Most of the time we see a modified component, it is usually only aesthetic, or at most with a series of modifications made to the software that it includes to make it work at a higher speed, that is, by establishing an overclock or similar. But this time, a modder wanted to take the customization of an NVIDIA GPU to another level, and he created a RTX 4090 Greata higher version of what is already the most powerful graphics card of this brand.
The versions Great of the chart of NVIDIA They represent a model with a series of features superior to those of their base models, allowing users to obtain a product with higher specifications for a price similar to that of the base versions. But this time the special version does not arrive from NVIDIA,
A Super version of NVIDIA’s most powerful graphics card
There are times when we can see how people with great technical knowledge manage to surpass what the companies that sell components offer us, and this time is one of them. And the TecLab team has managed to increase the performance of what is already one of the most powerful graphics cards on the market, the RTX 4090 of NVIDIA, which, with this modified version, manages to have 13% higher performance than the original, while running the GDDR6x memory that includes 26 Gbit/s
This increase in performance is not the only thing to highlight, and one of the things that can most attract our attention about this GPU is the fact that it does not use the PCB of the 4090, but rather that of the previous generation, since it is created from the PCB of a GALAX RTX 3090 Ti HOF OC Lab. It is clear that since the modifications are made from the PCB of a 3090 Ti, the changes at the component level are extremely important, and they are completely. modify this model to transform it into a more powerful 4090.
To do this, they replaced the GA102 “Ampere” GPU that integrates the 3090 with one that uses the 4090, the AD102-300-A1 “Ada” GPU, also modifying the memory modules to incorporate 24 Gbps GDDR6X (ZF). Obviously, after this, they made several additional modifications to make it work with the appropriate power, such as adjusting the BIOS and other components to make it act like a 4090.
Thanks to these changes, they manage to offer 13% faster performance in 8K resolution in the Unigine Superposition benchmark, thanks to the help of the change made to the GDDR6X modules, without counting the overclock. And by applying an OC at 3 GHz, the percentage of performance increase increases up to 16% in this same benchmark.
If we now take everything in the optimization field, counting all the possible adjustments that can be made on a graphics card, we see how the improvement goes from 13% to 40% in terms of graphics performance with the same 8K resolution.
