Last year, the first rumors appeared that Lenovo wanted to enter the discrete graphics market – later the manufacturer discussed with AMD the possibility of creating a video card in the Legion line, but the partnership apparently did not lead to anything. Now there are only new rumors about NVIDIA – the insider said a month ago that Lenovo wants to try to conquer the market with RTX 40 series graphics cards, and this time the cooperation, apparently, has borne fruit, because photos of a Lenovo graphics card appeared on the Internet Legion GeForce RTX 4090 – apparently According to the company, the company is really ready for anything to launch.

True, I would like to immediately note that the video card is huge – at first it may even seem that this is some kind of hoax, but in fact, many RTX 40 video cards will be huge in size. And the Lenovo Legion GeForce RTX 4090 is not far behind – the video card will be 36 centimeters long, which is a lot even by the standards of the longest models from Gigabyte. Thanks to the considerable length, the manufacturer was able to place three fans at once in the active cooling system, on top of which there is a fairly simple (even ascetic) case made of gray plastic. Perhaps this is some basic model without lighting and decorative elements.

With such a length, it is not necessary to talk about the use of a video card in compact housings – it is rare to find a housing in which a video card longer than 31 centimeters will fit, and 36 centimeters will not fit even in some large models. . But that’s not the main problem – the fact is that Lenovo’s video card is also very thick. There are no exact specifications online, but the video card occupies four slots in the system – this completely closes access to all ports located under the PCI-E slot. This means that no expansion cards can be installed, for example for streaming.

However, this is not just a problem with Lenovo’s graphics cards – six months ago, insiders said that NVIDIA plans to use extremely powerful graphics chips in the RTX 4080, which will consume 450 to 650 W when overclocking. Logically, with such power consumption, the chip will generate a significant amount of heat, which must be cooled – for this, large radiators are used, which take up additional slots in the system. And given that the chassis of Lenovo’s graphics card is very similar to the base OEM variant, that’s going to be a lot of big cards.