On one of the stands at CES, we could find heatsink components from a card that NVIDIA has never launched before: the Titan RTX. A videographer by the name of Toro Tocho Reviews made the discovery, which was relayed by VideoCardz. All this confirms that NVIDIA was at one point seriously considering this solution. However, for reasons that are more or less unknown, the brand didn’t take the plunge.
Titan RTX: Titan RTX components on display at CES!
We’re familiar with the heatsink in question, as we’ve talked about it on numerous occasions. It was truly colossal, being four slots thick. What’s more, it would have been used to dissipate a very large AD102-based GPU, which would have contained more SM, cuda core, Tensor core and RT core in order to dethrone the RTX 4090. However, the Chameleon never launched such a card, and the reasons for its abandonment are not yet officially known. But we can imagine that the Greens didn’t need such a card to be number 1 in the market!
Otherwise, this cooling system would have been mounted on a PCB containing several modules, at least two: the main circuit with the GPU, memory, VRMs and video outputs. On the other, we have a ribbon cable used to connect the card’s PCIe slot.
This cooling system is truly massive, with a thickness of four slots. Likewise, it incorporates a total of three fans, two visible on the front and rear of the radiator. The last fan is located in the various fin blocks of the cooling system.
Finally, it’s fair to say that NVIDIA seemed to be planning such a cooling system for several models. Here we have the one labelled ‘Titan RTX’, but GamersNexus recently took apart the one with the GeForce RTX logo and a little RTX 4090 reminder, and we’ve attached a video of the latter.