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The constant drip of rumors about Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 40-series GPUs has now progressed from Twitter posts to actual photos. A user on the Chiphell forums has posted snapshots of what appears to be the cooling shroud for a 40-series GPU. Though it looks quite similar to the current 30-series Founder’s Edition coolers, there’s one big difference: it’s stamped with the letters RTX 4090 Ti.

The photos appear to be from a factory where the GPUs are being manufactured, via Wccftech. In them we can see the perimeter of the GPU and its backplate. The two most unsurprising aspects of the photos is the cooler looks almost exactly like the current Founder’s Edition shroud, and it’s a thick one. In fact, it looks almost exactly like an RTX 3090 Ti. The photos are in high-resolution and allow us to see how Nvidia has modified the cooler. Previously it was reported that the RTX 4090 would have a TDP of 450W, which is exactly the same as the 3090 Ti. This would explain why the coolers look so similar, but there’s a twist: one of the pieces of metal in the photos is emblazoned with the letters RTX 4090 Ti.

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