GIGABYTE RTX 4090 Goes on Sale in Hong Kong Well Ahead of Time, But it's a Paperweight Until Drivers Release

[btarunr]

At this rate, high-end GPUs of the future will ship not as add-on cards, but enclosures the size of Micro-ATX towers, with self-contained purpose-built ATX PSUs and cooling capable of dissipating 1-2 kW of thermal load. There will be an add-on card installed in your desktop that converts PCIe x16 into an x16 cable running up to this enclosure. You plug in your displays to the enclosure.

Like Jensen said, Moore's Law is dead, and so GPU power-draw will only follow an upward trend with each new generation.

 

[Hyderz]

At this rate, high-end GPUs of the future will ship not as add-on cards, but enclosures the size of Micro-ATX towers, with self-contained purpose-built ATX PSUs and cooling capable of dissipating 1-2 kW of thermal load. There will be an add-on card installed in your desktop that converts PCIe x16 into an x16 cable running up to this enclosure. You plug in your displays to the enclosure.

Like Jensen said, Moore's Law is dead, and so GPU power-draw will only follow an upward trend with each new generation.

we get that there is addition power addedand performance increase goes hand in hand but it doesn't hurt to optimize the power efficiency and heat output.
Amd now says 95c is the new normal for its 7000's series, i like the high end spectrum of the technology but i dont want to sit next to a furnace lol.
I hope the manufacturers of cooling tech comes up with more powerful cooling solution.

Before you say there is custom water cooling but ill be honest custom water cooling takes quite a bit of maintenance and not to mention overall costly to get it up and running
From adding tubing, testing for leaks etc etc

 

[Hxx]

At this rate, high-end GPUs of the future will ship not as add-on cards, but enclosures the size of Micro-ATX towers, with self-contained purpose-built ATX PSUs

i want a lian li 4090 dynamic mini itx enclosure. May require a direct connection to the electrical panel because power requirement

 

[cvaldes]

At this rate, high-end GPUs of the future will ship not as add-on cards, but enclosures the size of Micro-ATX towers, with self-contained purpose-built ATX PSUs and cooling capable of dissipating 1-2 kW of thermal load. There will be an add-on card installed in your desktop that converts PCIe x16 into an x16 cable running up to this enclosure. You plug in your displays to the enclosure.

You mean like this?

Sonnet Technologies

They've been around for years. I know Razer makes one too; there are other companies as well.

Works fairly well. I have one of the older Sonnet eGFX models housing a Radeon RX 580 card for my Mac mini 2018. I don't play games on it, it's mostly for when I dabble with video editing (DaVinci Resolve). When not needed, it's completely powered down and I use the integrated graphics in the Core i7 CPU which sips power compared to the discrete graphics card.