While NVIDIA never ended up releasing the “RTX 4090 Ti” or “RTX TITAN Ada” which is even more powerful than the uber-flagship that is RTX 4090, it looks like RTX 50 series will have its equivalent as well. This purported GB202-200-A1 silicon comes with even more cores than the RTX 5090, and its got the power draw to match: 800 watts.
Is This RTX 5090 Ti?
This photo, which originated from Chinese forums Chiphell, shows a largely blurred image of a PCB that shows just the silicon, memory, and a pair of 12V-2×6 connectors on the top right. We know that a single 12V-2×6 can reliably supply 600 watts of power, so having two of them present means this silicon is likely consuming more than that.
According to the user ‘omonob’, this card is an RTX 5090 engineering sample originally provided to AIB partners to create their own designs. The silicon in question is manufactured in week 29 of 2024 (July 15-21), and it’s a GB202-200-A1 silicon with all 24,576 CUDA cores enabled – more than the RTX 5090 that is available on the market today. Clock speeds are quoted as 2100MHz base, and 2514MHz boost, while VRAM uses 32GB 32Gbps GDDR7 that pushes up to 2TB/s of bandwidth.
However, nothing is said on the performance at this point, given that the user is requesting for access to drivers that is so far not publicly available (the user is even willing to pay for access according to the post).
In any case, it’s still unclear if this is ever to be the additional model of RTX 5090 or simply a prototype that ignores the silicon defects which makes commercialization more difficult. Recent flagship GPUs from NVIDIA has always featured some levels of cut-down silicon likely to increase yields, but such considerations aren’t needed when you’re just producing a handful of prototypes. We’ll likely know more if the user managed to get the drivers for this particular GPU, though.
Pokdepinion: The power draw just keeps going up, isn’t it?
