GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 WindForce V2 Graphics Card

The GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 WindForce V2 graphics card may not be the most premium RTX 4090 custom-design graphics card from the company, but it boasts the best power connector design. Most custom RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards have a design where the PCB is half or two-thirds the length of the card, with the remainder of the length dedicated to the cooling solution. In contrast, the RTX 4090 WindForce V2 has an extended portion of the cooler that is recessed by half, exposing the tail end of the PCB. The 16-pin 12VHPWR power input is pointed toward the tail-end, rather than toward the top of the card.

This design makes cabling very convenient, as the power cable no longer needs to bend nearly 180° as it emerges from the back of your motherboard tray. The power cable goes straight into the connector with no bending up to a roughly 8 cm length, before making a 90° turn to the back of your motherboard tray, reducing mechanical strain on the connector. Even the NVIDIA-designed adapter included with the card (the one that converts 4x 8-pin to a 12VHPWR), should look neater.

As a WindForce-series product, this card offers the lowest tier of factory overclocks by GIGABYTE. However, it still has dual-BIOS, which lets you toggle between the factory-OC and a Silent BIOS that runs the card at reference speeds, with tighter fan tuning. The unique power connector design is the selling point of this graphics card.