A rumor is currently brewing online that originated in April of this year and is now being picked up again. There is talk of a new Titan class, after all it should be about a full Lovelace configuration with specifications against which the Geforce RTX 4090, which has been circulating through the network so far, literally pales. A full Lovelace configuration (AD102) with 48 GiByte, 24 Gbit/s fast memory modules, two 16-pin connectors and a TGP of up to 900 watts would actually be a powerful piece.
According to current knowledge, a full-fat configuration could offer 144 shader clusters with 18,432 FP32 ALUs and be connected to its GDDR6X memory modules via a 384-bit bus interface. For comparison: The highly bred Geforce RTX 3090 Ti, which represents a full Ampere expansion, delivers 84 shader multi-processors and thus 10,752 FP32 ALUs, instead of allegedly 24 Gbit/s fast memory modules, 21 Gbit/s memory chips are used. The memory bandwidth of the rumored AD102 monster could therefore be 1,152 TB per second and thus another 14 percent higher than that of the Geforce RTX 3090 Ti. The typical power consumption of its Founders Edition is 450 watts.
Geforce RTX 4090, 4090 Ti and a Titan on top? Rather unrealistic at the moment
The Geforce RTX 4090 is speculated to have 128 shader clusters, 16,128 FP32 ALUs and 21 Gbit/s memory chips with a total of 24 GiBytes, which on paper is not exactly an order of magnitude behind the “Titan class” now being discussed – the presumed TGP of 450 watts should carry more weight. It would be conceivable that Nvidia would later use the full Lovelace expansion on a Geforce RTX 4090 Ti, although the rumor mill is currently assuming “only” 600 watts.
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It should be taken into account that the Geforce RTX 4090 was mentioned more frequently in the bush radio and may actually come onto the market this summer. However, it took a year and a half before a Ti variant followed the Geforce RTX 3090. Theoretically, Nvidia could let this period of time elapse before the launch of a Geforce RTX 4090 Ti, if it comes at all. According to the latest rumors, the RTX 4090 will be the first Ada card to start in August, followed by the Geforce RTX 4080 in September and the RTX 4070 in October. There was no talk of a Geforce RTX 4090 Ti recently.
There is even less information available about the speculated Titan class that is supposed to be settled again. It should also be borne in mind that leaker “kopite7kimi” himself expresses doubts. “Nobody knows if there will actually be a product. Because the AD102 test board has more than two 16-pin connectors, so anything is possible.” Ultimately, of course, it could also be a GPU for professional users, which leaker “kopite7kimi” took note of without context. In fact, the RTX A6000 already put 48 GiByte memory on the scales. The existence of the Geforce RTX 3090 Ti as a full amp version also tends to speak against a revival of the Titan. The last member of the Titan family, the RTX Titan is based on older Turing technology.
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