pin 75w just for the fans and light effects.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Why all those designs look like from 90ties? I have missed some trend?

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

oh wow its got the BIG.little configuration.



I mean the fans.

 

[ZetZet]

Lol these designs are getting comical. Is anyone seriously considering buying a 4090? I think this project is really out of touch with 2022-2023 reality.

People bought 2000 dollar 3090s... 4090 will be out of stock for months.

 

[Dimitriman]

oh wow its got the BIG.little configuration.



I mean the fans.

What's worse is that the cooler designs will also be used for AMD cards since it's cheaper for AIBs to make one design fits all. So even if 7900XT consumes less power it will still have these massive coolers.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

What's worse is that the cooler designs will also be used for AMD cards since it's cheaper for AIBs to make one design fits all. So even if 7900XT consumes less power it will still have these massive coolers.

I dont see the problem, its expected. Adapt or dont buy one.

People bought 2000 dollar 3090s... 4090 will be out of stock for months.

No not really.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Still rocking the 15MM thick fans that have zero pressure to push through a 3 slot heatsink, GG!

They'll never learn unless you team with Noctua it seems.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Why all those designs look like from 90ties? I have missed some trend?

idk I feel the rest of the world's design is more going back to the 80s

 

[ZetZet]

No not really.

You really believe that people won't be buying out 4090s at 1500?

 

[ZoneDymo]

People bought 2000 dollar 3090s... 4090 will be out of stock for months.

Well yeah, mostly as an investment....for mining, seeing as that is mostly over now, its hard to justify that price unless you are swimming in money which most arnt.

 

[ZetZet]

Well yeah, mostly as an investment....for mining, seeing as that is mostly over now, its hard to justify that price unless you are swimming in money which most arnt.

I don't believe that at all. It seems that people do have lots of money saved up still. Crash is coming, but it's not happened yet.

 

[1d10t]

4 slot and 1 reserved for breathing air, apart from new PSU, these one need new chassis also!

What's worse is that the cooler designs will also be used for AMD cards since it's cheaper for AIBs to make one design fits all. So even if 7900XT consumes less power it will still have these massive coolers.

Galax is nVidia exclusive partner, fortunately.

 

[Dimitriman]

4 slot and 1 reserved for breathing air, apart from new PSU, these one need new chassis also!



Galax is nVidia exclusive partner, fortunately.

Yeah, this will be a problem mostly with Gigabyte / Asus / MSI.

Sapphire is AMD exclusive so they might have more "regular" sized options.

 

[AusWolf]

At what stage do we stop bothering to air cool these high end cards and make water cooled cards the reference? Like slap a single slot water block on them and say you gotta have a custom loop if you want to use these mofos

Like the Ryzen 9 5950X that comes without a cooler and a big "liquid cooling recommended" sign on the box. It would make more sense than adding 2+ kg on that poor PCI-e slot and bracket.

 

[ZoneDymo]

I don't believe that at all. It seems that people do have lots of money saved up still. Crash is coming, but it's not happened yet.

Well either way is not really all that important I guess, what we think will happen is of no significance and hell I wonder if we will ever know about the sale amounts.
Though I would find it very interesting.

 

[ZetZet]

Well either way is not really all that important I guess, what we think will happen is of no significance and hell I wonder if we will ever know about the sale amounts.
Though I would find it very interesting.

In my opinion scalpers already figured out that PC hardware is a hot thing on release and there will be scalping. Maybe not for as long as it happened with last gen, but for the first few months I would predict that it will be hard to get a card for anywhere close to MSRP or at all.

 

[64K]

That's a big honking card but I guess it has to be for a cooler big enough to keep the 4090 cool.

 

[1234chgm]

Why all those designs look like from 90ties?

 

[jesdals]

Well a 2 fan version at only 270mm length and I am game regrets my Fractal Design Meshify build upgradeing from reference AMD 6900XT is going to be a pain or a rebuild in a new case

 

[bug]

Lol these designs are getting comical. Is anyone seriously considering buying a 4090? I think this project is really out of touch with 2022-2023 reality.

The design is ridiculous for sure. But if leaks are accurate and the 4090 can handle over 400W, it was inevitable someone would go ahead and try to harness all that power.

 

[Bwaze]

In my opinion scalpers already figured out that PC hardware is a hot thing on release and there will be scalping. Maybe not for as long as it happened with last gen, but for the first few months I would predict that it will be hard to get a card for anywhere close to MSRP or at all.

Considering that even AIB partners and stores, resellers were "scalping" (or basic supply and demand pricing by some) in the end, they could just circumvent the scalpers, "hodl" the cards and trickle them at extreme prices to those wealthy buyers.

At what stage do we stop bothering to air cool these high end cards and make water cooled cards the reference? Like slap a single slot water block on them and say you gotta have a custom loop if you want to use these mofos

Yeah, or they could sell just the cards without coolers, and we buy our own? I mean, I have a brand new 3080 triple slot cooler in a box that was used perhaps for two weeks, until the water cooling block arrived and I found the time to install it.

"Reference design" is a good idea now, most of the cards are covered now by just a single spec cooler. And non reference cards, while advertising greater overclockability, offered very little extra, considering the markup.