Nvidia RTX A4000 combines RTX 3070 Ti, blower cooler and compact circuit board

With the introduction of the previous generation of graphics cards, Nvidia pimped so-called blowercooler for the reference models of consumer graphics cards, a cooler design that with a single radial fan is not necessarily the quietest or most efficient. However, the solution can facilitate a lower temperature in the computer case, as the hot air is dumped on the outside. With the Geforce RTX 3000 series, the radiator type shines with its absence and even compact variants of the graphics cards are rare.

Now the Reddit user “snake-robot” shows that both smallness and blowercooler to the highest degree is possible with the Geforce RTX 3000 series and the graphics architecture “Ampere”. The user has got hold of the professional model RTX A4000, which shares graphics circuit with RTX 3070 Ti; a full-featured GA104 with 6,144 CUDA cores flanked by 16 GB of error-correcting GDDR6 memory. A matte slide show shows a familiar radiator design and a circuit board that ends in line with the PCI Express connection.

In addition, the graphics card occupies only one card slot in height, but the said radial fan is mounted a bit outside the short circuit board and it is thus not a format that fits extra compact systems. The fan blows air over a heat sink equipped with a heat pipe and steam chamber in direct contact with the graphics circuit, to send out the hot air through the perforated I / O plate.

With the Geforce RTX 2000 family stood blowercoolers can be found in the partner manufacturers’ range, but according to reports from Videocardz, Nvidia has banned such cooler solutions for playing cards of the latest cut. The reason is alleged to be to not damage the sale of the more expensive counterparts intended for professional use. It can also be added that the consumer cards in the upper layer require very competent coolers due to power outputs north of 300 watts, while the TBP value for RTX A4000 stays at 140 watts.

It remains to be seen whether the minimal circuit board in the future will find its way into the Geforce RTX 3000 series’ RTX 3070 Ti-type and simpler models. RTX A4000 shows that all components do not take up very much space and the circuit board has unused soldering points for mounting a power connector on the short side. An extension cable with a 6-pin PCI Express end is used in the RTX A4000 case.

Do you belong to the crowd that is looking for an extra small card, or maybe a model with a blower cooler? Tell us about your area of ​​use in the comment thread!