The rumor mill is spinning up again with some truly behemoth GPUs on the horizon. Nvidia is currently hoisting the fps champion’s belt over its virtual head with the RTX 4090. Now the company may take things even further with an RTX 4090 Ti and even a Titan-class GPU. It was previously rumored Nvidia had ditched the Titan version due to it being just, well, too much. Now photos have appeared showing what it could look like, and Nvidia was right; it’s a bit ridiculous. The 4090 Ti looks somewhat sane in comparison. It will allegedly have Titan-class specs, but with only 24GB of fast G6X memory.
News of Nvidia’s possible future plans comes from notorious leaker kopite7kimi for the RTX 4090 Ti. Plus, the photos of the Titan card come from the appropriately named MEGAsizedGPU. On the Ada Lovelace flagship GPU, it was previously leaked that Nvidia had come very far in developing this GPU prior to launch. It seems it wanted to have it in its back pocket in case AMD’s RDNA3 GPUs took it by surprise. Way back in May of last year, we saw part of the cooler, which bore an RTX 4090 Ti engraving on it.
(Image: Chiphell forums)
The new flagship Ada card will offer higher clocks, more CUDA cores and L2 cache, and faster memory than the current RTX 4090. CUDA count will go from 16,384 to 18,176. That’s an 11% increase over the existing GPU. Memory capacity will remain at 24GB, but Nvidia will swap out the existing 21Gb/s chips in favor of faster 24Gb/s Micron dies. L2 cache will be modestly bumped from 72MB to 90MB. Boost clocks will probably approach 3GHz or so. The leaker says these improvements nudge board power up to 600W. However, it’s unclear if that’s the absolute maximum when overclocked or not. It is not credible that these additions would add 150W to the card’s power consumption.
As far as the Titan card goes, this GPU has been discussed previously but was rumored to be cancelled. It was said at the time that it was just sucking up too much power, making it too impractical. However, new photos have emerged showing an unusual cooling design. This lends credence to the notion that Nvidia is far along in its development. However, whether it releases it is still an open question. The new photos from MEGAsizedGPU show a bracket with vertically stacked output connectors. We’ve never seen anything like it before, and it indicates it would have a novel vertical PCB.
The cooler for the Titan class is so big it has to go next go the PCB instead of being under it. (Image: @MEGAsizedGPU)
As far as specs go, nothing has changed since the last time it was leaked. It’s still being reported as an outlandish quad-slot, 800W GPU. That’s especially true since the new 16-pin ATX 3.0 power cable can only provide 600W in a single cable. We suppose Nvidia could put two of them on the GPU as shown in a previous leak. The card will sport 18,176 CUDA cores and 48GB of 24Gb/s G6X memory. This card was previously referred to as “the beast,” which is a fitting title.
It’s unclear if Nvidia will release either of these GPUs as it really has no reason to given what AMD is offering. However, we could see Nvidia launching the Titan card if only to satisfy that audience. The previous RTX Titan card is from the Turing era, so it’s quite long in the tooth. Nvidia also might be saving these huge dies for its even-pricier data center cards.
Now read:
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