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Who would have thought? So shortly before the turn of the year there are rumors about a new monster graphics card, which should even be significantly faster than the RTX 4090. 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? As you may have guessed, we’re talking about a Titan card – more specifically, a potential Titan RTX.
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The rumors come from the well-known leaker Moore’s Law Is Dead (MLID). He’s not the first to talk about a Titan RTX, other leakers like that have kopite7kimi and even we ourselves months ago already did. But MLID brings the high-end graphics card back into play. And he claims to have already seen a test sample (picture below in the text). What is it all about and how realistic is it?
The specs of the potential Titan RTX
Let’s first take a look at what kopite7kimi says the possible Titan RTX should differ from the already very fast RTX 4090 – the specifications:
| model | Chip | Nuclear | Clock rate (base/boost clock) | Storage | TDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada full expansion | AD102 | 18.432 | up to 2,500MHz | – | 800 Watt |
| Titan RTX | AD102-450-A1 | 18.176 | up to 2,500MHz | 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 installed on it.
How fast could a Titan RTX be?
If we take the number of computing 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 expansion with 18,432 ALUs, it could even be 12.5 percent – based on a clock rate that remains the same as the 4090.
This applies at least to the 4K resolution, where games particularly benefit from a large number of cores. At lower resolution levels, factors such as the clock rate and CPU limitations play a greater role, which is why the performance gains were probably smaller there.
How realistic is a Titan RTX?
This is what the Titan RTX should look like. (Image source: Moore’s Law Is Dead)
It cannot be said with certainty, but it is certain that Nvidia still has an ace up its sleeve with the full development of the AD102 chip with 18,432 computing cores. You can find the relevant data in the table above.
So it’s safe to say that we may 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 remains open for the time being.
However, MLID itself considers the release of a Titan RTX to be rather unlikely, even if the engineering samples should already look quite final. Because why would Nvidia cannibalize itself in the high-end sector and want to dig the water out of the RTX 4090? You can hear more about graphics cards in the GameStar podcast with Michael Graf:
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Although one could certainly argue that a titanium model would not be in direct competition with the Geforce flagship – probably also with a view to the price. The potentially 48 gigabytes of VRAM alone would probably drive the acquisition costs into the range of 3,000 or 4,000 dollars. Nevertheless, we are curious.
According to MLID, it is also conceivable that Nvidia will first wait and see what AMD is doing with the two new Radeons and whether any driver improvements by the competition threaten the loss of the performance crown. GameStar author Alexander Köpf, however, does not see such a scenario:
What do you all mean? Will there be a Titan RTX? Or do you think that Nvidia will eventually present an RTX 4090 Ti? Write it to us in the comments!
