Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti GPU spotted on Galax website – but don’t get your hopes up
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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Ti made a brief appearance on the Galax website, as the graphics card manufacturer made quite a mistake before quickly tearing it down.
As video cardz (opens in new tab) points out that a top banner had been published for the ‘GeForce RTX 4090 Ti HOF’ graphics card on the homepage of the Galax site, but this was a gaffe as mentioned – a wrong addition of the ‘Ti’, apparently, if clicking on the banner redirected to the RTX 4090 HOF page.
That is, of course, a graphics card that does exist – unlike the 4090 Ti – and it is a special edition of the RTX 4090 for experienced overclockers who want to break world records (the abbreviation HOF stands for ‘Hall Of Fame’ edition).
In fact, the 4090 HOF has already set records such as a 3.8 GHz overclock applied by Team OGS. The banner, now corrected, marks the global launch of the 4090 HOF, which was previously only available for sale in Asia (or shipped directly to overclockers such as OGS in Europe, in pre-release form).
Analysis: Honestly, an RTX 4090 Ti is not necessary
As VideoCardz points out, the Galax website team should probably lie in a darkroom for a while, as there have been plenty of mistakes on the site recently. Such as the RTX 4090 HOF launch material marred by a number of typos, even including spec errors. (Incidentally, that spec includes a maximum power consumption of 666W, which literally makes this a beast of a GPU).
Okay, so the obvious rumor coming out of this incident is whether there might be an RTX 4090 Ti in the wings, with Galax accidentally mentioning it because such a graphics card is on the way. Could that be true?
No, in a word. There haven’t been any leaks around an RTX 4090 Ti – save for the tiniest whisper which didn’t convince us at all – and if it was anything like close to release, we’d be seeing a whole lot more concrete spills by now.
We believe there will eventually be an RTX 4090 Ti, or it certainly is possible, but probably not for a good far from. Maybe if Nvidia fixes the power consumption issues and those melting adapters, of course – and if there’s a real need for a more powerful GPU.
Let’s face it, right now the RTX 4090 is a massively powerful graphics card that isn’t remotely challenged by AMD’s new flagship RX 7900 XTX, so what exactly would be the point of an RTX 4090 Ti in the near future? This is very much for a good way down, and Galax’s slip here is just that – a faux pas (one of many in recent times, by all accounts).