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It's insane how big that is and that the 5090 is actually smaller than the 4090. Imagine designing a chip to take full advantage of that cooler! That could be insane! It's pretty RAD!
Steve walks into the meeting with nVidia thermal engineer and instead finds legal: "Thanks Steve, for flying in to return our misappropriated prototype."
prolly was scratched once they rwalized that they didn't have to go +40% performance each new gen. If they had to go from TSMC4 620mm ad102 die with ~18k cores to 820mm bl102 die with ~32k cores. this prolly would have been the "needed" 😂 cooler for like 800W +++
To be fair... I thought of this placement many times before and pretty sure many of us did? always wondered why no manufacturers ever doing this ? This is perfect Heatsink design
@@azriazwan1356 Liquid Metal isn't a clutch that redefines the law of physics. There are countless examples of people putting LM on a shitty cooler and having little improvement in temperatures.
I wonder if it could be modded to be made even shorter, if willing to undervolt. I've been wanting to make a custom SFF shroud for an Nvidia card for a few generations now.
@@azriazwan1356 its because the PCB is small enought to fit in between the 2 flow though fans. Why did yt delete my original comment saying the same thing
CES 2027 nVidia presents, the 6090Ti full tower cased GPU that you will fit your motherboard , 2 AIO 480mm, PSU and a mini ATX case for your other mini PC, now ALL IN ONE WITH, JUST ON THE NEW 6090Ti! Thank you Steve!
omg this video just helped me solve a 2 year mistery, i found a small magnetic piece in my pc, i now know nvidia used magnets on the 30 series, and it fits, thanks steve
0:38The green 💚 sticker 😅steave said don't show says. Not for sale for developers only and in some type of Chinese writing too. In case u all want to know
I think "Config 1" could be the same size of cooler, but with the usual PCB layout. So they could compare the difference in cooler-style. This size of cooler with an OC to 600 watts with a normal FE layout makes sense, to be still useable. And with this "Config 2" and these results, they could go down in size this much for the 50-series FE, while the AIBs with traditional layout are much bigger. I am happy to see this kind of creativity in engineering at Nvidia to be honest. This is a huge step forward in getting back to "normal" sized graphic cards.
WOW I can't believe one of these has finally made it out into the wild. I've seen tons of pictures of the cooler but I always wanted to know what the PCB looked like.
For the audio frequency analysis, I would really appreciate you talking about harmonics! The two low spikes are clearly a first and second harmonic, and it would be interesting to start looking at and diagnosing where each spike comes from and how theyre related!!
You know what I think. I think they exceeded their own expectations and then made a cut down version of the Cooler, eliminating the failure point of the bendy and the jank machine 90° PCIe connection. A 70°C default running temperature is acceptable, and the Standard FE Cooler is sufficient for most purposes.
What you could do: Film this as you are disassembling it so that if you forget how to put it back together, you can look at the video... Oh, wait, nevermind...
The 5090 is like a 3% performance boost (frame per watt). Nvidia has gone full intel, just pump ‘moar powwa’ into it and see what happens I presume overclocking nvids founders card will fry the damn thing
I have attached a CPU fan to every chip I could on my older systems (from 486 to Pentium III systems) - only because I know that electronics are killed faster by heat. Some of the chipsets on my older boards got hot enough to hurt if you touched them briefly, and passive cooling on my old PCI video cards just felt inadequate.
Hey Steve I just wanted to say thank you for taking us along on this exploratory work. I think most of us who tinker with tech are very familiar with the process of putting random numbers we see into a Search Engine trying to find documentation, etc. I also appreciate the 'rough cut' styling of just just hanging out with GN while you learn. Definitely feels engaging from a user standpoint. Anyway have a great 2025 errbody.
it reminds me someone had posted this as an idea to reddit for better air cooling. at the time it was unthinkable because how big the card would have to be to do it not to mention cost.
That thing looks awesome, I like the concept of turning the gpu cooler into a CPU tower style cooler, and I can see using it to simplify an airflow scheme in a tight fitting case environment.
Im a huge car guy as well as PC gaming. This is like when you see a GT3 race version of a normal road car. You can see the similarities but its a totally different way of engineering. Brilliant content team.
This design gives off so many apple vibes. Puzzle to take apart, insanely compact with a stupid amount of heat created in the smallest surface area, really unique design. If the mac studio (i think its the one with the super expensive rolly wheels) had an nvidia gpu, this would be it.
I Love seeing practical prototypes like this. Just shows a little bit of the process that goes into making products like this. Someone probably had a theoritical idea about this cooling design and then instead of simulating they decided to screw around and find out. and someone found something out and nobody knows.
I wonder if the board parallel with the motherboard is related to Nvidia's data center SXM format. Just the concept of putting the board parallel with the motherboard and that specific board to board connector is extremely familiar.
As a prototype you can really see the 5090 idea in this I guess they figured that board in the middle 2 fans, 2 slot of good enough for the wattage for the 5090 from this research. So interesting to see.
19:23 this looks like an FMC connector, fyi, often used for peripherals on FPGA cards since it is standardized, it has serdes data pins, slow data pins, etc ( correct me if anything is misleading don't wanna spill garbage), but it looks like one
PCB layout is natural development as response to how thick GPu are now days, although I thought that video I/O and power section would be on separate PCBs perpendicular to the core.
See, every now and then we see such a masterpiece, a unicorn that will never exist again. It's such a blueball to everyone. It only shows what's possible under air, and the answer is - A LOT.
Steve gets a spanner & a hammer out when tools are needed, DerBauer reaches for his Dremel!!! I am sure there would be a few extra pieces to reassemble if Roman had the GPU in his hands for this task 😂
The engineering implications here, with the density... If they can make this to be this dense. nVidia's datacenter stuff is gonna be wild. I can just see an entire rack of these without any fans on the individual units, all flow-through, with some giant shroud covering the whole rack of cards and using push-pull on the ends, flowing through the whole stack.
First 4090 where i'd actually say the thing is worth it's money. Even if it's just the cooler ;) Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to you trying to dismantle a 5090 founders.
We should be talking to a thermal engineer later today! Hoping to get some more engineering explanations! Not sure when the video will go up yet, but not too long from now.
Find our RTX 50 coverage here: ruclips.net/video/dQ8gSV_KyDw/видео.html
Get the LIMITED 2024 Disappointment Shirt in Cotton: store.gamersnexus.net/products/disappointment-pc-2024-oxidized-design-cotton
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It's insane how big that is and that the 5090 is actually smaller than the 4090. Imagine designing a chip to take full advantage of that cooler! That could be insane! It's pretty RAD!
11:49 we need a cartoon version of this on a tshirt 🛠️
@@zivzulander So add Steve with tools in the background of the Disappointment T shirt? 😂
Steve walks into the meeting with nVidia thermal engineer and instead finds legal: "Thanks Steve, for flying in to return our misappropriated prototype."
prolly was scratched once they rwalized that they didn't have to go +40% performance each new gen.
If they had to go from TSMC4 620mm ad102 die with ~18k cores to 820mm bl102 die with ~32k cores. this prolly would have been the "needed" 😂 cooler for like 800W +++
This is what we thought the 5090 cooler would look like. Nvidia must've sacrificed some poor engineers soul to avert this.
I was expecting them to show this on stage, but nope, something half the thickness!
Lol 🤣😂😂
Just you wait, they're gonna release this as the 50100 Ti SUPER X
I was expecting the 5090 to be this huge aswell 🤣 so glad it's not
@Junaid_Ellam Only the FE isn't go look at all the partner GPUs they're massive
That's one of the coolest PCB placements I've seen
It is THE coolest I've ever seen! Agreed!
@@GamersNexus Watch out. For the next iteration, NVIDIA might hide a little bit of C4/Semtex with a tripwire inside of the GPU.
Give that pwb engineer a raise!
@@N1c0T1n3__Underrated comment
To be fair... I thought of this placement many times before and pretty sure many of us did? always wondered why no manufacturers ever doing this ? This is perfect Heatsink design
I love how Steve keeps accidentally showing the sticker before catching himself
It's our particular brand of light irreverence!
@GamersNexus It's why we all come here!
I wish Steve would hold me like he held that GPU cooler.
🤣🤣😂😂
Roughly? 🤣
Like he might forget where you need to be screwed?
You sick sob
Amazing!
I'm looking forward to the 50 series FE teardown. The fact the 5090 is dual slot... should be interesting.
Its uses liquid metal TIM..nothing unusual...and thts why its much slimmer.
@@azriazwan1356 Liquid Metal isn't a clutch that redefines the law of physics. There are countless examples of people putting LM on a shitty cooler and having little improvement in temperatures.
I wonder if it could be modded to be made even shorter, if willing to undervolt. I've been wanting to make a custom SFF shroud for an Nvidia card for a few generations now.
The PCB is also real tiny to fit between 2 flow through fans.@@azriazwan1356
@@azriazwan1356 its because the PCB is small enought to fit in between the 2 flow though fans.
Why did yt delete my original comment saying the same thing
"As you can't see, we're currently looking at the air density gradient" while pointing to the thing is funny
“What is your target slot footprint?”
Nvidia: “Yes”
HAHAH ReAL
All the slots
Don't show the sticker!
*proceeds to show the sticker on a B-roll in high resolution*😂
That PCB orientation could be a game changer for SFF PCs if it ever comes out to lower tier GPUs and on some low profile GPUs. Very cool!
Yeah it's called a laptop
@@baNdipaNda666lmao you are actually restarted
CES 2027 nVidia presents, the 6090Ti full tower cased GPU that you will fit your motherboard , 2 AIO 480mm, PSU and a mini ATX case for your other mini PC, now ALL IN ONE WITH, JUST ON THE NEW 6090Ti!
Thank you Steve!
still 24GB of VRAM and 128 bus
omg this video just helped me solve a 2 year mistery, i found a small magnetic piece in my pc, i now know nvidia used magnets on the 30 series, and it fits, thanks steve
*CLUNK* sound ensues after magnet snaps onto some unreachable part back in the case, forcing you to tear it down completely to retrieve it
"Don't show that side", the new "Thanks Steve".
I hope you were able to have fun with this amid all of the more serious stories you've had to cover recently!
This was awesome!
@@GamersNexusAlso, nice to see a fellow Xperia 1 user
@@sethmoyer Sony underrated for sure, very nice devices
A couple seconds in and cool gpu immediately
Super cool! Literally!
0:38The green 💚 sticker 😅steave said don't show says. Not for sale for developers only and in some type of Chinese writing too. In case u all want to know
You guys are on a roll! Very entertaining to watch.
Thank you! Was super fun to work on.
You can always tell when Steve is excited about some tech when he throws every single test they have ever done at something.
Wow, I was NOT expecting the PCB to be placed there!
Thank you for teaching us how to disassemble this card Steve! I am sure it will be of use to a bunch of people
I think "Config 1" could be the same size of cooler, but with the usual PCB layout. So they could compare the difference in cooler-style. This size of cooler with an OC to 600 watts with a normal FE layout makes sense, to be still useable. And with this "Config 2" and these results, they could go down in size this much for the 50-series FE, while the AIBs with traditional layout are much bigger. I am happy to see this kind of creativity in engineering at Nvidia to be honest. This is a huge step forward in getting back to "normal" sized graphic cards.
WOW
I can't believe one of these has finally made it out into the wild. I've seen tons of pictures of the cooler but I always wanted to know what the PCB looked like.
For the audio frequency analysis, I would really appreciate you talking about harmonics! The two low spikes are clearly a first and second harmonic, and it would be interesting to start looking at and diagnosing where each spike comes from and how theyre related!!
You know what I think. I think they exceeded their own expectations and then made a cut down version of the Cooler, eliminating the failure point of the bendy and the jank machine 90° PCIe connection.
A 70°C default running temperature is acceptable, and the Standard FE Cooler is sufficient for most purposes.
Every time Steve makes a PR team nervous, an angel gets it's wings.
its *
it's is ONLY a contraction of the 2 words 'it is'. Gave you a +1 anyway though, because you are correct about the result of nervous PR teams.
Four slots, that's a thicc heatsink 😳
That is HUGE! Oh my God!
looks bigger then that
"The greater the thiccness, the greater the force of attraction" -Newton, maybe
What you could do: Film this as you are disassembling it so that if you forget how to put it back together, you can look at the video... Oh, wait, nevermind...
When you need your GPU to be bigger than your brother's whole computer.
Take a shot every time Steve says "Don't show that side"
holy cooler, 4 slots is crazy considering NVIDIA made a step backwards and did 2 with the 5090
The AIB cards look like 4090 cards. So only NVIDIA made the change.
The 5090 is like a 3% performance boost (frame per watt). Nvidia has gone full intel, just pump ‘moar powwa’ into it and see what happens
I presume overclocking nvids founders card will fry the damn thing
17:00 That "haiya" I can completely relate!
This reminds me of the old GPU mod where you stick a big CPU cooler on the GPU... it also had amazing performances!
I have attached a CPU fan to every chip I could on my older systems (from 486 to Pentium III systems) - only because I know that electronics are killed faster by heat. Some of the chipsets on my older boards got hot enough to hurt if you touched them briefly, and passive cooling on my old PCI video cards just felt inadequate.
Can't unhear that "oh, oh, what's happening?" at 8:03 sounding exactly like Rick from R&M
The fact that this weird prototype eventually turned out at GN for a full video is insane. Love it!
Nice been looking forward to this since i heard of this prototype on Reddit.
Thanks Steve
Hey Steve I just wanted to say thank you for taking us along on this exploratory work. I think most of us who tinker with tech are very familiar with the process of putting random numbers we see into a Search Engine trying to find documentation, etc. I also appreciate the 'rough cut' styling of just just hanging out with GN while you learn. Definitely feels engaging from a user standpoint. Anyway have a great 2025 errbody.
Wow, what a design... great to see these types of products. How many like these have gone unnoticed.
it reminds me someone had posted this as an idea to reddit for better air cooling. at the time it was unthinkable because how big the card would have to be to do it not to mention cost.
2:13 "As you can't see, we're currently looking at the air density gradient" Excellent.
That thing looks awesome, I like the concept of turning the gpu cooler into a CPU tower style cooler, and I can see using it to simplify an airflow scheme in a tight fitting case environment.
Get yourself a set of plastic prybars. I got one and there's no end to the uses I find for them.
Great advice.
Alright that's just comedically diabolical levels of THICC
hahaha, best descriptor
Im a huge car guy as well as PC gaming.
This is like when you see a GT3 race version of a normal road car. You can see the similarities but its a totally different way of engineering.
Brilliant content team.
that is by far and away the most involved and dangerous teardown i've ever seen
That design is awesome. unimpeded airflow is insaaaaaaaane. I would love to own a card like that.
Love your channel, GN!! I've learned so much from you! Thank you for what you do, sir!
I would like to see a custom ssf watercooled version of this. Super small, super quiet, super cooled, super Tye.
The card would be deserving of names like "Kaiju" "Frankenstein" "Monster" "Abomination"
This Titan design is more impressive and interesting than the 50 series design lol
I've been waiting for this. As amazing as all of your work is, this is what I'm really here for.
This stuff is super fun!
@@GamersNexus 90% chance this is a bot lmao
Saw it on reddit, the user supposedly found it in the trash. As if NVidia´ll dump a prototype in some random trashcan...
wat
you should make a 3d scann of the cooler so someone could theoratically turn this into a cpu cooler
This design gives off so many apple vibes. Puzzle to take apart, insanely compact with a stupid amount of heat created in the smallest surface area, really unique design. If the mac studio (i think its the one with the super expensive rolly wheels) had an nvidia gpu, this would be it.
I Love seeing practical prototypes like this. Just shows a little bit of the process that goes into making products like this. Someone probably had a theoritical idea about this cooling design and then instead of simulating they decided to screw around and find out. and someone found something out and nobody knows.
Steve's excited! 😆 Cool is Nvidia telling us something! 😉
1:23 : You, VS the guy she tells you you absolutely don't have to worry about.
you could almost fit a quarter pounder in the cooler footprint for convenient in-situ heating
This cooler is what we thought the 5090 was gonna be... still mind-blown by the fact that the 5090 is only a dual slot card.
Watch out for rogue icebergs with that thing, Captain Steve
thank you for this video. one of the most crazy design in a gpu and im glad i got to see the teardown. love the sideways card thats cool
I love these dissection videos ❤❤❤
We might as well just start making entire PC cases a cooler, and just insert the GPU PCB.
Might be tedious but could be efficient as hell. lol
Like MXM laptop cards, insert your graphics card module and your CPU/storage module into the case that is all heatsink 😂
Will be necessary for the flagship 6090 which ofcourse will have a TDP of 900 watts
Look up the Streacom DB4! They did something exactly like that except it's a passive mini ITX case!
Performed alright at 65W i believe
I wonder if the board parallel with the motherboard is related to Nvidia's data center SXM format. Just the concept of putting the board parallel with the motherboard and that specific board to board connector is extremely familiar.
19:22 I think the connector used for the 90* adapter is an FMC connector, commonly used on FPGA dev boards.
I guess after testing that prototype, you are eager to test the new tiny 5090FE cooler.
The most interesting aspect is that the last interesting aspect leads us to an amazingly interesting aspect ;)
As a prototype you can really see the 5090 idea in this
I guess they figured that board in the middle 2 fans, 2 slot of good enough for the wattage for the 5090 from this research.
So interesting to see.
19:23 this looks like an FMC connector, fyi, often used for peripherals on FPGA cards since it is standardized, it has serdes data pins, slow data pins, etc ( correct me if anything is misleading don't wanna spill garbage), but it looks like one
PCB layout is natural development as response to how thick GPu are now days, although I thought that video I/O and power section would be on separate PCBs perpendicular to the core.
pretty amazing. this is how 4 slot coolers should be designed
That PCB placement is beautiful....
Whoop Whoop! Love the ICP Reference, Steve!
So much news! You guys rock.
Really like the compact PCB and seeing if out of the cooler there's a lot of potential for what happens next
Steve : trying not to show that green sticker
Video : shows it very clearly in 0:38
I bet why this didn't release wasn't due to any technical limitation, like cooling or production, but simply because of how beefy it had to be.
"Fucking magnets, how do they work?"
Shout out to Steve for using that reference. +1 in my opinion of him as a result.
Unique GPU’s like this are pretty incredible. Wonder how long till it becomes mainstream and hope it does.
That pcie ribbon connector on the pcb looks similar to the 5090 Jenson showed at CES. I noticed that plastic connector when watching it.
Wow, what a crazy design. Love to see stuff like this
See, every now and then we see such a masterpiece, a unicorn that will never exist again. It's such a blueball to everyone.
It only shows what's possible under air, and the answer is - A LOT.
Gamers Nexus turned into a Puzzle Box channel.
Those are some crazy numbers, I am now curious as to how it will compare to the 5090. A monster 4 slot GPU with monster cooling. A great find Steve.
This is the side effect of smelling magic smoke! It opens up extreme curiosity and learning!
0:53 Just so people stop guessing: The sticker says "Not for sale, for development only", and then the same below in Japanese/Kanji.
Steve gets a spanner & a hammer out when tools are needed, DerBauer reaches for his Dremel!!! I am sure there would be a few extra pieces to reassemble if Roman had the GPU in his hands for this task 😂
The engineering implications here, with the density... If they can make this to be this dense. nVidia's datacenter stuff is gonna be wild. I can just see an entire rack of these without any fans on the individual units, all flow-through, with some giant shroud covering the whole rack of cards and using push-pull on the ends, flowing through the whole stack.
So the cooler pictures we saw months ago weren't fake? Cool! Love the idea with the rotated PCB. Seems to work! Thanks, Steve! You scoundrel you! ;D
That GPU and Power Supply side by side my God.
oh hell yeah, this is exactly what I was hoping would happen when I saw it on reddit
I really wish this had come to market. It’s just awesome
Credit where credit's due. The 5090's pcb is a engineering marvel
Somewhere, an NVidia engineer is screaming when Steve pulls out the hammer.
Thanks, Steve.
So it has the PCB of a low profile card, with a cooler the size of an entire PC.
Insane
Thank you Steve
Thank you averagesnailgodpraiser3840 for thanking Steve, everyone needs to thank Steve
Not putting a sticker over that info was a conscious decision. Don't even TRY to tell us otherwise 😂
First 4090 where i'd actually say the thing is worth it's money. Even if it's just the cooler ;) Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to you trying to dismantle a 5090 founders.
Wow this is so freaking cool! I'd do anything for such a card!
Need Lock Picking Lawyer to open the damn thing