A crew of intrepid modders at Teclab have created an RTX 4090 Tremendous, or the equal, concocting a sort of ‘frankenGPU’ which is a substantial chunk quicker than the inventory Lovelace flagship graphics card.
You may recall there have been rumors flying round for a protracted whereas about an RTX 4090 Ti (which was assumed to be the identify again then, earlier than the Tremendous variants for Lovelace emerged), so it’s fascinating to see this lastly occur – effectively, sort of.
The ‘RTX 4090 Tremendous’ in query is 13% quicker than the inventory RTX 4090 as Wccftech reviews, however it’s truly an AD102 GPU (the chip within the RTX 4090) housed within the circuit board of an RTX 3090 Ti, with video RAM taken from an RTX 4080 Tremendous.
Particularly, the board is from a Galax RTX 3090 Ti HOF OC mannequin, a high-end board with premium parts constructed for sturdy overclocking, and it has the AD102 chip in place alongside GDDR6X VRAM from the RTX 4080 Tremendous operating at 24Gbps.
With that VRAM subsequently overclocked to almost 26Gbps, and a bunch of different tuning utilized, within the Unigine Superposition benchmark at 8K decision, the supercharged RTX 4090 was 13% quicker in comparison with the traditional RTX 4090.
Nevertheless, with the GPU additionally overclocked to 3GHz, that lead was prolonged to 16%, a greater than wholesome distinction for a ‘Tremendous’ tackle a graphics card.
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It is a nifty experiment from Teclab, and it exhibits what we might have had if Nvidia had given the Tremendous therapy to the highest-end Lovelace GPU as a substitute of stopping on the RTX 4080 Tremendous. After all, for this era, the RTX 4090 was loads highly effective sufficient anyway – and arguably for the next-gen, too, in lots of respects, though a way more highly effective flagship continues to be inbound with Blackwell graphics playing cards.
If the rumors are proper, we’ll see the RTX 5090 later in 2024 (and certain the RTX 5080 too, and which will even arrive barely forward of the next-gen flagship). And what’s fascinating with this mod is we will see the results of quicker video RAM fairly clearly illustrated, and Blackwell will go additional on this regard, loading up with cutting-edge GDDR7 reminiscence. This can hit 28Gbps (or certainly even quicker) and affords a complete raft of efficiency developments as already teased to a substantial extent.
Expectations for the RTX 5090 to be a giant leap from the RTX 4090 are nonetheless using excessive, and far quicker VRAM can be an necessary a part of the body price boosts that Nvidia’s next-gen flagship GPU will likely ship.