As the next generation of graphics cards approaches, perhaps just a few weeks before its official presentation, rumors continue to throw a lot of speculation about what AMD and Nvidia will offer this year. With the possibility of AMD’s Navi 31 having a larger memory bus than previously thought, and with various figures being shuffled around the TDP of the green team’s flagship GPU, it can be difficult to filter what is true. and what is just a rumour.
In this sense, there has been talk of the Ada Lovelace range from Jensen Huang and company, specifically how big it could be. According to a recent video on YouTube channel Moore’s Law Is Dead, Nvidia could launch a new generation graphics card that could be quite large, more than recent Ampere offerings.
It has been suggested that the next range RTX, most likely the 4090 Ti, could occupy up to 4.5 slots in a user’s PC. This may even become the standard as the new generation comes into its own. The video’s sources even claim that these cards will be “monsters,” with the presenter adding that another source claims the 4090 Ti could be around $2,000.
To many, the idea of a GPU taking up 4.5 slots will seem ridiculous. However, given the sheer size of the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti, whose largest designs take up 3.5 slots, this could be the future of enthusiast graphics hardware.
This recent speculation seems to correlate with some leaked images, which show a fairly expansive cooler for an upcoming graphics card. Although the MLID host admits that it could look so big just from the angle at which the photo was taken, the fact that sources have indicated that the 4090 Ti could take up a lot of space matches the images.