News Jensen signs PNY RTX 4070 Super blower card at Computex — proves Nvidia doesn't hate blower-style coolers

[Admin]

We discovered at Computex that Nvidia doesn't hate all blower-style coolers. Turns out, the company does allow its AIB Partners to make blower-style GeForce cards, but only on cards sporting a 300W TBP or lower.

Jensen signs PNY RTX 4070 Super blower card at Computex — proves Nvidia doesn't hate blower-style coolers : Read more

 

[Neilbob]

Or possibly, a 4070 because the pen would melt before it got close enough to a 4090 to write on.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

As per "TechPowerUp" website staff who also visited the booth, this isn't a real product. It's just a Prototype for now.

This model will only have a production run of 7000 units, without Jensen's signature, of course.

 

[abufrejoval]

Nvidia's CEO likes making money.

His issue isn't with blower cards, it was with market segmentation and wanting to charge more for cards that were used in a professional setup, while Nvidia benefits from a shared platform and consumer buying plenty of GPUs.

So GPUs were made so wide, no one could fit more than a single one into a commodity mainboard, while blower variants might accomodate two or four.

Now that datacenter GPUs cannot be shipped to China and perhaps more professional GPUs have RAM sourcing issues, he might have "consumer" chips piling up or he might simply want to avoid AMD or Intel grabbing market shares via customers desperate enough to fulfull their "professional" AI needs even with product from the competition. Or twenty other reasons.

In a global war for world domination battles and skirmishes still shift and a personal dislike against blowers was just a far too simplistic view by some writers, a mistake that hopefully won't get repeated.

 

[Tbonius]

Coming from a guy that used to be a big nvidia fan, the first thing I'd do is take some acetone to that signature.

 

[RandomGuy2]

This only proofs that it is easier to sign a card with a flat surface compared to one with fans

 

[bolweval]

Nvidia's CEO likes making money.

His issue isn't with blower cards, it was with market segmentation and wanting to charge more for cards that were used in a professional setup, while Nvidia benefits from a shared platform and consumer buying plenty of GPUs.

So GPUs were made so wide, no one could fit more than a single one into a commodity mainboard, while blower variants might accomodate two or four.

Now that datacenter GPUs cannot be shipped to China and perhaps more professional GPUs have RAM sourcing issues, he might have "consumer" chips piling up or he might simply want to avoid AMD or Intel grabbing market shares via customers desperate enough to fulfull their "professional" AI needs even with product from the competition. Or twenty other reasons.

In a global war for world domination battles and skirmishes still shift and a personal dislike against blowers was just a far too simplistic view by some writers, a mistake that hopefully won't get repeated.

that’s quite a speculative assertion…

 

[abufrejoval]

that’s quite a speculative assertion…

Since that could be construed as anti-competitive behaviour deemed illegal in one legislation or another, there is scant chance you'll ever get an official confirmation.

But I didn't just think this one up, it's from whispered comments by parties in the know.