Wait until you see all the third-party designs of the RTX 4090 before making a decision. The name of the game from Galax is serious gaming.
The packaging should be the first thing that comes to mind. Exhibit A is the first one.
There's a hacker on the box. Is this a member of a hacking group? I don't know if I will lose all my data if I install this. Is my boss testing me to make sure I don't get phished? I think it gets better.
Triple 102mm fans have increased in size over the previous models. The fact that there are eight heat pipes and a large vapor chamber cooling base supports that. The 3.5 slot design means it will take up 4 slots in your system. If you want to make this card even bigger, there is an additional 102mm clip-on fan.
Galax has the ultimate tool to prevent the graphics card from sagging when it's too heavy for the slot to hold and the card is too large. Thanks to the magic of the Dark Obelisk support stick, this giant RTX 4090 can be held in place. It is not unusual to find support brackets for high-end modern graphics cards, but I have never seen one called a dark obelisk.
I think I am being too harsh on Galax, but it is not the only one. In fact, nearly every third-party card is very large, which might explain why Nvidia didn't mention its partners during the launch livestream.
In order to show off its latest card, the company attached it to a tiny board that looked like the world's smallest one.
VideoCardz claims that four mini-ITX cards could fit inside the RTX 4090 AORUS Master. It is large enough that it has an anti-sag bracket that can hold up to 11 pounds. The effect of gravity grows as more heat is dissipated by the heatsink. The special ability to impact gravity makes this graphics card a perfect fit for a brackets.
When the next-gen graphics cards are released on October 12th, there will be more than one card available. Steve Burke is the author of a great article on the ridiculousness of the RTX 4090 cards. Below, check it out.