Mysterious NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card With Dual-Slot & Blower-Type Cooler Spotted

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An NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a dual-slot form factor and a loud blower-type cooler has been spotted.

Blower-type graphics cards are not standard in the marketplace, especially for gaming. NVIDIA was one of the forerunners in the GPU market that adopted the design several years back, but the intention was to offer an efficient way to keep the graphics card cool while gaming. However, the design was quickly replaced with Axial type fans which offered far better cooling potential with lower noise output and also less noise.

Most AIBs later resorted to launching graphics cards with traditional blowert-ype coolers with fancy names such as the "Turbo" models from Gigabyte. These were designed for niche users who had a requirement to save space and incorporate multiple cards within their systems. Now, with graphics cards requiring a more advanced cooling solution due to the power and high temperatures they produce, finding an older design such as this is unusual. Still, one has been found in Asia utilizing the Gigabyte PCB.

MEGAsizeGPU first spotted the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Blower graphics card & provided images and a specification sheet offering much more detail.

Gigabyte RTX4090 Blower pic.twitter.com/b4Sj6MQT7Z

— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) February 23, 2023

Several blower-styled graphics cards were used in research and workstations as an affordable replacement for the more expensive RTX Quadro graphics cards. When NVIDIA found that enterprises and other organizations were replacing more costly offerings to consumer-grade blower-style graphics cards with the same silicon and GPU architecture, the company began to halt manufacturing these graphics cards. The company also changed the functionality of newer graphics