Final 12 months, photos started leaking out of a rumored Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Ti prototype that sported a colossal four-slot-wide cooler. At first, the pictures simply confirmed the cooler however now, all this time later, contemporary photos of the thriller card have appeared on-line and it has now been proven truly working.
The unique four-slot RTX 4090 leak instructed it may have been both a prototype for the eventual RTX 4090 or for an much more highly effective variant which may have come to market because the RTX 4090 Ti. That will’ve made it the perfect graphics card round, however for no matter cause, Nvidia determined to not launch this variant of the cardboard. Right this moment’s benchmark leak, although, means that regardless of the authentic plans for this unusual card, the prototype right here was extra probably a variant of the RTX 4090, however a wild and great one we’d have like to see come to market.
The photographs of this newest doable RTX 4090 Ti prototype leak first appeared just a few days in the past on Reddit, after the cardboard was apparently present in a junk pile by a person named This_Explanation_514. They present the cardboard sporting a cooler that’s 4 PCIe slots large, utilizing a totally totally different configuration to different graphics playing cards.
As a substitute of the cardboard’s PCB standing vertically and slotting straight into your motherboard’s PCIe slot, this card has the primary PCB sitting horizontally with a brief part of additional board devoted to sliding into the PCIe slot.
As we focus on in our Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 assessment, the Nvidia Founders Version of that card that was ultimately launched remains to be an unlimited unit however this leaked card would’ve been even greater, as proven within the comparability of this card and different high-end playing cards within the picture beneath.
The whole remainder of the peak of the cardboard is devoted to the cooler. A big array of heatpipes and cooling fins stretches out above the PCB and is surrounded by the cooler shroud that includes three followers. Two are uncovered in a configuration very like most different RTX 4000 Founders Version playing cards however then there’s a third fan hidden contained in the heatsink, as proven within the picture beneath from a earlier leak of this card’s cooler.
It’s an interesting design that has some actual potential in groups of creating cooling of those playing cards extra environment friendly. Nevertheless, it does make for a ludicrously large card and the PCB protecting the slots beneath does create some considerations about airflow over M.2 SSDs mounted beneath the GPU.
Following these preliminary picture leaks, the individual that initially posted the leaked photos added extra photos and data to the Reddit feedback, exhibiting the cardboard’s specs captured utilizing GPU-Z. That’s thrilling to see, because it reveals this actually is a working prototype, though it’s odd the person hasn’t posted some screenshots of the cardboard working video games or proven a fast video clip of it working.
What’s extra, the GPU-Z information reveals, or no less than suggests, that that is certainly simply an RTX 4090, not an RTX 4090 Ti and even an RTX 5090. The screenshots clearly present GPU-Z measuring the variety of shaders on this card as 16,384, which is similar as an RTX 4090. The cardboard additionally sports activities the identical 24GB of VRAM. Nevertheless, the clock speeds are barely totally different however not on this card’s favor, as they’re truly slower than the ultimate RTX 4090, with base and increase clock figures of two,115MHz and a couple of,355MHz. Compared, the RTX 4090 runs at a 2,235MHz base clock and a couple of,625MHz increase clock.
No matter this card truly is, we must always hopefully discover out as a lot as we ever can quickly sufficient, because the finder of this card has revealed they’ll be sending the cardboard to tech YouTube channel GamersNexus for them to check. Odds are it would simply be an early prototype for the RTX 4090 however you by no means know.
In the meantime, in case you’re truly available in the market to purchase a graphics card proper now, the RTX 4090 isn’t an possibility we essentially advocate, as costs are inflated proper now. The precise Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Founder Version has an MSRP of $1,599 however you’ll battle to discover a card below $2,000. As a substitute, we’d advocate looking for out an RTX 4080 Tremendous – and studying our RTX 4080 Tremendous assessment – as they value half that whereas delivering near 4090 efficiency.
