Nvidia's incoming RTX 5090 has once again set tongues wagging on the topic of how thin the next-gen flagship could be.
VideoCardz noted that Kopite7kimi, a regular on
While you might think it's not exactly slim as such, definitely It's for a flagship GPU. The RTX 4090 takes up three or more slots, consuming enormous amounts of space within the PC case in which it is installed.
The leaker further explains that the RTX 5090 will be a dual-fan card, so we are looking at a two-slot cooler with two fans to keep the temperatures of Blackwell's flagship GPU under control.
Analysis: Efficiency in abundance
For those who follow heavyweight GPUs, this rumor may be hard to believe and of course we should be very skeptical about it (that goes for any pre-launch speculation).
However, this isn't the first time we've heard about a slimmer RTX 5090, apparently due to a very different design approach that Nvidia is taking this time with the flagship graphics card. The source of that rumor already mentioned a dual-slot cooling solution (and that 32GB of VRAM could be the memory configuration for the 5090).
As we've noted before, given that the RTX 5090 is expected to make a big jump in performance, this raises the question of how much power it will use and how good the cooling will have to be if it is going to be more compact. solution in the next generation flagship.
Kopite7kimi declined to comment on the RTX 5090's potential power usage, but does say, “I'm sure the cooling design is more efficient.” This is certainly piquing our interest, as the RTX 5090 could not only advance gaming GPU performance, but it could also do so while slimming down, a lot. This would solve one of our biggest problems with the RTX 4090: namely, being able to fit this huge object in a PC case that is not the size of an airplane hangar.
Does all this sound too good to be true? Well, to be fair, it is, but we'll have to wait and see, although we may have a longer wait than ideal, as the RTX 5080 could be the first Blackwell GPU to launch if the rumors are correct. . (That said, the RTX 5090 may not be far behind even in this eventuality.)
