News RTX 4090 Ti prototype surfaced in the trash — massive GPU has PCB parallel to the motherboard with display connectors mounted on a separate daughte...

[Admin]

Reddit user This_Explanation_514 discovered a prototype GPU that looks like the RTX 4090 Ti in the trash bin.

RTX 4090 Ti prototype surfaced in the trash — massive GPU has PCB parallel to the motherboard with display connectors mounted on a separate daughte... : Read more

 

[bit_user]

The RTX 4090 Ti could’ve been Nvidia’s most powerful consumer GPU offering. Still, the U.S. ban on exporting high-end technologies to China, which includes the RTX 4090 (and will likely also include the RTX 4090 Ti if launched), is probably why Team Green canceled this product.

This feels like a troll. It's hard for me to believe there wouldn't be sufficient non-Chinese demand to justify it. Plus, even sanctioned graphics cards still make it into China, just at a lower rate.

I think Nvidia probably looked at yields + demand for RTX 6000 ADA and L40's and decided there just weren't enough extra dies they could sell as RTX 4090 Ti's. If they went ahead and offered it anyway, the small quantities would've resulted in high prices that would've caused a lot of negative PR for themselves in the process, while not really benefiting a significant number of gamers.

 

[Lucky_SLS]

^Nah, I think it was just profit. Nvidia does not need to prove to anyone without a worthy competitor to challenge the 4090/4090ti. Why waste money with GDDR6X when you can slap more memory and earn almost thrice as much?

The performance improvement would be in the 10 to 15% range. Nothing to rave about.

4090 - 16384 cores
4090ti - 18176/18432 cores

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=Ada+Lovelace&sort=generation

 

[spongiemaster]

^Nah, I think it was just profit. Nvidia does not need to prove to anyone without a worthy competitor to challenge the 4090/4090ti. Why waste money with GDDR6X when you can slap more memory and earn almost thrice as much?

The performance improvement would be in the 10 to 15% range. Nothing to rave about.

4090 - 16384 cores
4090ti - 18176/18432 cores

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?architecture=Ada+Lovelace&sort=generation

Most likely. Without any competition from AMD, Nvidia felt no need to compete with themselves. Releasing a 4090Ti would have made them less money than continuing to sell ADA 6000 cards.

The China hypothesis in the article is comical. China is the 3rd largest market for Nvidia, but still only constitutes about 17% of their total revenue.

 

[MobileJAD]

Cant sell to China? Might as well not market the gpu at all then. /s

 

[husker]

Yes, because multi-billion-dollar R&D departments are always just tossing their prototypes in the trash bin for random reddit users to pick up.

 

[bit_user]

Yes, because multi-billion-dollar R&D departments are always just tossing their prototypes in the trash bin for random reddit users to pick up.

I'd guess they sent it out with their other e-waste. We don't know how many of these engineering prototypes they had, but it's possible they didn't run at full speed and lab space is fairly precious. You can't just keep all the old stuff, "just because", and they might have a policy against employees taking stuff home with them, since it creates a conflict of interest.

Probably knowing the e-waste batch came from Nvidia, someone handling it was probably on a keen lookout for anything interesting. On one of the edges, there's damage consistent with it being in a bin with a bunch of other parts.

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