Has the Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti been discontinued before it was even announced?

Rumor mill: The long-running rumors that Nvidia plans to launch an enormous RTX 4090 Ti graphics card might cease after a leaker claimed it has been canceled. Assuming Nvidia actually did intend to launch a Lovelace product above the RTX 4090, killing it off at a time when even the “mid-range” playing cards break the bank was most likely a wise transfer.

Rumors of a monstrous, quad-slot RTX 4090 Ti arrived in January. The cardboard was alleged to pack 24GB of 24Gbps reminiscence and a barely cut-down model of the AD102 with 18,176 Cuda cores, 192 ROPs, 568 TMUs, a 96MB L2 cache, and a 384-bit reminiscence bus. It was additionally stated to have a TGP of 600W.

The AD102 configuration is much like the one used within the RTX 6000 Ada Technology card aimed on the skilled and enterprise market, although that $7,000+ product packs 48GB of GDDR6.

However the identical prolific leaker who revealed these specs, kopite7kimi, now says that Nvidia has determined to cancel the cardboard. Provided that the RTX 4090 carries a $1,600 price ticket, it is unlikely that many individuals would have been lining as much as buy one thing much more costly in these economically unsure occasions.

Whereas Nvidia is outwardly canceling a possible flagship card, kopite7kimi additionally states that it’s getting ready some new variants additional down the product stack. The leaker says new variations of the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 are being launched with some higher-end GPUs: a cut-down AD103 and an AD106.

The AD103, presently used within the desktop RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 cellular, might give a spec enhance to the RTX 4070, which makes use of the AD104 GPU. We might see an improve from a 192-bit bus to 256-bit, and possibly a model with 16GB of VRAM.

As for the RTX 4060, which makes use of the AD107 GPU, the brand new variant might additionally supply the next configuration utilizing the AD106, present in each the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB and 16GB.

There are a variety of unknowns right here, and even when Nvidia does use cut-down variations of extra highly effective GPUs in new card variants, it is one thing the corporate has carried out earlier than with out noticeably enhancing their efficiency.

Going again to the RTX 4090 Ti, it does look as if Nvidia goes to maintain the RTX 4090 on the prime of the patron product line – we additionally heard of a 900W Lovelace Titan being canceled final 12 months because it was melting PSUs. Group Inexperienced might at all times launch the 4090 Ti at a later date, in fact, however then the RTX 5000 playing cards are rumored to be launching subsequent 12 months with huge efficiency will increase.