Much to the chagrin of Nvidia and its CEO, one of its AIB partners, Manli, built the world’s first GeForce RTX 4090 blower-style graphics card without any repercussions.As Tweet by Zed_Wang (opens in new tab)Manli’s GeForce RTX 4090 marks the return of its flagship GeForce graphics card with a blower-style cooling system.
The graphics card’s unique cooling solution is especially geared towards workstation systems, allowing multiple GPUs to be stacked in one tower for greater computing power. As a result, when Manli’s RTX 4090 graphics card hits the market, we can expect it to start competing directly with Nvidia’s more expensive Quadro GPUs. His new RTX 4090 blower is amazing and I didn’t expect Nvidia to allow it.In case you don’t remember, the GeForce RTX 3090 shipped with a blower design before, but the GeForce RTX 3090’s blower card (opens in new tab) It disappeared from the market like magic.
These blower style cards were big hits in the workstation market before they were discontinued. OEMs and major system builders such as Puget Systems were building many PC setups using RTX 3090 graphics cards via Quadro GPUs. Additionally, the move to the RTX 3090 has significantly improved the price-performance ratio of workstation systems, with the RTX 3090 being as powerful as some of his Quadro GPUs that cost thousands of dollars more.
Technically, nothing prevents workstations from using two RTX 3090s in standard cooler designs. However, the heat generated by the two cards is so great that it can overwhelm your computer chassis cooling solution. Not to mention the additional space requirements required for triple-slot GPUs. Blower-based graphics cards get around the problem by expelling hot air out the back of the case by blocking all sides of the cooler except the back. ‘s high wattage GPUs can be placed in large or small enclosures.
Only time will tell if Manli’s GeForce RTX 4090 blower card suffers the same fate as the RTX 3090 blower style GPU.
The Manli RTX 4090 blower style card is a very impressive GPU in its own right. Manli sidestepped the airflow limitations of blower-style cooling designs and shrunk this particular RTX 4090 to his two PCIe slot width. It takes up less PCIe slots than the Founders Edition, making it the thinnest RTX 4090 to date, except for his AIO water-cooled version of the RTX 4090.
This makes Manli’s RTX 4090 blower very well suited for multi-GPU scenarios, allowing two of these GPUs to be easily mounted in a standard ATX tower. In fact, with proper PCIe spacing, you can fit 3 or 4 of these GPUs into a full tower chassis.
Due to the compact nature of the cooler design, we don’t expect this GPU to run at peak boost frequencies. Still, if he can cram multiple RTX 4090s into one machine, or one RTX 4090 into a chassis that only supports dual-slot cards, the sacrifice is worth it.
