With the general increase in performance and the impressive value addition for professional content creators within the Lovelace generation, along with the terrible prices – it seems that the chip developer will forgo the launch of a new Titan model and will settle for a higher monster GeForce model
The RTX 4090 is already here, even with a few quick and lucky users in Israel, and it successfully demonstrates the great technological performance leap (perhaps even enormous, if you will) that NVIDIA reached thanks to the new Ada architecture and TSMC’s improved manufacturing process – which manages to embarrass not only The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, which until recently was the most powerful gaming product in the world, but also most of the company’s Quadro RTX models based on the Ampere architecture.
With the juicy intergenerational performance jump and inflated prices of between $1,600 and $2,000, it seems that NVIDIA no longer sees the need to use the Titan brand, which was intended to be the link between the GeForce series and the Quadro series the last time we met it, in 2018.
The one that should serve as the unofficial replacement for the Titan that may find itself permanently retired (after two generations of architecture without any new model, assuming the rumors are accurate) is the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, when it is claimed that NVIDIA is stockpiling the most successful AD102 chips Its already from the beginning with the aim of reaching the required commercial scope that will justify the launch – with 18,176 active CUDA units based on 142 processing clusters out of 144 processing clusters that exist in the core, a familiar 24GB GDDR6X memory with a higher basic speed of 24Gbps and a basic boost frequency increased together to RTX The standard 4090 which will apparently stand at 2.7GHz or 2.75GHz.
All of these estimated figures could make the RTX 4090 Ti 15 percent to 20 percent more powerful than the RTX 4090, thus further widening the performance gap with respect to the RTX 3000 generation and likely with everything else the Radeon family will have to offer (also After the first RDNA 3 generation lands here) – when one can only imagine what a monstrous recommended price tag this piece of hardware could be. The Titan RTX was introduced to the world about four years ago with an MSRP of $2,500, and there’s a good chance that the intended RTX 4090 Ti will arrive with pricing very close to that value.
Additional news about NVIDIA that reaches us from China states that despite the healthy demand for the GeForce RTX 4090 cards, judging by the fact that it is very difficult to find stocks of them in stores around the world at this point even when the prices are close to 2,000 dollars per unit and 7,000-8,000 shekels, The chips gave the manufacturer TSMC an order to increase the production volume of Hopper cores for the HPC and server world at the expense of the Ada Lovelace cores, in order to meet the significant demand observed in this segment as well – where the average prices are tens of thousands of dollars and the profit margins are significantly higher for it.
Such a move means that the launches of RTX 4000 series models will arrive at a slower pace, or alternatively with more modest stocks that will make it difficult for consumers to find them on the shelves even in the foreseeable future – let’s just hope that this will not be a repeat of the huge shortage of graphics cards for the domestic market that has accompanied us since the beginning of 2020 and until the beginning of this year.