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NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 With 96GB VRAM Reportedly Exists; The GPU May Enter Mass Production Soon, Targeting AI Workloads
Reports Confirm RTX 4090 With up to 96 GB VRAM May Enter Market in a Couple of Months
The GeForce RTX 4090 with 96 GB VRAM is rumored to be in the test phase and will reportedly enter mass production soon.
It seems that the rumors about the RTX 4090 with more than 24 GB VRAM are somewhat true. This isn't official yet, but the leaks have confirmed that the RTX 4090 with 96 GB VRAM will be released soon, along with the one with 48 GB memory.
A user by the username @eisneim posted on X that he had received the confirmation of a 96 GB edition of GeForce RTX 4090. Now, this particular edition is not yet in mass production but is relatively still in the testing phase. Once it passes all the required tests, it will be released in the future.
We still want you to take this with a grain of salt, but one of the factory employees has confirmed this, and it looks feasible. As per another user in the thread, one of the factories is selling an RTX 4090 with 48 GB VRAM, but they informed him that the 96 GB edition isn't possible. However, the OP informed that it is a different factory, and they claimed that making one with 96 GB VRAM onboard isn't tricky.
The user did confirm that the one with a 96 GB VRAM won't guarantee stability and that its cost, due to a higher VRAM, will be twice the amount you would pay on the 48 GB edition. As per the user, this is one of the reasons why the factories are considering making only the 48 GB edition but may prepare the 96 GB in about 3-4 months.
RTX 4090 has a 384-bit memory bus, so it will need at least 4GB GDDR6X memory modules to reach 96 GB on a custom PCB through the 12 channels. However, currently, neither GDDR6X nor GDDR6 have 4GB modules and are limited to just 2GB capacity. One user says that the manufacturer making the 96 GB edition does have 4GB memory chips, but we don't know how and from which manufacturer.
Guess we will find out in a couple of months, but at least for now, it's safe to say that the 96 GB edition of the RTX 4090 does look possible. With such a large VRAM capacity, workloads such as AI and data-intensive tasks will be highly advantageous, and it's unlikely that the 96 GB editions will offer any additional benefits in gaming. And given that how difficult it is to get AI accelerators for regions like China, consumer GPUs with bumped up VRAMs might do the job.
Source: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-4090-with-96gb-vram-reportedly-exists/
