Alleged images of the new NVIDIA RTX 40-series GPU heatsink have surfaced online, Retains Dual-Axial Flow-Through Design

[BiG StroOnZ]

Summary

The first spy pictures of an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090-class "Ada Lovelace" graphics card Founders Edition cooler surfaced on ChipHell forums. The cooler appears to be an evolution of the Dual-Axial Flow-Through cooling architecture NVIDIA debuted with the RTX 30-series "Ampere" Founders Edition cards.

 

 

 

 

 

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From the looks of it, the aluminum fins on the RTX 4090 Founders Edition cooler appears to have a dark-grey matte finish, which could indicate some form of ceramic surface-treatment that improves heat-dissipation; while the cooler's base making primary contact with the GPU and memory chips, appears to be a vapor-chamber plate with a nickel-plated copper surface. From the location and sizes of the thermal pads for the memory chips, we guess that the GPU is surrounded by 10 memory chips, which could indicate a 320-bit memory interface, making this card a possible successor to the original RTX 3080. The cooler itself is more than 2 slots thick, and appears to be as thick as the RTX 3090 FE cooler.

 

If these images are true, NVIDIA will keep their dual-axial fan design. The RTX 4090's heatsink has more fins than the RTX 3090 Ti's. The cooler’s base where it makes contact with the GPU and the memory looks to be upgraded to a large block. Frame pictures of the RTX 4090 were shared. The low resolution of the released pictures makes it impossible to verify whether they are genuine or Photoshopped.

 

My thoughts

The new heatsink does look quite large to be honest. Probably needed though considering the heat output of these new 40-series cards. It does look like it will be a monster sized card: 2.5-3 slots. Something to keep in mind that was mentioned by Videocardz was that two years ago a leak like this appeared on Chiphell three months ahead of the RTX 3080 announcement. Meaning, that it is very possible that even though this is a leak/rumor that it's pretty accurate and the 40-series should be on track to launch mid-July. 

 

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/294944/nvidia-rtx-4090-ada-founders-edition-cooler-spied-retains-dual-axial-flow-through-design

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/alleged-images-of-the-new-nvidia-rtx-40-gpu-heatsink-have-surface-online.html

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-cooling-heatsink-has-allegedly-been-pictured 

[Kid.Lazer]

I'm no expert, but the "4090 Ti" on the shroud looks 100% photoshopped, and poorly at that. The black surrounding the text drastically changes color just around the text? OK...

[NF-F12]

An article from Videocardz and another article quoting VIdeocardz and WCCF as the source.

 

smh

[Quackers101]

looks awfully altered images... just look around the text bruh. also ti? ti me a new rope for this "news" are going to leave us hanging. (if that wasn't awful to say?)

next up we will have coolers on either side just for the amount of heat produced by the card, with a backend heat duct heatsink to go out the PC case to not hit CPU.

also an 4090 would be expected to need more cooling than what was shown, among other things?

[Senzelian]

Why would the 4090Ti be the first card to be leaked? If anything it should've been the 4080 or 4070.

[leadeater]

RTX 4090 Ti... yea doubt that, that's a middle cycle refresh product to spur new sales.

[TVwazhere]

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[NumLock21]

Hey look, heatsink for RTX4090. Looks just like the heatstink from their past FE cards. RTX 20 and 30. Much difference, Much excitement. Much wow!

Mice from all over the world are rejoicing to this great news!

*squeek! squeek! squeek!*

 

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[Mark Kaine]

Pretty sure its fake, they tested the real card already last year proper.

 

 

[MageTank]

20 hours ago, Kid.Lazer said:

I'm no expert, but the "4090 Ti" on the shroud looks 100% photoshopped, and poorly at that. The black surrounding the text drastically changes color just around the text? OK...

It's definitely shopped. I can tell by the pixels and because I've seen a few shops in my day.