The next September 20 NVIDIA will show for the final time first models of its RTX 40 range to the public, it will announce its final characteristics, its price and release date. Which means that the models are already finished, not only those of NVIDIA itself, but also those of other manufacturers, as is the case with a custom card. GIGABYTE RTX 4090. And it is that little by little photos of the different custom models of the graphics card are leaking. Which shows that his arrival is imminent.
The commercial life of the RTX 30 has been an ordeal for PC gamers, who have been relegated to having to survive with their veteran GPU for a long time while waiting for the launch of a new generation. In the midst of the dilemma of whether to buy the discounted RTX 30 due to excess inventory or wait, NVIDIA itself will release its new generation of cards and Everything indicates that it will be in the month of Octoberat least, the first of the models that will be the RTX 4090.
One of the leaked GIGABYTE RTX 4090
To the photo that leaked yesterday of the Zotac model, today it’s up to one of the GIGABYTE models and incidentally confirms several of the things that we logically assumed. The first one is that apart from the use of the most powerful AD102 chip with its 16,384 CUDA cores spread over 128 SM, think that the 3090 Ti has 84 cores or SM. On the other hand, everything indicates that the rest of the card has lSame build as the RTX 3090 Ti that came out a few months ago and that takes 450 W from the new 12+4-pin connector, plus the 75 W that PCI Express already has as a base for said interface.
As for the amount of memory, this is GDDR6X in 24 GB, which marks an expected 384-bit busAlthough we do not know the final speed of the memory, it is expected to be at least 21 Gbps and therefore have the same bandwidth as the RTX 3090 Ti. In any case, with the increase in cores and elements that make memory requests, we wonder if NVIDIA has not integrated a memory compression and decompression system on the fly. Although what we do know from the leak from a few months ago is a significant increase in the amount of L2 cache in the system compared to the RTX 30.
Is there a higher model?
In this season of rumors there has been talk of three configurations of the AD102 chip, the lowest would be that of the RTX 4090 that would make use of the new 12+4-pin connector in its 450 W configuration, but we must remember that there is the 600 W. In addition, the AD102 chip has a total of 144 cores in its configuration, so as it happened in its day, there is an option for a higher power model.
So the question is whether we are going to see an RTX 4090 Ti or even a Titan ADA. In the second case, there is talk of a dual-connector beast with 48 GB of video memory. Which won’t be exactly cheap and could be aimed at the AI market, where the 24GB configuration is seen as limited. What is our opinion? There are a few days left and the event by NVIDIA on its RTX 40 will focus on the GeForce and the gaming market, which is why we believe that we will not see a model above the RTX 4090 during the presentation on the 20th, despite that may exist in the future.
Although, of course, NVIDIA can always surprise us with something.
