Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti: Rumored specs, performance & more
Dexerto All current information suggests that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Ti has been canceled. Here is what information we have on this scrapped GPU.
Recent indications are that Nvidia has refocussed their attention on their mid-range graphics cards, with the recent Super refresh of the 40-Series targetting the middle of the pack with new Super versions of the RTX 4070, RTX 4070 TI, and RTX 4080. This new product lineup leaves little room for an ultra high-end card like the RTX 4090 Ti.
Rumors suggested that the initially planned launch date for the RTX 4090 Ti was intended to be September 2023, but clearly, plans must have changed. There has been no official announcement of the cancellation, but with Nvidia’s attention focussed on the Super refresh of the 40 Series, there was a suggestion that there could be a new and more powerful variant of the RTX 4090 in the works.
Recent leaks have suggested that there might be an RTX 4090 Super on the way, as well as a possible return of the Nvidia Titan branding. Based on this, it is possible that the RTX 4090 Ti will instead become the RTX 4090 Super, though this remains unconfirmed at present.
An apparent prototype version of the RTX 4090 Ti was found by a Reddit user who posted images of the card to show that it might well have been a 4-slot behemoth of a card. Perhaps we will still see something similar, but for now, here is what we know about the 4090 Ti that might have been.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti and what could have been
Despite the lack of confirmation from Team Green, most analysts believe the 4090 Ti was scrapped before going into full production.
If the leaks are believed, Nvidia’s focus could now be on the next generation and the current roster of GPUs. The hypothetical RTX 5090 could be twice as powerful as the RTX 4090. The upcoming GPU is said to feature a 512-bit bus and is rumored to be able to offer 2TB/s of bandwidth.
Since there is no official confirmation on the launch date of the RTX 5090 or the cancellation of the RTX 4090 Ti, we only have prior leaks to use to analyze the performance of the GPU.
RTX 4090 Ti specifications leak
| GPU | Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti (Unconfirmed) | Nvidia RTX 4070 (Unconfirmed) | Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti | Nvidia RTX 4080 | Nvidia RTX 4090 | Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti (Unconfirmed) |
| CUDA cores | 4352 | 5888 | 7680 | 9728 | 16384 | 18176 |
| Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 12GB GDDR6X | 12GB GDDR6X | 16GB GDDR6X | 24GB GDDR6X | 24GB GDDR6X |
| TBP | 160W | 250W | 285W | 320W | 450W | 600W |
Courtesy of leaker Kopite7Kimi, we know some initial unconfirmed specs of what the RTX 4090 Ti might have achieved. It was planned to use AD102 on a PG136 chip, which is still not the largest that Nvidia is capable of making. The initial plans seem to have been that the board would come in both reference and Founders Edition variants, too. That goes to the PG137, which is currently rumored to be the return of the Titan class of graphics cards.
If the 4090 Ti had ever reached release, it would have been one hell of a GPU. Sporting 18176 CUDA cores, the RTX 4090 Ti will have 10% more CUDA cores than the vanilla RTX 4090. This is a huge increase on an already incredibly powerful graphics card. To add to this, the GPU would have sported a mighty 96Mb of L2 cache. Though the GPU will still be using the same 24GB of GDDR6X of RAM, but slightly souped up to allow for a 144GB/s throughput, making it quicker than any other RAM on a standard RTX 4090.
This is also in line with previous leaks that we have seen, which claimed similar things about the RTX 4090 Ti’s performance numbers, though the board power has dramatically increased.
One interesting thing to note is that the RTX 4090 Ti was rated with a total board power of a staggering 600W. This is the maximum wattage a 12VHPWR port can handle. This is making those power fears many had last year come seemingly true. However, this also represents a 33% increase in power consumption when compared to the normal RTX 4090.
RTX 4090 Ti release date speculation
As it is, it seems the RTX 4090 Ti will never be released. We are well past any expected release date now, and with rumors of the 40-Super series coming soon, the 4090 Ti would not match up with the rest of the product line.
RTX 4090 Ti benchmark expectations
The figures we have suggest that the RTX 4090 Ti would have been up to 20% faster than the RTX 4090. With this difference in performance compared to the base RTX 4090, it could have provided enhanced ray-tracing performance, in addition to great performance at high resolutions thanks to that incredibly speedy RAM.
RTX 4090 Ti price expectations
It was expected that had the RTX 4090 Ti come to market, it would have had a list price of around $2000. This would have made it slightly more expensive than the RTX 4090’s current MSRP of $1599. This would have been in line with other products, especially considering how much silicon was packed in there, and how powerful these graphics cards could also be.
RTX 4090 Ti quad-slot cooler
ExperteVallahThe RTX 4090 Ti keeps leaking out on social media, with the card’s chassis now on full display. Rumored to originally be the Titan RTX, it appears this will now be the 4090 Ti. MSI showed off a quad-slot card at Computex 2023, but social media users have been leaking the card out. This seems to confirm that Nvidia is housing the hardware for its Founders Edition GPU in a quad-slot design as well.
Will the RTX 4090 Ti be the most powerful GPU?
The RTX 4090 Ti would have been the most powerful gaming GPU that Nvidia had ever created up to that point. This is based on the leaked specs for the CUDA core count, VRAM, and more. Sadly this is not able to be proved, since the card is not expected to ever be launched.
Right now, it doesn’t look like AMD will be able to take the power crown this generation. We may have to wait and see what RDNA 4 cooks up on the Team Red side to see them go toe-to-toe with Nvidia once again.