ada lovelace ZOTAC GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card picture has been leaked

[BiG StroOnZ]

Summary

Over at Chinese Baidu forums, there is a picture showing upcoming RTX 4090 graphics card from ZOTAC. The images depict a production run of ZOTAC's RTX 4090 graphics cards, which include a full cooling and shroud overhaul for NVIDIA's next-generation graphics cards.

 

 

 

Quotes

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Gone are the typical straight, boxy lines of any high-tier GPU; ZOTAC seems to be taking a more curvaceous approach to design this time, with more organic lines enveloping a more mundane heatsink. The card features ZOTAC's IceStorm 3.0 cooling solution, which houses a triple-fan, triple-slot design that extends more than a third of its area over the PCB itself.

 

Unfortunately, there is no clear sign on the GPU section itself, or the power connectors, but there is clearly enough room to fit two 12VHPWR connectors (16-pin PCIe Gen5). What is also confirmed is the new SKU logo with NVIDIA’s updated font.

 

My thoughts

IMO, I'm really liking the new design of the card; very rounded, and smooth. The card does look quite chonky though, being a triple-slot design. What I'm not liking is the new font they are using for the SKUs ("GeForce RTX 4090"). I feel like it stands out, but not a good way. The old font was better, IMHO. I'm wondering why they are changing the font, and why they settled on this delineation. I feel like they either should had left it alone or went a different route. However, one thing is for sure, we are 8 days away from the GTC event. Therefore, I'm assuming since we are getting leaks of card pics, then it's probably okay to assume that the RTX 4090 will be one of the cards definitely being covered during the keynote. Lastly, something to keep in mind, it appears that the post where this leak originated from (Baidu) has since been deleted. 

 

Sources

https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-geforce-rtx-4090-graphics-card-has-been-leaked

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/featured-zotac-rtx-4090-graphics-card.html

https://www.techpowerup.com/298784/zotac-rtx-4090-graphics-card-pictured

[Motifator]

Zotac used to have far better looking cards from the AMP! Expreme series out of Maxwell 980 Ti era, had one of those... was my last Zotac and a truly great card. These might actually be 3 and a quarter slots, as the front end might occupy a bit more. This has been the norm so far coming from last gen, 3-slots on all top end GPUs pretty much. They really should extend the cooling vertically, not horizontally. Such as the old Kingpin card PCBs. That would make it 2 slots and just tall.

Also, these will cost several grands so... yeah. Count me uninterested.

[TVwazhere]

12 minutes ago, Motifator said:

They really should extend the cooling vertically, not horizontally. Such as the old Kingpin card PCBs. That would make it 2 slots and just tall..

Tall cards can start to cause interference with the Side panel of a lot of cases, most notably the original O11D; primarily due to the 8 pin connectors....

 

Speaking of which, I dont see the power connectors on this thing. Makes me wonder if the aftermarket boards will also adopt a 12 pin power connector like the 30 series founders edition (Likely not)

[Fasauceome]

it's giving Xbox 360 concept art

 

[Motifator]

9 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Tall cards can start to cause interference with the Side panel of a lot of cases, most notably the original O11D; primarily due to the 8 pin connectors....

 

Speaking of which, I dont see the power connectors on this thing. Makes me wonder if the aftermarket boards will also adopt a 12 pin power connector like the 30 series founders edition (Likely not)

Well you can always do something else about the power connectors, change their positioning directly to the VRMs, why not? Just with these cards, I don't see a big problem by doing so. It just makes you buy a wider case than anything. I'm running the PC-O11 air BTW.

[Alex Atkin UK]

2 minutes ago, Motifator said:

Well you can always do something else about the power connectors, change their positioning directly to the VRMs, why not? Just with these cards, I don't see a big problem by doing so. It just makes you buy a wider case than anything. I'm running the PC-O11 air BTW.

Where is the air going to go if the top is against the side panel?  Its bad enough as it is as my 3080 is blowing its hot air straight into the AMD chipset fan.

[WhitetailAni]

13 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Speaking of which, I dont see the power connectors on this thing. Makes me wonder if the aftermarket boards will also adopt a 12 pin power connector like the 30 series founders edition (Likely not)

Wonder if they'll be moved to the side of the card.

 

[MageTank]

6 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Wonder if they'll be moved to the side of the card.

 

 

With how short the PCBs look in those pictures, seems unlikely. We are likely going to see the 12VHPWR connectors (potentially a couple stacked on one another) to meet CEM5 standards. 

[jones177]

24 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Tall cards can start to cause interference with the Side panel of a lot of cases, most notably the original O11D; primarily due to the 8 pin connectors....

 

Speaking of which, I dont see the power connectors on this thing. Makes me wonder if the aftermarket boards will also adopt a 12 pin power connector like the 30 series founders edition (Likely not)

I had the tall card issue with the 3090 ti. 

I went with EVGA since their connecter is on the back so it would fit in an O11D.

 

[Motifator]

26 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Where is the air going to go if the top is against the side panel?  Its bad enough as it is as my 3080 is blowing its hot air straight into the AMD chipset fan.

Yeah I'm just saying they can also offer a tall card and a fat one, it's not undoable. So you have choices regarding both... and cards actually dissipate air to sides and bottom as well. It's not just top. If you have a case like my PC-O11 air, and it's full of fans... that's not going to be a huge issue. What's more of an issue is the power consumption of the actual card itself. You can't help but get to high temps with that thing, even when the top is wide open....

[xg32]

tall cards are no-no, i'm hoping the 24gb vram is all on the top side of the card, wonder if we'll have to get new psus, hope not.

 

gonna have to pick the case very carefully after reviews, i tried 400w vs 280w and was surprised, 450w of hot air is no joke.

[Motifator]

14 minutes ago, xg32 said:

wonder if we'll have to get new psus, hope not.

 

gonna have to pick the case very carefully after reviews, i tried 400w vs 280w and was surprised, 450w of hot air is no joke.

They have been meaning to make us go for new PSUs with the new PCI-E sig and PSUs adjusted to the more modern spike standard, as news have shown. This was detailed down couple TPU posts.

Yes, 450W of air right into the case could be an issue. I'm actually from time to time looking at AIO cooled cards from this gen...

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, Motifator said:

Well you can always do something else about the power connectors, change their positioning directly to the VRMs, why not? Just with these cards, I don't see a big problem by doing so.

Positioning has been updated before, as with the 30xx series founders editions and a couple of high end AIB's. But there's still plenty of cards like my 1080TI FTW3 that dont fit naturally or have to use low-profile adapters adapters to fit properly. Now obviously the solution would be to vertical mount but A it blocks any other PCI-E slots from being used and B:

1 hour ago, Motifator said:

 It just makes you buy a wider case than anything. I'm running the PC-O11 air BTW.

Making users modify, change or upgrade their case in 2022 when we already have such long cases to support 400mm+ GPU's (with front RADS installed in some instances) for the sake of "bigger" really isn't a great answer. Not only does that limit many usable cases currently on the market, but also forces buyers to rebuild most/all of their PC in order to upgrade one part. A lot less convenient than two screws and a push down tab to swap a GPU. 

[Motifator]

32 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Positioning has been updated before, as with the 30xx series founders editions and a couple of high end AIB's. But there's still plenty of cards like my 1080TI FTW3 that dont fit naturally or have to use low-profile adapters adapters to fit properly. Now obviously the solution would be to vertical mount but A it blocks any other PCI-E slots from being used and B:

Making users modify, change or upgrade their case in 2022 when we already have such long cases to support 400mm+ GPU's (with front RADS installed in some instances) for the sake of "bigger" really isn't a great answer. Not only does that limit many usable cases currently on the market, but also forces buyers to rebuild most/all of their PC in order to upgrade one part. A lot less convenient than two screws and a push down tab to swap a GPU. 

Yeah but I'm not suggesting all cards to be that way or the reference to be it. What I'm saying is, there SHOULD BE cards like the old Kingpins, which did have tall coolers, PCBs, and were dual slot. The advantage of this is being able to use the other slots for other stuff...

[AnonymousGuy]

I'm skeptical that every card is going to use the new 12VHPWR connector thing because there's basically no power supplies available right now that support it natively.  Maybe only 2 models I've heard of.

 

Also notice there's only 4 capacitors on the back of the die instead of 6.  Maybe they're confident they got the power spiking thing cut down?

[Quackers101]

bottom fans? nah, its all GPU

[Rivettz]

Ooo Mama! Those are NOT Small at all. They look pretty slick ngl. Im more partial to the brick-like Rectangular Prism GPU than the rounded ones but still looks great. Its a shame that you cant see the Power plugs. Im sure they're using the new 12 pin or 12+4pin connectors to power this monster. 

[Arika]

wow,those are ugly as sin.

 

also looks like they are quad-slot cards. wtf

[Motifator]

14 minutes ago, Arika S said:

wow,those are ugly as sin.

 

also looks like they are quad-slot cards. wtf

Probably three and a quarter or three and a half. There have been 4 and 4 plus slot, way uglier cards from this gen however. Namely, the infamous Aorus RTX GPUs. Reminds you of complete baked bread... at least it has 3 DP + 3 HDMI:


 

[Arika]

Just now, Motifator said:

three and a quarter or three and a half.

so basically quad-slot. it's still preventing you from using that slot regardless of whether it's a full 4 slot or 3.x

[Motifator]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

so basically quad-slot. it's still preventing you from using that slot regardless of whether it's a full 4 slot or 3.x

Not precisely true, three and a quarter means you might still be able to push whatever PCI-E add-in cards you're putting to the next slot. My GPU for example is like 2.5 but I still have an Optane PCI-E stick next to it.

[Ryuikko]

That's probably one of the worst looking cards I've ever seen, it looks like a 2 story  "modern house" 

[Quackers101]

20 minutes ago, Ryuikko said:

That's probably one of the worst looking cards I've ever seen, it looks like a 2 story  "modern house" 

One of the things to like about Intel ARC cards, they promise at least for this generation to release their own builds that are not wacky or pointless to bad gamer junk style of cards. Instead of showing the mechanical nature and metal of it all while fitting in with the rest of the build.

[Blademaster91]

This card looks so bad, also looks to be over 3 slots and longer so it would probably require a large case.

I'm not very excited about 4000 series anyway with the rumored high power consumption, and the requirement for a new PSU.

[Shzzit]

So are partner cards coming out same time as founders cards? And can anyone see any specs on that box for the 4090?