In recent years, we have seen a lot of speculation ahead of the launch of new generations of graphics cards. In recent days, there has been a lot of talk about the next NVIDIA; More specifically, it was noted that theRTX 5090 They were going to be huge. Well, the heat sink of the model Founders Edition and it seems to be smaller than expected.
Specifically, the leaks showed an apparent RTX 5090 with a 4-slot PCI heatsink. This heatsink, at first, seemed intended for RTX 4090 Ti graphics cards that never came to market. It’s possible that in reality, this graphics card with a 4-slot heatsink is just a prototype.
Note that we must take all these leaks for what they are, unconfirmed information. In the past, there has been a lot of talk about the possible size of the heatsink on NVIDIA graphics cards.
It looks like the heatsink won’t be that big
First, be aware that we may not know anything about new NVIDIA graphics until September or October. It is possible that they will be presented during Computex 2024 (June 4 to 7) but it is remotely. In any case, the launch would not take place until the third quarter of the year.
The heatsink associated with the RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a 4 PCI slot design. This heatsink with triple fan design sandwiched throughout.
The rumors were debunked by “kopite7kimi”, a Twitter user famous for accurate leaks. He responded to the post from OC3D colleagues, stating that the RTX 5090 FE has a dual-slot, dual-fan design.
@OC3D No, the RTX 5090 FE has a 2-slot cooler.
May 29, 2024 • 9:02 p.m.
How important is this? Well, that gives us an idea of what a graphics card with lower consumption than expected would be like. Using a heat sink with 4 slots and 3 fans would involve very high consumption, even excessive.
It should be remembered that the RTX 4090 FE had a triple-slot heatsink design. Even designs from different assemblers have released graphics cards with heatsinks occupying four slots. These graphics cards consumed more and generated more heat than the base NVIDIA design due to factory overclocking.
Unfortunately, “kopite” did not provide further details about this graphics card. If this is confirmed, the power consumption of this graphics card would be lower than that of the previous generation. Additionally, a big increase in performance of these graphics cards is expected compared to the current RTX 40 series.
It is completely logical that these graphics cards consume less. Recently, NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell architecture for artificial intelligence. This architecture offers a strong increase in computing power with a reduction in energy consumption. It is normal that this great improvement in efficiency is transferred to the graphics card segment.
Obviously, NVIDIA hasn’t said anything about this and won’t say anything at all. The company usually goes through a lot of this stuff and follows its own roadmaps. We will have to wait until the end of summer to know the truth about this new generation of graphics cards.
