Last updated on December 8th, 2022 at 02:51 pm
Manufacturers have stopped production of GeForce RTX 3090 with “turbines”
Last month, it was reported that Gigabyte had discontinued the GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo graphics accelerator equipped with a tangential fan cooling system, popularly called a “turbine.” Readers of the VideoCardz resource noticed that RTX 3090 video cards with similar cooling systems disappeared from other manufacturers.
The official reason for the termination of production of such video cards is not named. However, VideoCardz suggests that the recent announcement of NVIDIA CMP HX video cards for mining based on special Crypto Mining Processors could indirectly affect this. The manufacturers through which these video cards will be distributed may be planning to use cooling systems with a tangential fan in them.
Five versions of the GeForce RTX 3090 equipped with a “turbine” have been presented to date. The resource indicates that the pages with their description have disappeared from the official websites of the companies. Simultaneously, the younger models GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 with a “turbine” type cooling system are still in their assortment.
The source indicates that the Emtek GeForce RTX 3090 Blower Edition model announced at the beginning of last month, equipped with a unique printed circuit board, did not actually appear on sale. Moreover, it was not even listed on the official website of the manufacturer. Photos of the video card were found on the website of one of the South Korean retailers.
ASUS has removed the page with the ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 Turbo model from its website. The younger models GeForce RTX 3080 Turbo and GeForce RTX 3070 Turbo are still in the manufacturer’s assortment.
Galax has confirmed that the GeForce RTX 3090 Classic has been discontinued two months after its announcement. Interestingly, the manufacturer also stopped the production of the GeForce RTX 3080 Classic model.
The page with the model Gigabyte GeForce 3090 Turbo also disappeared from the company’s website.
The MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Aero was unveiled last month. The card received a cooling system that resembles the reference video card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480, released in 2010. This version of the GeForce RTX 3090 also disappeared from the manufacturer’s website.
