While many were expecting NVIDIA to bring the flagship RTX 4090 Ti or the so-called Ada Lovelace Titan, rumors are that it has been listed by NVIDIA due to triggering circuit breakers and occasionally melting the power connector due to possible overheating. It was also previously announced that it was expected to be one of the first cards to feature GDDR7 memory.
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The newly released GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card has amazed everyone with 450W thermal design power (TDP), a suggested retail price of $1600, and 24GB @ 21Gbps of GDDR6X memory.
But before the Ada Lovelace flagship with 48GB @ 24Gbps memory and 900W TGP power consumption, we heard more rumors.
The RTX 4090 has not yet used the “full blood version” AD102 GPU core (picture via MLID)
According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, although the legendary “Ada Lovelace Titan” using the full-blooded AD102 GPU core does not have an exaggerated 800-1000W TGP power consumption, it still reaches about 600-700W in the NVIDIA test.
In order to cope with such high power consumption, the official use of dual 16-pin 12VHPWR external power supply connector. In addition, because the overall shape of the graphics card is too large (four-slot thick radiator), it often looks like “the motherboard is plugged into the graphics card”.
Embarrassingly, because the “Ada Lovelace Titan” is too hard, it is reported that it is likely to be unbearable by the power supply (PSU), causing problems such as power tripping, PSU damage, and terminal melting, so it has been temporarily put on hold by NVIDIA.
Titan data map
Of course, we still can’t rule out the possibility that Nvidia will release a new “Ada Lovelace Titan” in the future. The company may be waiting for the arrival of 27Gbps/GDDR7 memory to boost data throughput without significantly increasing power consumption.
Previously, the “Titan” series product line was more aimed at creators, researchers and enterprise customers, who were relatively less sensitive to power consumption and could afford higher hardware premiums.
Finally, there is other news that the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT high-end graphics card can take on Nvidia and has dropped below $700
