https://www.techpowerup.com/310658/pny-unveils-china-exclusive-geforce-rtx-4070-graphics-card-with-lateral-blower PNY unveiled a China-exclusive GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card featuring a lateral cooling solution. The card is strictly 2 slots thick, and has some clearance behind the region with the blower, so there's breathing room for the next card. Graphics cards with lateral blowers are meant for workstations that use multiple graphics cards with implicit multi-GPU for certain productivity applications. The card uses an aluminium channel-type heatsink, with a base-plate that's either a slab of copper, or a vapor-chamber; with the channel heatsink soldered on top. A lateral blower guides air through the channels, and exhausts out the back. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector located at the top, and ticks at reference speeds of 2475 MHz boost.
I wouldn't use this for gaming.
