If you’ve been following news about the Ada Lovelace architecture GPU for the past year, you should have come across reports on the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti / TITAN several times. Rumors indicated that NVIDIA had prepared PCB designs and cooling solutions with a cooling capacity of 900W. However, due to various factors such as size, weight, heat generation, and power consumption, coupled with AMD not exerting significant competitive pressure, NVIDIA ultimately decided to cancel the graphics card.
Rumors of a Massive Cooling Solution
In some previous leaks, information emerged about the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti / TITAN featuring a massive heatsink module occupying four slots but lacking the PCB portion, making it an incomplete graphics card. Recently, a user showcased a relatively complete reference version of the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti / TITAN, likely belonging to a prototype design. However, this card seems to lack a PCB with a 90-degree rotation, theoretically differing from the typical vertical stacking of ordinary graphics cards, as revealed in past details.
An NVIDIA employee supposedly directly provided this graphics card to the user, but it’s difficult to believe that they would casually give away such an engineering sample. According to the labels, it is undoubtedly from NVIDIA or its assembling contractor. The user asserted that more detailed product information would be provided after some time.
Even if one acquires a complete reference version of the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti / TITAN graphics card, it is of limited use without official driver support for normal functionality. Of course, the community might offer assistance by providing operational drivers.
There have been previous rumors suggesting that the GPU powering the Ada Lovelace architecture TITAN graphics card, codenamed “the beast,” features the AD102-450-A1 GPU. It has 18176 CUDA cores, similar to the RTX 6000 Ada Generation, with a PCB design labeled PG137-SKU0. It is equipped with 48GB of GDDR6X memory at a rate of 24Gbps, two 16-pin 12VHPWR interfaces, and a total power consumption of up to 800W. In comparison, the GeForce RTX 4090Ti adopts the PG136/139-SKU310 PCB design, reducing power consumption to 600W and halving the memory capacity compared to the TITAN.
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