When it becomes available in a week or two, Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti promises to compete for the finest graphics card for gaming, but this card will take a lot of power and a lot of cooling. Early images of Nvidia's partners' GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards reveal huge cooling systems that are 3.5 - 4 slots wide.

The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is said to employ a full-fledged GA102 GPU with 10,752 CUDA cores (up from 10,496 on the GeForce RTX 3090) and 24GB of GDDR6X memory operating at 21Gbps through a 384-bit interface. The device has all the potential to become the world's fastest graphics card, but this also means that it consumes a lot of power. According to reports, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti would have a suggested thermal board power (TBP) of about 450W. Nonetheless, some of Nvidia's partners may go as high as 480W (it's best not to think about how much such a board would cost, and bear in mind that Nvidia's current GeForce RTX 3090 has a power rating of 350W).

However, 450W – 480W of thermal output need adequate cooling, and air cooling complicates matters. The Nvidia GA102 is a very sophisticated GPU with 28.3 billion transistors that craves power. However, because GDDR6X memory with PAM4 encoding requires a lot of power, the card generates a lot of heat. 

In this case, relatively massive cooling systems are required. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti partners cards (including those from Colorful) have been caught on photo by VideoCardz; they are either 3.5 – 4 slots wide or hybrid liquid cooling.
A quad-slot cooling system is unquestionably impressive.

Colorful GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Features Quad-Slot Cooler