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• Scott_T - Friday, July 26, 2024 - link

  passive as long as you dont count all the fans a server has pushing air through them.

• Oxford Guy - Friday, July 26, 2024 - link

  Exactly. Calling this passive in a bit of a stretch.

• ballsystemlord - Friday, July 26, 2024 - link

  I agree. These are passive in name only.

• Khanan - Saturday, July 27, 2024 - link

  Huge blunder by the Author.

• PeachNCream - Saturday, July 27, 2024 - link

  You must be new here. Welcome to Anandtech Pipeline News!
  
  Joking aside, it's clearly stated in the article text that the card requires a server's airflow and though the title is misleading and a structured to act as clickbait, the body is relatively well-written for once.

• Ryan Smith - Saturday, July 27, 2024 - link

  The author did nothing wrong.
  
  The industry nomenclature for a card/accelerator without a fan to create its own airflow (i.e. active) is that it's a passive card.
  
  It's not a particularly good definition, since it overlaps with convection-cooled cards, but it is what it is.

• Oxford Guy - Saturday, July 27, 2024 - link

  Industry standards are malleable, as with how Samsung chose to (deceptively) market TLC and QLC products as 'MLC.'
  
  That's an example of terminology being abused as a regression from the preceding norm. Terminology that conflates convention-based cooling with extreme-noise server room airflow is an example of poor terminology in need of a change. How many things in tech have a larger conceptual gap than passive cooling versus server room fan-based cooling?
  
  It's over the top to chastise the author for a 'huge blunder' but it's also overstatement to say that there's nothing wrong in using terminology that is known to be misleading simply because it is currently popular.

• Khanan - Saturday, July 27, 2024 - link

  I meant the author of the source article. It’s also a joke based on BBT (Steven Hawking)