Impatient for Nvidias RTX 5090 to arrive? This frankenGPU thats basically an RTX 4090 Super will whet your appetite nicely

Date:
Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:43:06 +0000

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Disappointed we never got an RTX 4090 Super? Modders have made one, giving us a hint of how quick the RTX 5090 might be.

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A team of intrepid modders at Teclab have created an RTX 4090 Super, or the equivalent, concocting a kind of frankenGPU which is a considerable chunk faster than the stock Lovelace flagship graphics card.

You might recall there were rumors flying around for a long while about an
RTX 4090 Ti (which was assumed to be the name back then, before the Super variants for Lovelace emerged), so its interesting to see this finally happen
well, kind of.

The RTX 4090 Super in question is 13% faster than the stock RTX 4090 as Wccftech reports, but its actually an AD102 GPU (the chip in the RTX 4090) housed in the circuit board of an RTX 3090 Ti, with video RAM taken from an RTX 4080 Super .

Specifically, the board is from a Galax RTX 3090 Ti HOF OC model, a high-end board with premium components built for sturdy overclocking, and it has the AD102 chip in place alongside GDDR6X VRAM from the RTX 4080 Super running at 24Gbps.

With that VRAM subsequently overclocked to nearly 26Gbps, and a bunch of
other tuning applied, in the Unigine Superposition benchmark at 8K
resolution, the supercharged RTX 4090 was 13% faster compared to the normal RTX 4090.

However, with the GPU also overclocked to 3GHz, that lead was extended to
16%, a more than healthy difference for a Super take on a graphics card. Analysis: Speed demons

This is a nifty experiment from Teclab, and it shows what we could have had
if Nvidia had given the Super treatment to the highest-end Lovelace GPU instead of stopping at the RTX 4080 Super. Of course, for this generation,
the RTX 4090 was plenty powerful enough anyway and arguably for the
next-gen, too, in many respects, although a much more powerful flagship is still inbound with Blackwell graphics cards.

If the rumors are right, well see the RTX 5090 later in 2024 (and likely the RTX 5080 too, and that may even arrive slightly ahead of the next-gen
flagship ). And whats interesting with this mod is we can see the effects of faster video RAM quite clearly illustrated, and Blackwell will go further in this regard, loading up with cutting-edge GDDR7 memory. This will hit 28Gbps (or indeed even faster) and offers a whole raft of performance advancements
as already teased to a considerable extent.

Expectations for the RTX 5090 to be a big leap from the RTX 4090 are still riding high, and much faster VRAM will be an important part of the frame rate boosts that Nvidias next-gen flagship GPU will doubtless deliver. You might also like The best cheap graphics cards: top GPUs on a budget Top gaming PCs: great rigs for serious PC gaming Best PC games of 2024: must-play titles you don't want to miss



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/impatient-for-nvidias-rtx-5090-to-arri ve-this-frankengpu-thats-basically-an-rtx-4090-super-will-whet-your-appetite-n icely


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