A team of intrepid modders at Teclab have created an RTX 4090 Super, or the equivalent, concocting a kind of ‘frankenGPU’ which is a considerable chunk faster than the stock Lovelace flagship graphics card.
You might recall there were rumors flying around for a long while about an RTX 4090 Ti (which was assumed to be the name back then, before the Super variants for Lovelace emerged), so it’s interesting to see this finally happen – well, kind of.
However, with the GPU also overclocked to 3GHz, that lead was extended to 16%, a more than healthy difference for a ‘Super’ take on a graphics card.
Analysis: Speed demons
This is a nifty experiment from Teclab, and it shows what we could have had if Nvidia had given the Super treatment to the highest-end Lovelace GPU instead of stopping at the RTX 4080 Super. Of course, for this generation, the RTX 4090 was plenty powerful enough anyway – and arguably for the next-gen, too, in many respects, although a much more powerful flagship is still inbound with Blackwell graphics cards.
If the rumors are right, we’ll see the RTX 5090 later in 2024 (and likely the RTX 5080 too, and that may even arrive slightly ahead of the next-gen flagship). And what’s interesting with this mod is we can see the effects of faster video RAM quite clearly illustrated, and Blackwell will go further in this regard, loading up with cutting-edge GDDR7 memory. This will hit 28Gbps (or indeed even faster) and offers a whole raft of performance advancements as already teased to a considerable extent.
Expectations for the RTX 5090 to be a big leap from the RTX 4090 are still riding high, and much faster VRAM will be an important part of the frame rate boosts that Nvidia’s next-gen flagship GPU will doubtless deliver.