Monday, December 19th 2022
GALAX Blurts Out GeForce RTX 4090 Ti HOF Product Branding
GALAX in its website's front-page carousel, may have inadvertently blurted out the existence of a GeForce RTX 4090 Ti "Ada" SKU in the works. This may well be a typo by the designer of its carousel graphic, but the existence of an RTX 4090 Ti SKU isn't a question of if, but when. We know from our September 2022 article that the RTX 4090 only uses 88% of the streaming multiprocessors (SM) physically present on the 4 nm AD102 silicon (that's 128 out of 144 SM, or 16,384 out of 18,432 CUDA cores), although it maxes out its 384-bit GDDR6X memory bus.
The way NVIDIA carved the RTX 4090 out of the AD102 leaves it with plenty of room to create a faster SKU that maxes out the silicon, backing it with more GPU clock speed, possibly even 23 Gbps-rated GDDR6X memory, resulting in a top-spec flagship with ≥10% higher performance than the RTX 4090, to consolidate NVIDIA's position in the high-end segment—not that it's under much of a threat from AMD right now. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX trades blows with the RTX 4080, and is barely a threat to the RTX 4090. NVIDIA would still want something to sell at $2,000 if not more, and the only way it can do so is by maxing out the AD102 and hope that enthusiasts wanting to climb performance leaderboards would want such a card.
Source:
Guru3D
The way NVIDIA carved the RTX 4090 out of the AD102 leaves it with plenty of room to create a faster SKU that maxes out the silicon, backing it with more GPU clock speed, possibly even 23 Gbps-rated GDDR6X memory, resulting in a top-spec flagship with ≥10% higher performance than the RTX 4090, to consolidate NVIDIA's position in the high-end segment—not that it's under much of a threat from AMD right now. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX trades blows with the RTX 4080, and is barely a threat to the RTX 4090. NVIDIA would still want something to sell at $2,000 if not more, and the only way it can do so is by maxing out the AD102 and hope that enthusiasts wanting to climb performance leaderboards would want such a card.
30 Comments on GALAX Blurts Out GeForce RTX 4090 Ti HOF Product Branding
It might worth doing the 4090ti at a loss (which wouldn't happen, they will profit on that quite good) only to further strengthen the "GeForce" brand as the 'no compromise, max preformance, uber quality' option.
The 3090 only replaces the Titan's price tag, they are not feature equivalent.
What's funny is that they pulled off the same trick with Pascal, but there was no manufacturing reason for it. The Titan X (Pascal) and Titan Xp being different core configs was all for segmentation, and had little or possibly nothing to do with salvaging chips (as many salvage chips went toward the 1080 Ti launch inventory).
"Milking" those is a favor to us all, poor mortal being.
Hands up if the "Ti" came to you as a surprise.
Edit: Oh, and look at the power connectors, guys! :rolleyes:
xx90 cards are strictly gmaing cards, Titan cards were for professionals and prosumers. A quick read of any Titan card page will tell you that, hence why Nvidia doesn't list Titan cards under it's gaming cards and separates them in the driver section. Gaming cards under GTX, Titan cards under Titan.
So are these really xx90s, or jacked up xx80/80Tis?
Who lost something along the way was the xx80 series, which was the single GPU champ and now is second fiddle.
The naming gave Nvidia an opportunity to shift goalposts as well as pricing. If dual die on PCB wasn't working out, why didn't they go single die for xx90 starting with GTX 700?
Is it because of the Titans - the first of which popped up 9 months after the GTX 690.
As long as it comes with that crown screen thingy its worth every bit of crazy they charge for it.
I mean it's a GPU with a crown!!! that is also a screen!!!!