Saturday, January 28th 2023
NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti / RTX TITAN (Ada) Pictured, Behold the 4-slot Cinder Block
Here's the very first picture of an alleged upcoming NVIDIA flagship/halo product to be positioned above the GeForce RTX 4090. There are two distinct brand names being rumored for this product—the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, and the NVIDIA RTX TITAN (Ada). The RTX 4090 only uses 128 out of 144 (88 percent) of the streaming multiprocessors (SM) on the 4 nm "AD102" silicon, leaving NVIDIA with plenty of room to design a halo product that maxes it out. Besides maxing out the silicon, NVIDIA has the opportunity to increase the typical graphics power closer to the 600 W continuous power-delivery limit of the 16-pin ATX 12VHPWR connector; and use faster 24 Gbps-rated GDDR6X memory chips (the RTX 4090 uses 21 Gbps memory).
The card is 4 slots thick, with the rear I/O bracket covering all 4 slots. The card's display outputs are arranged along the thickness of the card, rather than along the base. The cooler is a monstrous scale-up of the Dual-Axial Flow Through cooler of the RTX 4090 Founders Edition. The card is designed such that the PCB doesn't come up perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard like any other add-on card, but rather, the PCB is parallel to the plane of the motherboard. The PCB is arranged along the thickness of the card. This has probably been done to maximize the spatial volume occupied by the cooling solution, and probably even make room for a third fan. We also predict that the PCB is split in such a way that a smaller PCB has the display I/O, and yet another PCB handles the PCI-Express slot interface. Sufficed to say, the RTX 4090 Ti / RTX TITAN will be an engineering masterpiece by NVIDIA.
Sources:
MEGAsizeGPU (Twitter), VideoCardz
The card is 4 slots thick, with the rear I/O bracket covering all 4 slots. The card's display outputs are arranged along the thickness of the card, rather than along the base. The cooler is a monstrous scale-up of the Dual-Axial Flow Through cooler of the RTX 4090 Founders Edition. The card is designed such that the PCB doesn't come up perpendicular to the plane of the motherboard like any other add-on card, but rather, the PCB is parallel to the plane of the motherboard. The PCB is arranged along the thickness of the card. This has probably been done to maximize the spatial volume occupied by the cooling solution, and probably even make room for a third fan. We also predict that the PCB is split in such a way that a smaller PCB has the display I/O, and yet another PCB handles the PCI-Express slot interface. Sufficed to say, the RTX 4090 Ti / RTX TITAN will be an engineering masterpiece by NVIDIA.
193 Comments on NVIDIA RTX 4090 Ti / RTX TITAN (Ada) Pictured, Behold the 4-slot Cinder Block
It's basicly mounting the same as a CPU tower cooler that way.I'm very interested in the how the PCI-E slot looks, that must be it's own PCB as well then.
I also wonder where the power connector's are located with the PCB being against the motherboard.
If the size of the cooler is an issue, there are waterblock options. And again, at this price, spending another $200 on a water cooling solution isnt a major issue.
Ferrari owners dont sweat the cost of gas, yadda yadda ece. The same arguments were presented 15 years ago with triple SLI setups, the first 2kW power supplies, and major water cooling setups, and the answer is the same now, its a niche market and that niche wants absolute performance, cost be damned.
4 slots is beyond arrogance.
These cards are too bulky and run hot. They should simply be 2 slots wit a liquid cooler AIO.
I look forward to such tech as it will act as a great replacement to the yesteryear technology of woman known as "biology"
The Ferrari analogy is not good at all- it is a luxury performance sports car with performance that does not decrease over time - a car that did 200mph 20 years ago, is still capable of that. A £2000+ graphics card today, will perform worse than a mid range card in two generations. It's also hard to sell a £2000 gfx card at £2000 when the mid range card costs less than half that. Ferrari performance and value does not crash as that does. Bad anaology. A luxury product's value does not noticeably decrease with time. Tech does, that's why there are only a small % of enthusiasts willing to pay for it. Of note, it's very poor taste to criticise a person for buying what they can afford. But poking fun at tech that many people see as ridiculous, or unnecessary, or whatever, is fair game in context.
It is not hatred, as you say it is.
Do "SM" bump from 128 to 144 (that's merely +12.5%), up max TDP and let those people buy yet another brick.
Sounds quite profitable.
I recall calculating, that 2080Ti even though it was single digit market share GPU, was about 10% of NV's reveue.
We aren't talking about luxury Ferrari's after all.