Overclocking pro Roman “Der8auer” Hartung got his hands on a prototype of NVIDIA’s TITAN ADA, a top-tier card that never made it to stores. Even though it didn’t launch, this TITAN ADA prototype shows off a mix of workstation-level power and next-level gaming performance.
Fans have been buzzing about a true TITAN successor in the “Ada Lovelace” lineup for a while, and now we’ve got real proof of what it could have been. Inside, there’s a fully loaded AD102 GPU with all 144 streaming multiprocessors, giving it 18,432 CUDA cores—that’s about 12 percent more than the RTX 4090 you can buy. NVIDIA paired it with a massive 48 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 384-bit bus, doubling the memory of any other consumer Ada GPU. To keep it cool, the prototype rocks a big quad-slot, flow-through cooler in the classic beige TITAN style.
The TITAN ADA’s PCB isn’t your typical layout—it’s split into three parts, with a rotated main board and a separate daughterboard for the PCIe connection. This unique setup came before the vertical board designs we’d later see in the RTX 50 Series Founders Edition cards. It has dual 16-pin power connectors, hinting that NVIDIA might have planned for over 600 watts of power, but Der8auer’s tests only hit around 450 watts, probably because of the early vBIOS and older drivers.
In benchmark tests, the card’s full AD102 setup shone through. It scored about 15 percent better than the RTX 4090 in synthetic graphics tests, and in real-world gaming with titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Remnant 2, it saw boosts of 10 to 22 percent. That puts the TITAN ADA right between the 4090 and the new RTX 5090 in both speed and efficiency.
What do you think about this unreleased powerhouse? I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Source: via VideoCardz
