Should we believe it? On the homepage of its official website, Galax, NVIDIA’s partner graphics card manufacturer, displayed a certain GeForce RTX 4090 Ti under the HOF banner a few hours ago. A model that NVIDIA has yet to formalize.
It was on the front page, displayed directly on the carousel of the Hong Kong manufacturer. Quickly corrected, the mention of an RTX 4090 Ti still made a remarkable appearance a few hours ago on the official Galax website. Simple shell or premature display of a card not yet official at NVIDIA? The second track seems to be the right one, because the existence of the model in question is no longer really in doubt at this stage.
A stealthy RTX 4090 Ti at Galax…
As TechPowerUp pointed out in an analysis shared last September, when it launched the “classic” RTX 4090, NVIDIA’s high-end card only uses 88% of the streaming multiprocessors (SM) burned in 4 nm on its AD102 GPU chip. Thus, only 128 SM are currently operated out of the 144 present, i.e. 16,384 active CUDA cores out of 18,432 in all, underlines the specialized media.
If, on the other hand, the GDDR6X (384-bit) video memory attached to the card is used to its full capacity, it can reasonably be said that NVIDIA is keeping a good margin of maneuver to later launch a new, even more high-end reference. Understand that the RTX 4090 Ti is far from being a mirage, and one can imagine that this time it will exploit 100% of the capacities of the AD102 chip.
NVIDIA still has room for maneuver on the (very) high end
Logically, NVIDIA should also take the opportunity to increase the frequencies applied to the GPU in order to make it gain even more power. It is also not excluded that the firm adds GDDR6X RAM at 23 Gbps to top it off. We would then have a racing machine capable of eclipsing even more everything that the competition can currently offer… even if the performance gap with the RTX 4090 would not go much above 10% according to TechPowerUp’s estimates.
It remains to be seen what price would be set for such a card, knowing that the current RTX 4090 is already displayed at 1,849 euros in recommended price and that the placement of custom models is rather located around 2,100 – 2,300 euros, or even more. Potential answer in early January, after NVIDIA’s conference at CES 2023.
Source : TechPowerUp
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