THE GEFORCE BEAST
THE 4090 TI BOASTS IMPRESSIVE STATS
The RTX 3090 Ti; expect the 4090 Ti to look similar.
WE’RE EAGERLY WAITING the next generation of cards from Nvidia with the new Ada Lovelace GPUs, especially the halo model: the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti. This will sport a GPU near the top of the Lovelace tree, an AD102-400-A1, or AD102-450-A1, using close to the full die. There will be a lot of cores: 18,176 or more CUDA cores, 142 or 144 RT cores, and 576-odd Tensor cores. The RTX 4090 Ti will couple this to a whopping 48GB of GDDR6X sitting on a 384-bit bus capable of shifting 1,152GB/s. There is no statistic about this triple-width card that isn’t jaw-dropping, including expected power consumption, which has a rumored TDP of 800W, requiring a 1,200W PSU as a minimum and two 16- pin power connectors. Early leaks put this monster at around twice as powerful as the card it replaces. A more modest 450W RTX 4090 is expected to appear first.