Nvidia RTX Ada Titan Leaks Show Quad-Slot Monstrosity, Dual 16-pin Connectors

The new photos come from notorious leaker Moores Law is Dead (MLID) on YouTube. He says he has actually had the photos for a while. Someone from Nvidia sent them to him, and he had to tweak their colors a bit to hide their providence. Still, it’s a Titan board, complete with a gold finish, in keeping with tradition. The card takes up four slots and looks noticeably larger than the RTX 4090. With its dual sixteen-pin power connectors, Total Board Power (TBP) is somewhere around 650W. It could theoretically be pushed to 700W with overclocking, says MLID’s sources. It’s supposedly rocking 48GB of 24Gb/s GDDR6X memory too. Nvidia was also testing a version that was north of 1000W at one point. It was doing this out of genuine curiosity, just to see where the limits were.

Those prototype GPUs were reportedly melting power supplies, as well as the boards themselves. It’s for a similar reason that MLID says the Titan card shown in photos will likely never be released. There are several reasons for this, with the simplest being it doesn’t need to do it. Now that the Radeon RX 7900 series has launched, Nvidia still has a comfortable advantage over AMD with the RTX 4090. AMD has shown it will not challenge that GPU. This means Nvidia can keep the 4090 Ti/Titan in the lab for now. Another reason is that with two 16-pin connectors, people with older PSUs could need eight PCIe power cables running into two adapters, which is just a bit much. Also, a quad-slot design might be too much for many ATX cases.

Despite Nvidia’s likely decision to cancel Ada Titan, the company was obviously far along in its development. The photos show what appears to be a finished GPU, not a prototype. MLID also notes Nvidia could probably sell a lot of these GPUs and make a healthy profit. Since Nvidia can’t keep the $1,600 RTX 4090 in stock anywhere, it could probably price it at $3,000. That would turn more profit-per-square-inch of die space than the much smaller $1,200 RTX 4080. Nvidia also might just keep the full AD102 die for its A6000 data center GPUs, which sell for $6,800.

For now, MLID says Nvidia will likely shelve the quad-slot design it built. However, it has it built and tested in case of emergency. Instead, it’ll likely still launch the RTX 4090 Ti at some point, using the same three-slot cooler for the 4090. This is a similar outcome to previous rumors about these flagship cards. The board will likely consume somewhere around 500W, but still have 24GB of memory. This could launch as a response to a theoretical Radeon RX 7950 XTX in the future.

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