der8auer tests unreleased Nvidia RTX Titan Ada GPU
Nvidia’s long-rumoured RTX TITAN ADA is real, and Der8auer has tested it
The world-renowned overclocker der8auer has found and tested a prototype for Nvidia’s unreleased RTX TITAN ADA graphics card. This GPU is a higher-end version of Nvidia’s RTX 4090, delivering the full potential of Nvidia’s AD102 silicon.
This GPU prototype is 4 PCIe slots thick and features two 12V-2×6 (16-pin) power connectors. However, der8auer has confirmed that the GPU did not use more than 450W of power during testing. It is possible that higher power levels were planned for this GPU as part of an unreleased firmware revision.
Nvidia’s TITAN ADA graphics card features 18,432 CUDA cores and 48GB of GDDR6X memory. This GPU features 2x as much memory as an RTX 4090 and 12.5% more CUDA cores. Sadly, this GPU is not supported by Nvidia’s latest drivers, but der8auer got it working with older Nvidia drivers from 2023.
The RTX TITAN ADA is powerful, but bandwidth-limited
During his testing, der8auer found that Nvidia’s unreleased TITAN GPU delivered performance levels between Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and RTX 5090. In some tests, the unreleased TITAN was up to 22% faster than Nvidia’s RTX 4090. However, performance benefits were much lower in tests that used ray tracing. Ultimately, the performance of some tests was limited by this GPU’s available memory bandwidth, limiting its maximum performance.
Der8auer’s video contains a lot of testing data. We recommend that our readers watch it to see more gaming performance data for this unreleased graphics card.
If Nvidia released this BIG ADA graphics card, it would have been a notable mid-generation upgrade for Nvidia’s ADA/RTX 40 series generation. That said, this graphics card would have undermined the performance leap Nvidia’s RTX 5090 would deliver. Furthermore, this custom GPU looks like it would have been incredibly expensive given its bespoke PCB and heatsink designs.
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