TECH NEWS – Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4000 cards (the ones released so far) have been giant, but the new top-of-the-line model could be even more potent than they are… But if the new Titan card’s looks have leaked, it applies to that.

The RTX 4090 has been on a different level, both in size, performance, and power consumption. The card has a huge performance advantage, which can only be worsened by the lousy PC ports (Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, The Last of Us: Part 1, Redfall, you name it…). The graphics card leaked last October could be a step up from that, called the RTX 4090 Ti or a new Titan model. Both of them would be based on Ada Lovelace architecture.

We’ve seen images of the unannounced card before, which suggest it would take up FOUR slots in our machine. Power consumption was rumored to be up to 900W, and the cooling solution was unique in that the PCB was on the side, not under the heatsink, so that it could be vertically positioned. In January, a product was leaked with the SKU PG137, which was already being finalized, and it was revealed that the card could have a 384-bit bus interface and 48 GB of VRAM.

The new images were published by ExperteVallah and showed the prototype alongside an RTX 3080 Ti (or RTX 3080 Founders Edition). The RTX 4090 Ti/Ada Titan is a beast, as it will take up four slots and require a 16-pin connector, so its power consumption will not be 900W, but “only” 600 at most. The PCB is missing from this version because you can’t see the connectors in the pictures (e.g., no DisplayPort to hook it to a monitor). The prototype only has the heatsink, the backplate, the cabling for the 16-pin connector, and the shroud.

Maybe it’s not the Ada Titan because those cards don’t usually have GeForce RTX branding, and the RTX 4090 text is overtly visible. Either the prototype used the same cooling solution as the base 4090 or went that route before adopting the more basic Founders Edition design. The Titan has reportedly been canceled, and in its place may come the RTX 4090 Ti with the PG136/139 PCB, with the AD102 GPU (187176 cores, 11% more than the base 4090; 96 MB L2 cache, 33% more; 24 GB GDDR6X VRAM). There will be more memory bandwidth.

Still, seeing the card makes you think of a brick…

Source: WCCFTech