A few years ago, NVIDIA stopped the production of products with blower type fans with the RTX 3090. Afterwards, new blower-style coolers began to appear in the market along with mid-range NVIDIA GPUs. As you know, we gamers approach such designs cautiously due to concerns about poor cooling. The green team did not cause any problems to its partners with such designs. Now we understand better why.
Jensen signed the PNY RTX 4070 Super blower graphics card during the Computex 2024 event. We couldn’t get ahold of any specs of the PNY card, but it appears to be a traditional dual-slot GPU with a single blower-style fan on the back. “Jensen Huang was here on June 4, 2024” is written handwritten on the card.
NVIDIA is limited to its Quadro and RTX A-series professional graphics cards, which bring blower fans towards servers and pros. Over time, the company’s partners and system manufacturers realized that they could turn flagship cards into GPUs capable of professional work. As you know, standard game designs are cooled with coolers with at least two and sometimes three fans. In the designs we mentioned, the switch is made to single-fan blower type fans instead.
Blower-style coolers are the premier heatsink design in the workstation and server market. Their compact nature and ability to exhaust all hot air directly out of the rear PCIe slots makes them suitable for use in size-constrained server racks and workstation builds. This makes it the most suitable cooling solution for ± This is even more important in multi-GPU setups, where exhaust heat can interfere with another GPU’s air intake.
In fact, GeForce gaming cards and professional graphics cards use the same chip dies. Frankly, there are no big differences in performance. In the past, the only thing stopping GeForce cards from excelling as professional cards was their limited VRAM capacity. However, this changed during the RTX 3000 series era, and the RTX 3090 came with 24 GB VRAM, more than twice that of its predecessor. Thus, a solution with large VRAM was offered for both players and professionals.
By the way, let’s remind you that blower type fans are generally used in GPUs with 300W TBP or lower power. All of the company’s current GPUs in the 300W or lower category have 8 GB or 12 GB memory, with the only exception being the 16 GB RTX 4060 Ti.
