For days the launch of a new graphics card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture has been rumored, however, we are not talking about the RTX 4060 or the RTX 4070, but about a model outside the nomenclature and that would be the top graphics cards for this generation from NVIDIA without counting the models for HPC, we are talking about the RTX Titan ADA. What will differentiate it from the 4090 TI?
NVIDIA’s Titan range had been missing for two generations, mostly due to the fact that the Titan Ampere graphics card was rebranded at the last minute as the 3090. With the 4090 and 4090 TI models, it’s clear that this model is aimed at another public.
RTX Titan ADA, what we know
The existence of this graphics card I do not know for the gaming market but for the artificial intelligence market, which is used to working with data sets large enough that a 24 GB card ends up being short in terms of memory Of video. Hence the need for a model with 48 GB.
In this mode, the pins and addressing are independent for each memory chip, but the data pins are not duplicated and are shared. So you end up having twice the RAM in capacity, or but the same bandwidth. NVIDIA already experimented with it on the original RTX 3090 where there were GDDR6X memory chips on both sides of the board. What’s more, the image you see below is of the PCB of said card and we have included it for illustrative purposes.
exclusive industrial design
today we have to take into account that video memory also consumes power from the PCI Express port to function and that increasing the number of chips means having to share more of the power it receives from the source. So it is possible that RTX Titan ADA has both memory and main chip clock speeds that are slightly lower than the 4090 TI.
The other issue is dissipation and the industrial design of the card, since when placing memory on the opposite side of the board and not precisely low consumption memory, a way to cool it has to be found. So unlike the 4090 TI, the ADA Titan would have a completely new industrial design, which receives the name of PG137. So physically it will be easy to distinguish this model from the RTX 4090 and 4090 Ti with the naked eye.
Its main market is AI
As we said at the beginning, this graphics card would not be intended for the gaming market. If we look at the ultra quality requirements of the most cutting-edge PC games and with 4K resolution and all the active visual options, we will see that the 24 GB of the 4090 is far away, so the 48 GB of the ADA Titan is not necessary. .
Let’s not forget that NVIDIA, for a long time, not only makes graphics cards for gaming. On the other hand, there were complaints from the community that works in the field of AI that actively complained about the low memory of the RTX 30 and The same aspect of the RTX 4090 has been complained about. It was not a limitation of memory speed or power of the graphics chip, but rather a lack of capacity on the bar for data storage.
Hence In the short and medium term, those 48 GB will not give even the most enthusiastic P player an advantage.C, showing that despite its name, NVIDIA has not created it for the PC gamer market. We just need to know its price and release date, but we don’t think it’s going to be cheap
