Is Nvidia planning to come up with an even faster graphics card than the Geforce RTX 4090? And what could AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT have to do with it?
Who would have thought it? So close to the turn of the year, there are once again rumours of a new monster graphics card that is even supposed to be significantly faster than the RTX 4090. For its part, the new Geforce flagship already marks the biggest leap in performance in years and leaves all other current 3D accelerators far behind. So what could be even faster? You might have guessed it already, we’re talking about a Titan card – more precisely, a potential Titan RTX.
The rumours come from the well-known leaker (Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID)). True, he’s not the first to talk about a Titan RTX, other leakers like (kopite7kimi) and even ourselves did that months ago. But MLID is bringing the high-end graphics card back into play. And he even claims to have seen a test sample already (picture further down in the text). What is this all about and how realistic is it?
“the beast”
PG137-SKU0
AD102-450-A1
18176FP32
48G 24Gbps GDDR6X
total board power ~800W– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 25, 2022
The specs of the potential Titan RTX
Let’s first take a look at what should make the potential Titan RTX different from the already very snappy RTX 4090 according to kopite7kimi – the specs:
| Model | Chip | Cores | clock rate (base/boost clock) | Memory | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada full extension | AD102 | 18.432 | up to 2,500 MHz | – | 800 Watt |
| Titan RTX | AD102-450-A1 | 18.176 | up to 2,500 MHz | 48 GB GDDR6X (24.0 Gbps) | 800 Watt |
| RTX 4090 | AD102-300-A1 | 16.384 | 2.235/2.520 MHz | 24 GB GDDR6X (21.0 Gbps) | 450 Watt |
The specs indicate, among other things, two 16-pin power connectors that are supposed to supply the graphics card with 800 watts. In addition, 48 gigabytes of GDDR6X with a speed of 24 Gbps are said to be installed on it.
How fast could a Titan RTX be?
If we take the number of processing cores as a basis and scale up one-to-one from the RTX 4090, around 10 percent more performance seems quite realistic. In the case of the full upgrade with 18,432 ALUs, it could even be 12.5 percent – assuming the same clock speed as the 4090.
This is true at least for 4K resolution, where games especially benefit from many cores. At lower resolutions, factors such as clock speed and CPU limitations play a greater role, which is why the performance gains there were probably smaller.
How realistic is a Titan RTX?
It’s impossible to say for sure, but it’s clear that Nvidia still has an ace up its sleeve with 18,432 processing cores with the full expansion of the AD102 chip. You can find the corresponding data in the table above.
So we can very well conclude that we might see an even faster model than the RTX 4090 at some point. Whether it will necessarily be a Titan RTX or even an RTX 4090 Ti, however, remains open for the time being.
MLID itself considers the release of a Titan RTX in the near future rather unlikely, even though the engineering samples are said to look quite final. After all, why would Nvidia want to cannibalise itself in the high-end sector and steal the RTX 4090’s thunder?
Whereby one could certainly argue that a Titan model would not be in direct competition with the Geforce flagship – presumably also in view of the price. The potential 48 gigabytes of VRAM alone would probably push the acquisition costs beyond 3,000 or 4,000 euros. Nevertheless, we are curious.
According to MLID, it is also conceivable that Nvidia will wait and see what AMD does with the two new Radeons and whether any driver improvements on the part of the competition threaten the loss of the performance crown.
What do you think? Will there be a Titan RTX? Or do you rather think that Nvidia will present a RTX 4090 Ti at some point? Feel free to let us know in the comments
