I was sorting through some computer junk parts and it got me thinking (I know - you thought you smelled smoke ...) about the heat sinks on some of these parts. In the pic I show a couple of video cards. Top one is an ASUS with Nvidea GPU and the bottom is an unnamed card with Raden GPU. It has a heat sin that seems, shall we say, utilitarian.
The Nvidia card has a very "stylish" heat sink, seemingly done with an artistic flare to attract attention. BUT - I am not a heat sink design expert so I do not know, perhaps it was done according to sound engineering design principles. Does anyone have an opinion on why the Nvidea design is so artsy looking? Does it work better than simply having plain vertical fins like the other card has?