5-slot GPUs are here

[BFG10K]

ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick, We Go Hands-on

ASUS showed us its GeForce RTX 4080 Noctua Edition graphics card that it formally announced yesterday. To call this card thick would be an understatement, as it's possibly the first graphics card that is 5 slots thick! The card easily overshoots what constitutes 4 slots, and is technically 4.2...

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What an absolutely nasty furnace-slab, the result of vendors red-lining products from the factory to push the last 5% on benchmark graphs.

Reminds me of 40 year old video cards that were slabs too and also had trouble fitting into cases of the time.

That one flexes his case's sides just like those ridiculous firestarter 12VHPWR plugs that impede closing side panels on modern cases.

We're heading in the wrong direction, folks.

 

[KompuKare]

dGPU have "evolved" into GB: Graphic Bricks.

The don't list the full dimensions but the 3080 Noctua edition was already near 4 litres. I guess these cards are not meant for 6-10 litres SFX case then?

Certainly the wrong direction this P4-type race for the last few % regardless of efficiency.

Although totally overpriced, when undervolted such monster GB's could be super quiet. But then who spends $1.5+ on card to lower its performance by 1-5% just to be quiet.

No, the true PCMR thing would be position these monster card so that all the noise and heat goes next door to the console playing peasants!

 

[biostud]

Why doesn't some vendor make a cooling solution with air for vrm/memory equipped with a standard CPU liquid cooling mounting mechanism. Something similar to the artic accelero hybrid

 

[igor_kavinski]

Innovation has seemingly died in this space, thanks to Nvidia's dumbness. But gamers are also dumb since they don't seem to mind that all the other slots get covered up by their swanky new thicc GPU.

At least, AMD still seems to be doing sane things. There is hope yet.

 

[Shmee]

Haha, on a 4080, why? I mean, that cooler could be useful on something like a 4090 Ti in the future, I suppose, but a 4080?

 

[lopri]

I can't get over that color scheme.

 

[zinfamous]

I can't get over that color scheme.

It's Noctua, so only two things they understand:

--Gigantic brick air coolers
--Brown.

I guess the idea here is that it's much shorter in length compared to high end AIB cards so can...fit in more microATX cases, but maybe not really because it's also so thick?

 

[mikeymikec]

That one flexes his case's sides just like those ridiculous firestarter 12VHPWR plugs that impede closing side panels on modern cases.

We're heading in the wrong direction, folks.

I'm hoping this is a phase much like the Pentium 4 Prescott CPUs that went insanely hot, but given the recent AMD/Intel gens are doing the same thing, I worry that maybe it's not a phase.

 

[Mopetar]

The obesity epidemic has really gotten out of hand.

 

[NTMBK]

The PCI card format just isn't fit for purpose any more. We should have moved to GPUs on a mezannine card a long time ago, with more robust power delivery through the pins, no additional power cables, and cooling that is properly integrated with the case rather than with the card.

You could key the card format to support multiple power levels- so low power cards could fit in a high power slot, but high power cards could not fit in a low power slot. That way motherboards can be designed to hit different TDP levels, without every board needing to support 400W power delivery.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The obesity epidemic has really gotten out of hand.

QFT!

It's spilling into designs now!

 

[Dannar26]

ASUS x Noctua RTX 4080 Graphics Card is 5 Slots Thick

but why

 

[IEC]

I heard you like those cards THICC -XFX
ASUS x Noctua: Hold my beer

 

[aigomorla]

that card is thick because it uses a full size noctua fan.
So basically its a 2 slot cooler sink with a 25mm thick fan making the cooler roughly 4 slot thick, and 1 slot taking up the actual pcb.

 

[Mopetar]

I'm the not so distant future old NY apartments will be retrofitted to replace the radiators used to heat rooms in the winters with GPUs which take up slightly less space, but provide better heating.

 

[AnandThenMan]

I can't get over that color scheme.

That's the deal breaker? Not the fact it's the size of a carry-on. I agree it is fugly.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Having basked in the glory of IndustrialPPC3000 fans, I must admit that I admire Noctua brown. Too bad the card attached is so meh.

 

[CP5670]

AIOs are a better solution to this issue. The 4090 AIO cards are very small and compact compared to the air cooled ones. The MSI card I have is two slots and smaller than my last several cards, and all that heat gets dumped directly outside the case.

 

[bigboxes]

Haha, on a 4080, why? I mean, that cooler could be useful on something like a 4090 Ti in the future, I suppose, but a 4080?

I was thinking the same thing. I kept thinking that I was seeing 4090 wrong. My vision is pretty bad. Nope. 4080. I do love quiet and Noctua, though.

 

[igor_kavinski]

The MSI card I have is two slots and smaller than my last several cards, and all that heat gets dumped directly outside the case.

That should be the base configuration for 4090, considering the high MSRP. More expensive ones should have a chiller.

 

[BFG10K]

If we have 5 slots, why not 5 fans?

Maxsun's Mega Gamer GPU RTX 40 Series Sports Five Fans

Chinese board partner Maxsun announced today their new flagship product line dubbed Mega Gamer GPU (MGG) which packs five fans onto RTX 40 series GPUs. The first card to receive this new branding is NVIDIA's RTX 4070 Ti which Maxsun suggests will come with a healthy factory overclock, but they...

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This is literally an air conditioning unit sitting in a PEG slot.

 

[biostud]

High end GPU should come with a hybrid design, where a couple of fans/cooler should cool vrm/ram and standard CPU mounting holes for a CLC to cool the GPU.

 

[mikeymikec]

I'm surprised a card as big as that doesn't have some kind of bracket to keep it level at the far end. My R9 380X is tiny in comparison yet in the photos I've recently taken there does appear to be a bit of a lean.

 

[gorobei]

I can't get over that color scheme.

It's Noctua, so only two things they understand:

--Gigantic brick air coolers
--Brown.

I guess the idea here is that it's much shorter in length compared to high end AIB cards so can...fit in more microATX cases, but maybe not really because it's also so thick?

you know the noctua chromax line has been out for a while.

at 5 slots, nvidia has officially crossed over into 'going to break the pci slot on the motherboard' territory. time to start over with the atx format from scratch

 

[biostud]

you know the noctua chromax line has been out for a while.

at 5 slots, nvidia has officially crossed over into 'going to break the pci slot on the motherboard' territory. time to start over with the atx format from scratch

Personally I don't understand why people are obsessed with AIO on the CPU, but not on the GPU. The modern high end GPU needs it far more than the CPU.