It has been an interesting weekend with rumored specs and images for what could be NVIDIA’s next round of flagship graphics cards. For some time there have been rumors about a new Titan featuring a quad-slot design with a triple fan solution, monstrous heatsink, and equally frightening TBP and now it appears that something now nicknamed “The Beast”, aka possibly the RTX Titan ADA, could be happening after all. MegaSizeGPU posted the following images at the beginning of the weekend.
RTX Titan ADA?
Well-known leaker kopite7kimi has previously posted rumored specs for a potential RTX Titan. It was said to use a PG137-SKU0/AD102-450-A1 GPU, have 18,176 CUDA cores,48 GB/24 Gbps GDDR6X memory, and up to a whopping 800 Watts of total board power which would need 2x 12VHPWR connectors. Another leaked image/rumor shows a quad slot design heatsink and it’s been claimed that this card will feature a triple fan cooling solution. At the time this heatsink was said to be NVIDIA’s 900 Watt solution which would align with the other rumors about an 800 Watt TBP card.
More GeForce RTX 4090 Ti Details
There have also been rumored specs and images of a new, but familiar, heatsink design for the follow-up to the GeForce RTX 4090. Previously, in May, images showed a bracket and what appeared to be a similar cooling solution as seen with other Ampere and ADA cards. It is now claimed that the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti will feature a PG136/139-SKU310 GPU, 18,176 CUDA Cores, 24 GB/24 Gbps GDDR6X memory, and around 600 Watts of total board power while keeping with a single 12VHPWR connector. These alleged specs align with others that had been posted by another user in October 2022 who also added that NVIDIA was already setting aside its best AD102 GPUs for the RTX 4090 Ti.
AD102 and NVIDA’s 30th Anniversary
Both of these rumored cards are said to have the same amount of CUDA cores vs. the 16,384 found on the RTX 4090 AD102. That same die has 512 (4th Gen) Tensor cores and 128 (3rd Gen) RT cores. It has not been leaked as to what a Titan/RTX 4090 Ti could have but the known full specs for the AD102 are 576 Tensor cores and 144 RT cores.
At the moment, it makes little to no sense why NVIDIA would want to release either of these potentially new flagship cards as there is literally zero competition in this market sector. However, the Titan brand has been absent since the Turing generation and it has been speculated that NVIDIA could be planning to bring it back as part of the company’s 30th-anniversary celebration in April. NVIDIA will be doing a GTC keynote in March where such an announcement could happen.