Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti GPU specs leaked – and it could come alongside an RTX Titan
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Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Ti, the reportedly incoming refresh of the current Lovelace flagship, has been the subject of a new leak – and this supercharged RTX 4090 could be joining a new RTX Titan.
The latest on the RTX 4090 Ti graphics card comes from well-known leaker Kopite7kimi on Twitter, as stated by video cardz (opens in new tab).
RTX 4090 TiPG136/139-SKU31018176FP3296M L224Gbps 24G GDDR6Xtotal board power ~600WJanuary 30, 2023
The leaker believes the current plan is to run the refreshed flagship GPU with 18,176 CUDA cores, along with 24GB of GDDR6X VRAM (running at 24Gbps) and a total board power consumption of around 600W. The 4090 Ti will also use the same board as the RTX 4090, which shouldn’t come as a huge surprise.
This combined with another rumor from the weekend in which a second leaker on Twitter, MEGA size GPU (opens in new tab)posted what is supposedly an image of the RTX Titan, which, if correct, will be a massive four-slot GPU pushing power consumption to 800W (using the same AD102 GPU, but doubling the RTX 4090’s video memory to 48GB, not fewer).
Analysis: Maybe a robust upgrade from the RTX 4090, but at what cost?
Note that the stated 800W for the rumored RTX Titan is the maximum board power, not the nominal TGP. Remember, the RTX 4090 has a TGP of 450W, but can be pushed further – up to 600W is the maximum power limit, at least with the Founders Edition (from Nvidia itself) and some third-party cards. So the RTX 4090 Ti will remain the same in this regard.
If there are RTX 4090 Ti and RTX Titan models, then perhaps the Titan will differentiate itself with the full core count for the AD102 chip, which is 18,432, slightly up from the rumored 18,176 CUDA cores for the 4090 Ti here; and that would make sense. Though past rumors (admittedly, from some time ago) have pegged the theoretical Titan with 18,176 cores (and we’ve heard nothing since to indicate that’s not the case).
However, in the past there seemed to have been quite a bit of confusion about where Nvidia would go with a Lovelace model sitting on top of the RTX 4090. Some time ago we heard rumors of a 4090 Ti, then that it might have been canceled, and then that it might just be an RTX Titan.
Rather than trying to decide which route to go with a top-of-the-line AD102-powered graphics card, it looks like Nvidia may now be preparing to release both an RTX 4090 Ti and and an RTX Titan. Of course, that idea requires several pinches of salt…
We’re not getting any clues as to the release time frame that Nvidia is eyeing, but that could very well be wrapped up in how threatened Team Green feels by AMD’s RDNA 3 graphics cards. And right now, Nvidia’s RTX 4090 isn’t threatened by the RX 7900 XTX, which leads RDNA 3 (and is generally more comparable to the RTX 4080 than the 4090).
How much faster will the RTX 4090 Ti be than Lovelace’s current flagship GPU? Well, the CUDA Core increase is 1,792, which isn’t huge. However, we should not forget that in addition the theoretically faster VRAM (24 Gbps according to the leaker, versus 21 Gbps for the 4090) could improve pep performance – and clock speeds can (and probably will) be slightly increased with the Ti variant .
So can we hope for a 15% performance boost with the 4090 Ti, or something in that order? Maybe, although that’s probably the best case scenario, plus the likely catch is that prices will take a bigger jump. The generally expected cost of the 4090 Ti is $2,000 (about £1,600, AU$2,800), or in other words, 25% more expensive than the RTX 4090, compared to a 15% performance boost.
In short, we expect the overall value proposition of the 4090 Ti to be slightly less than the 4090, and that really shouldn’t be a surprise given Nvidia’s shape with premium graphics cards right now.