NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, the flagship GPU that was never released, has once again made an appearance, and it looks like a beast.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti GPU spotted once again, features a quad-slot design with a massive heatsink
NVIDIA wanted to squeeze every drop of performance the Ada architecture could bring onto the table. Unfortunately, it didn't achieve it even with the flagship RTX 4090 GPU due to power restraints. This is why originally the green team went for the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, which appeared last year a few times, showing an enormous size we hadn't seen on an NVIDIA desktop GPU before.
Once again, the GPU has made a wild appearance out of nowhere as a Redditor brings the card home from a trash bin. Yup, someone who owned this limited edition just threw it in a garbage can and u/This_Explanation_514 brought it home and showed us some pics. As we can see, it is the same design we saw earlier, boasting a 4-slot thickness that could cover your entire ATX motherboard's bottom half and all of its PCI-E slots.
Previously, it was rumored to be a TITAN Ada card, but whatever the exact model was planned originally, it was almost double the size of previous TITAN cards. Such an enormous heatsink creates various design issues, which is why the power connector was rotated at 90 degrees on the side. The card also brought a side-mounted PCB with display connectors and, due to such an unusual design, NVIDIA may have thought about canceling it altogether, especially when it knew the RTX 4090 wouldn't have any competitors, let alone its Ti iteration.
The Redditor hasn't updated about whether it worked or not, but it was still surprising that he found its full PCB inside. The last time we saw something about this GPU was a month ago, but at that time only its I/O bracket was leaked, which indicated that the card was a 3-slot GPU. It's possible that the GPU was designed in both a 3-slot and 4-slot design and would have brought either 24 GB or 48 GB GDDR6X memory according to some leaks.
The RTX 4090 Ti was expected to feature higher specifications and power requirements than the RTX 4090 and while it was thicker than the latter, the difference between the 4090 Ti and the previous-gen TITAN card was way too much.
News Sources: Reddit, Videocardz
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