Thursday, July 27th 2023
NVIDIA Cancels GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, Next-Gen Flagship to Feature 512-bit Memory Bus
NVIDIA has reportedly shelved plans in the short term to release the rumored GeForce RTX 4090 Ti flagship graphics card, according to Kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks. This card had been extensively leaked over the past few months as featuring a cinder block-like 4-slot thickness, and a unique PCB that's along the plane of the motherboard, rather than perpendicular to it. From the looks of it, sales and competition in the high-end/halo segment are too slow, the current RTX 4090 remains the fastest graphics card you can buy, and the company seems unfazed by the alleged Radeon RX 7950 series, given that AMD has already maxed out the "Navi 31" silicon, and there are only so many things the red team can try, to beat the RTX 4090.
That said, the company is reportedly planning more SKUs based on the AD103 and AD106 silicon. The AD103 powers the GeForce RTX 4080, which nearly maxes it out. The AD104 has been maxed out by the RTX 4070 Ti, and there could be a gap between the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4080 that AMD could try to exploit by competitively pricing its RX 7900 series, and certain upcoming SKUs. This creates scope for new SKUs based on cut-down AD103 and the GPU's 256-bit memory bus. The AD106 is nearly maxed out with the RTX 4060 Ti, however there's still room to unlock its last remaining TPC, use faster GDDR6X memory, and attempt to slim the vast gap between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070.
In related news, Kopite7kimi also claims that NVIDIA's next-generation flagship GPU could feature a 512-bit wide memory interface, in what could be an early hint that the company is sticking with GDDR6X (currently as fast as 23 Gbps), and not transitioning over to the GDDR7 standard (starts at 32 Gbps), which offers double the speeds of GDDR6.
Sources:
VideoCardz, kopite7kimi (Twitter), kopite7kimi (Twitter)
That said, the company is reportedly planning more SKUs based on the AD103 and AD106 silicon. The AD103 powers the GeForce RTX 4080, which nearly maxes it out. The AD104 has been maxed out by the RTX 4070 Ti, and there could be a gap between the RTX 4070 Ti and the RTX 4080 that AMD could try to exploit by competitively pricing its RX 7900 series, and certain upcoming SKUs. This creates scope for new SKUs based on cut-down AD103 and the GPU's 256-bit memory bus. The AD106 is nearly maxed out with the RTX 4060 Ti, however there's still room to unlock its last remaining TPC, use faster GDDR6X memory, and attempt to slim the vast gap between the RTX 4060 Ti and the RTX 4070.
75 Comments on NVIDIA Cancels GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, Next-Gen Flagship to Feature 512-bit Memory Bus
And you're all buying because there's a pick of a 4 slot nondescript piece of metal? Pffff
I bet kopite7 has bought a nice number of 4090's on you guys already
Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.
Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.
Performance estimated based on architecture, shader count and clocks.
But then, literacy has never been your strong suit.
I wonder what the power draw will be with that 512-bit bus...
Better have a fire extinguisher at the ready!
Just wait for the 5000 series.
BETTER YET: wait for games that actually justify the upgrade.
tbf, Nvidia already has an approachable stack of products. They just need to open the doors with big price
reductionscorrections and let everyone inside. The 4080 for $800, although expensive, would be an acceptable start.I can't get over the 4070 TIs price, the rest is just in the windWord of advice for the optimists: keep your resolutions small, keep your image count moderately smooth and throw epic/ultra in the bin. That will get you close to affordable.
40504060/Ti) to the other! Looks like another GTX 280. Adios My Dineros might just bring out another HD 4870 (small, but zippy), if they get their heads out of their behinds.4090 384 bit -> 5090 512 bit.
4070 192 bit -> 5070 256 bit.
Thats what we wanted anyway but not getting it until Ada-next on the same node. Since N3 is not needed for that. 512 bit means big die double the size of AD103.
The 4070 series was originally planned to be on AD103 all along and was changed to AD104 late in the game. Most likely becuase Nvidia wanted to move specs down a tier but raise prices a tier and people would gladly pay. That has backfired spectacularly, not that they give a fcuk.
Tom's Hardware is saying probably only for China though on these new cards.
So there will be no full die Ada GPU, outside of HPC/AI industrial applications? Or will Titan Ada still be released to the consumer market for big, big $$$!?
That was really only foray I had with CF though, after that I just stuck with single cards.Tree-fiddy*