While graphics cards are becoming ever more powerful and feature-rich, they are also taking up ever more space.
Zotac is a long-standing partner of NVIDIA. As such, the company integrates the American firm's GPUs to offer us various GeForce graphics cards, and of course, Zotac couldn't do without the Ada Lovelace generation, the GeForce RTX 4000 series. Zotac was even among the first to market a GeForce RTX 4090, the model used to introduce this new generation, last October. At the time, this model was part of the "AMP" range, which brings together the manufacturer's most powerful products. The Zotac GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO features slightly higher operating frequencies than NVIDIA's reference model, and an even more impressive cooling system. Logically, the card is also bigger than the Founders Edition, at 35.5 cm long, 16.6 cm high and 7.2 cm thick.
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However, we've just learned that Zotac has discreetly distributed an even bigger card. Still designed around NVIDIA's strongest GPU, this GeForce RTX 4090 PGF - for Prime Gamer Force - bears the name of a relatively rare range from the manufacturer. The last one wasn't all that monstrous: the RTX 3090 Ti PGF was "only" 30.9 cm long. Things are very different for this new version, however. Zotac has completely redesigned the beast's cooling system, adding three 11 cm-diameter fans to the inevitable steam chamber. Together, they take up 33 cm, not to mention the space between them. In fact, the RTX 4090 PGF is no less than 38.1 cm long, 2.6 cm longer than the RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO! On the other hand, it's just a tad shorter (15.4 cm), but makes up for it by being thicker (7.4 cm), so it's hard to imagine how much it weighs!
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Naturally, such a board must be a record-breaker, given that Zotac mentions the presence of a 24+4 phase power supply stage. The manufacturer also specifies that the TDP can reach a maximum of 525 Watts before adding, however, that the card is powered by a single 16-pin 12VHPWR connector. As for frequencies, we're talking about 2,580 MHz for basic operation and a maximum of 2,625 MHz in boost mode. In boost mode, it is thus capable of reaching 45 MHz more than the RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO. An exceptional card for an exceptional price: Zotac is distributing it for 17,599 RMB, or around 2,220 euros. Why express its price in Chinese currency? Quite simply because, like the RTX 3090 Ti PGF in its day, this RTX 4090 PGF is not expected to leave China, where it is already on sale. Disappointed?
