For the past several years, we thought that Nvidia didn't like any blower-style graphics cards in its GeForce gaming graphics card lineup. As a result, we were stunned to see an all-new PNY RTX 4070 Super blower-style graphics card on display at Computex 2024 with Jensen Huang's (of all people) hand-written signature on the card. It turns out that Nvidia does not completely dislike blower-style cards — rather, it depends on the card's TDP.
We discovered that Nvidia does allow AIB partners to build blower-style cards, but only on one condition — for a GPU to qualify, the card needs to have a TBP of 300W or less. If a specific model exceeds the 300W TDP envelope, Nvidia will not allow that model to go on the market unless the manufacturer ditches the blower-style cooler and goes with a more traditional cooling solution.
