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685327594 t1_itqbrhj wrote

Reply to comment by Tatatatatre in Nvidia investigating reports of RTX 4090 power cables burning or melting by JumpinKing

I saw a photo of one of these cards and assumed it was just a photoshopped meme making fun of their size. These cards are chunky as hell! It's basically to the point where the graphics card is the "main" board and everything else is just its peripherals.

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Areshian t1_itr3427 wrote

Any day now someone will release a graphic card with cpu, ram and m2 sockets in the backplate and become filthy rich

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AnimalNo5205 t1_itr7dff wrote

AMD released a (professional, non gaming) card a few years ago with M.2 slots on it for machine learning work loads and they already have RAM on them (GDDR instead of DDR but it’s not too terribly different) so really we’re just a couple CPU cores away

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RanaI_Ape t1_itsu2q7 wrote

Congratulations you've just invented the PS5.

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Areshian t1_itsv5c0 wrote

Thanks. I’ll sit here waiting for my filthy riches

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kaomer t1_itsfa16 wrote

I pointed this out when the card launched; these things are getting ridiculously big and power-thirsty, to the point where standard cases can't even fit them anymore, and they consume like 80% of the total power draw of the entire PC. Got downvoted to hell and back for it, most likely by people who will never be able to buy one because of the outrageously high price.

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685327594 t1_itsfouz wrote

Just font understand the point of owning one of these cards. Prices increase exponentially but you're getting diminishing returns.

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KarmaStrikesThrice t1_itrn1sg wrote

the board of rtx4090 is actually small, the second back fan blows air from bottom up without any board in the way, the card is literally 40% longer just because of the heatsink + it is fat as hell, hard to imagine a bigger gpu. air cooling abilities are also maxed out, I dont think future cards can go over 500W in reference designs. rtx4090 is a true beast and I wish I could have it, but $1600 for a card just to play games is ridiculous now that gpu mining is dead. A year ago rtx4090 could mine over $5-6 per day, so you could theoretically mine its value back in 12-14 months depending on electricity prices,but today there is no way to recuperate the purchase price back. But if I ever have like $3000-5000 spare extra money, I might might finally build a water cooled rtx4090 maxine with 16-core ryzen, 64GB ram and 2x2tb gen4 nvme in raid0.

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