It’s been two full generations since NVIDIA last introduced a TITAN card – the last released model was the TITAN RTX released in late 2018, or nearly 6 years ago at this point. However, we’ve seen clues of Team Green’s ultra-expensive GPU in the works before (which was eventually shelved), and now we are once again hearing rumors of TITAN’s revival.
RTX TITAN Blackwell: “The Big Thing Exists”
We haven’t seen any images of the presumably uber-large GPU at this time, but prominent leaker @kopite7kimi has very simply said, “the big thing exists.” This is in response of the report from leaker RedGamingTech, who reported that the top dog of the Blackwell lineup will be called – surprise, surprise – TITAN AI. In fairness to NVIDIA though, the name is justified as the nature of TITAN cards is for workstations and AI training uses.
In terms of performance, it is claimed that TITAN AI will by 63% faster than RTX 4090, while the RTX 5090 is said to be 48% faster. This means TITAN AI will only have a 10% performance advantage over RTX 5090. But the big question is – will NVIDIA launch this model to the market? This is very much still anyone’s guesses at this point, as neither AMD or Intel will pose a threat to the chipmaker’s market domination in the coming generation. This is widely believed to be the reason for TITAN Ada’s cancellation as well.
With that, it’s reasonable to believe that TITAN Blackwell / TITAN AI will not be as aggressive as its unreleased Ada counterpart, which features a gargantuan chassis and rotated PCB to contain up to 800W of TGP. We already know from Seasonic’s database that RTX 5090 will consume 500W – it shouldn’t take too much power to achieve another 10% worth of performance, if the numbers are anything to go by.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: Maybe a 600W card would be more feasible than the 800W monster that TITAN Ada once was?
