There’s supposedly at the very least one Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Tremendous on this planet, in line with one Brazilian modding group that has managed to engineer the closest factor we’ll probably ever get to what would’ve been the quickest potential GPU of its era.
The Nvidia RTX 4090 mod takes what has been the one quickest and greatest graphics card out there for practically two years now and swaps the usual card’s 21Gbps GDDR6X VRAM for 23.5Gbps VRAM modules – mockingly taken from an older RTX 2080 Ti card. Not content material, it then overclocks that reminiscence to 25.8Gbps, overclocks the GPU itself, modifications BIOS settings, ups voltages, and extra.
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The result’s a card that progressively outperforms the inventory RTX 4090 as every stage of the mod is utilized. With simply the reminiscence modules swapped, the cardboard will get a 13% pace enhance recorded within the Unigine Superposition benchmark. With the GPU clock then boosted from 2520MHz to three,000MHz, the cardboard steps as much as a 16% efficiency enhance.
The scenario will get a bit muddy when the group begins utilizing LOD bias tweaks to begin growing the utmost benchmark rating. That is the place altering the worth of the LOD bias within the Nvidia driver settings can be utilized to make sure sure benchmarks carry out at their quickest. The issue being that the group may have used this ‘mod’ on the unique card as effectively. Regardless, the top result’s a last Unigine Superposition rating of 17,454, which is 40% larger than the inventory card’s rating of 12,479.
It’s a formidable outcome that definitely reveals that the RTX 4090 has loads of headroom for extra efficiency and is, if something, starved for reminiscence bandwidth. That’s little question at the very least a part of the explanation why the upcoming RTX 5090 is predicted to make use of the very newest GDDR7 tech with a clock pace of 28Gbps.
Nevertheless, together with the overly lengthy (1hr+) video that waffles on about what they’re doing and the greater than barely iffy benchmarking methodology, what’s significantly received our goat about this mod is asking it an RTX 4090 Tremendous. Historically, the Tremendous variants of Nvidia graphics playing cards have included a rise in CUDA core counts – usually as a result of further components of the GPU being enabled – not simply a rise in reminiscence pace, even when that reminiscence bump requires some spectacular chip swapping and different modification.
Particularly, within the case of the RTX 4090, it makes use of Nvidia’s AD102 GPU however not the entire GPU is definitely used. Solely 14,592 of its complete 18,432 CUDA cores are enabled, with others disabled. Most of the time this use of not full GPUs is because of minor manufacturing defects affecting these areas of the GPU, however these defects don’t all the time imply the areas are utterly unusable. As such, historically, mods to allow these disabled cores have been the center of making do-it-yourself “Tremendous” card variants.
No matter we make of the self-proclaimed naming of this modded card, that uncooked 16% efficiency enhance is definitely spectacular contemplating how highly effective a graphics card the RTX 4090 is already.
When you mull over the potential for resoldering and modifying a $2,000 graphics card, why not learn up on what we predict is in retailer when Nvidia’s subsequent flagship card arrives in our RTX 5090 information, which incorporates our newest estimates on its specs and launch date.