NVIDIA announced its RTX 40-series GPUs as an upgrade over the RTX 30 lineup launched in 2020. To start, the company announced only two cards in the new lineup, including the RTX 4090 and two variants of the RTX 4080. The rest of the RTX 40-series cards are expected to be launched in the coming months.
Even though the RTX 4090 is barely off the blocks, recent rumors suggest that NVIDIA could follow it up with an ultra-powerful RTX 4090 Ti that could be the company's most powerful offering. As for the regular 4090, it is already a beast of a card, featuring the AD102-300 GPU with 16384 CUDA cores and a boost clock of up to 2.52GHz. According to NVIDIA, it offers a single-precision performance of 82.6 TFLOPS, which is 2.3x more than the RTX 3090. In addition, the card comes with up to 24GB of GDDR6X memory and has a rated default TDP of 450W.
According to a video posted by the popular YouTube channel Moore's Law Is Dead, NVIDIA's rumored RTX 4090 Ti was likely to have been released as the RTX Titan Ada. However, its development was recently shelved for multiple reasons, including its voracious power requirements. The channel cites a reliable source claiming that the card has a massive TDP of 600-700W and comes with twin 16-pin power connectors. In addition, the card, which would also have the full AD102 chip rather than the reduced version found on the RTX 4090, is said to take up four slots on the motherboard. It's so large that the folks at NVIDIA would reportedly mount the motherboard on the card rather than doing it the other way around.
RTX Titan Ada Not Launching Any Time Soon
Despite the mouthwatering prospect of a top-shelf, no-holds-barred graphics card for pro gamers and enthusiasts with cash to burn, the GPU's unnatural power requirements meant that it was tripping circuit breakers and destroying power supplies. In some cases, the cards even melted themselves, meaning they were far from ready for prime time.
While the issues mentioned above are preventing NVIDIA from going ahead with the launch of the new card, the company may also be waiting for the availability of GDDR6 VRAM capable of reaching 27 Gbps before moving any further on its development. The company could also wait for GDDR7 to use with the new card. Whatever the reason for the delay, prospective buyers would be hoping that NVIDIA sorts out all niggling issues before coming out with the RTX Titan Ada.
Source: Moore's Law Is Dead/YouTube
