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NVIDIA to release a triple-fan Founders Edition card

Today we don’t even have a date for the presentation of future NVIDIA graphics cards, some say some dates and others say others. The little we know is that the only thing they have finished is the chip and that they are currently creating the rest of the different standard models of the graphics card. The last thing that has transpired? One of the Founders Edition of the RTX 40 will have triple fans. Which until now has been unprecedented in the models sold directly by the company.

The graphics cards are going to increase their energy consumption, this today should not cause you any surprise since there is the new 12+4-pin PCIe connector with the capacity to supply up to 600 W of power. If we add to this that one of the reference models uses not one, but two of these connectors. So, the following question comes to mind: how do you intend to refrigerate them? So far, the RTX 3090 Ti with a consumption close to 500 W has not required a change in design, however, with the promise of graphics for gaming with more than half a kilowatt of consumption, it is necessary to adopt new approaches.

Will we see an RTX 40 Founders Edition with triple fans?

For now, only one of NVIDIA’s next-generation graphics chips, the AD102, will be designed to require the new connector. Which literally doubles the power they use compared to current graphics cards. If we discount, of course, the RTX 3090 Ti. We must start from the basis that the increase in energy consumption also means a greater amount of heat released. This means that the fans have to move a much larger airflow.

Founders Edition Triple Fan

So it is necessary to completely change the cooling system and, therefore, the configuration of the fans.

  • Place larger fans, which increases the noise generated by the graphics card when it is running at near maximum performance ratios.
  • Running the fans at a higher speed, but without adding an additional one, which also generates a lot of noise.
  • Add additional fans, which adds the air flow to the existing ones. Being the most elegant solution in terms of noise pollution.

The fact that NVIDIA is considering an RTX 40 Founders Edition with triple fans should not surprise us. After all, it is a solution that most graphics card manufacturers use in many of their variants with more than satisfactory results. Although at the moment we do not know in which model we will see this solution applied, everything points to what would become the most advanced model of all.

A three-fan configuration could also mean that the graphics cards become four slots. Which means that the top model could be even bigger than the RTX 3090 and its Ti version.

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