Rumor machine: In terms of performance, size, and price, the RTX 4090 is a beast of a graphics card, but it looks like an even more monstrous product is coming to Ada Lovelace’s lineup. Alleged footage of what is likely a Titan RTX Ada, though it could being an RTX 4090 Ti, leaked, showing off its massive four-slot design and four display connectors on I/O that are aligned vertically rather than the usual horizontal layout.
Assuming this is the real deal, the Hardware leaker photos MEGAsizeGPU confirm that the most powerful Lovelace card will use an Nvidia design quite different from what we’ve seen before. They suggest the PCB is vertical, meaning it will be parallel to the motherboard when the board is inserted.
We can also see an exhaust grille so large it spans two PCI slots, which could have led Nvidia to stack the three DisplayPorts and one HDMI port vertically instead of horizontally.
There has been some debate over whether this new card will be an RTX 4090 Ti or a Titan RTX Ada. Given the gold theme, it looks like we’re looking at the latter. There are more clues on the I/O bracket sticker; PCB number PG137 was revealed by kopite7kimi in July last year in a leak of a Lovelace flagship board with 48GB of GDDR6X, 18,176 CUDA cores and 800W TDP, earning it the nickname appropriated from “the beast”. For reference, the RTX 4090’s board number is PG139 and it has 16,384 CUDA cores.
“the beast”
PG137-SKU0
AD102-450-A1
18176FP32
48G 24Gbps GDDR6X
total board power ~800W– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 25, 2022
Elsewhere, the Titan is said to be the first to feature a triple-fan reference cooler from Nvidia and will draw its 800W TBP via two 16-pin connectors, which seems worrying given how much some people have struggled with it. RTX 4090 adapters.
Besides the gold theme, it’s the rumored 48GB of 24Gbps GDDR6X memory that suggests this card is a Titan RTX Ada, as the brand has long been aimed primarily at creators and the scientific community; the RTX 6000 Ada also has 48GB of memory, although a slower 20Gbps GDDR6. More evidence points to Micron announcing last year that it was producing 24Gbps modules, which have never been used in an Nvidia card.
There were rumors (emphasis on that word) in October that Nvidia canceled the Titan RTX Ada because it tripped circuit breakers, melted power supplies, and sometimes dissolved completely. It may be that the company has now fixed these issues and the card is well on its way to becoming a purchasable, and undoubtedly very expensive, commodity.
