Although it may sound hard to believe, Nvidia never really showed the full potential of their GPUs in the current generation of GeForce RTX 4000 graphics. The highest gaming model, the GeForce RTX 4090, has the AD102 GPU used quite a bit reduced – only 128 out of 144 units are active in it. The Titan model was supposed to have full fire, but Nvidia canceled it. But now there are reports that it could be different in the RTX 5000 generation and Titan graphics are being prepared again.
The information was first brought to the YouTube channel RedGamingTech. According to his information, in addition to the usual gaming cards that we already expect (RTX 5080, RTX 5090), Nvidia is preparing one more higher model, namely the Titan. More precisely, it should have a label Titan AI, exactly in the spirit of today’s times. Titan graphics usually use a higher, fully active or near fully active chip configuration.
We have rumors that the GeForce RTX 5090, like today’s RTX 4090, will be quite polished and, for example, it is not even supposed to use a full memory bus, it should only be equipped with 448 bits, which would mean 28GB of memory capacity. However, the Titan AI model would probably have a full 512 bits of memory installed with the resulting higher throughput and higher capacity (32 GB, or even 64 GB if the number of chips per channel is doubled). Also, the GPU itself could have multiple compute units enabled and could provide almost all of the 192 SMs (24,576 shaders) that the GB202 chip is said to contain.
However, such a card could also have a higher consumption. Ada Lovelace’s generation Titan, prototypes of which exist but have been canceled by Nvidia, were rumored to draw 600W, or perhaps even as high as 800W. The card was supposed to have a very complicated multi-part PCB and a heatsink occupying four PCI Express slots. It is possible that the Titan AI in the Blackwell generation will be similarly extreme. After all, there are signs that even the GeForce RTX 5090 could have increased consumption (reference TDP 500 W).
The RedGamingTech channel is not the only one claiming that Nvidia is working on the Titan card (or Titan AI). After him, this information was also confirmed by Kopite7kimi on Twitter, who is the most informed and reliable informant regarding Nvidia’s plans since the Ampere generation. According to Kopite7kimi, “the big thing” really exists.
But the problem is that Nvidia may again decide not to release this graphics, whatever reasons it had for the Ada generation (for example, problems with the power connectors, or simply the consumption was considered too high?). At the moment, probably no one at Nvidia knows for sure whether it will remain only with prototypes again, plans can still change several times.
More for AI mania than gaming
But even if this graphics comes out, it might not be intended for the regular gaming market at all. Nvidia already had these tendencies with the Titan series for some time, the Titan V was based on the GV100 chip of the Volta architecture, otherwise only used in servers and for AI acceleration, and this largely directed the Titan V into semi-professional computing use as well.
The next card of the Turing generation (Titan RTX) had RT cores as a big novelty, which again redirected this series a bit back to graphics, but in the long term Nvidia probably wanted to make this series a “cheaper” card for workstations rather than for (richest) gamers. In the current situation, the model would probably be aimed at all developers or smaller companies that purchase the highest models of the GeForce gaming series as a cheaper alternative to specialized AI accelerators.
Even models like GeForce RTX 4090 are pushing in this direction with prices attacking $2000 (where are those days when a high-end GPU cost $600-700, or even less…). So you can probably imagine that if Titan AI comes out, Nvidia will pay for it. It is not excluded that the price may end up somewhere around $4000-5000, i.e. above the threshold of one hundred thousand crowns.
Resources: RedGamingTech, VideoCardz, Kopite7kimi
Source: www.cnews.cz
