The fake RTX 4090 was initially sold to someone for ... and 3080 Ti's GA102 die. The memory chips were also suspect, featuring no visible labeling whatsoever. We can only assume the card wasn ...

The GPU inside wasn't Nvidia's latest AD102 "Ada Lovelace" chip powering the RTX 4090. Instead, it was an older GA102 die from the RTX 3080 Ti, repackaged and relabeled to look like the new flagship.

The GeForce version of this chip will be named the GB200 series ... For context, the smaller AD102 die used in the RTX 4090 is still huge at 609mm squared, but AMD's graphics die complex (GCD ...

The brute-force method of squeezing more transistors on a chip just doesn’t work like it used to Nvidia can’t deliver a generational uplift on the level of the RTX 4090 unless transistors get ...

Neither the RTX 4090 or the 3090 had ... none of them get the full die, none of them are cut down a lot though, and everything else is just sold as laptop chips, AI, or data center.

the new chip doesn’t shift the needle. Where the 5090 does stand out is power consumption. It runs over 50 watts lower under full load than the 4090, which can lead to cooler chassis ...

If it was a monolithic die, that'd be 24 cores and 48 ... especially when pairing the chips with a beefy GPU like the RTX 4090. And, surprisingly, the Core i5-14600K leads the pack, topping ...

But it’s also exciting because it’s our first look at the mobile version of the RTX 4090, the chip that will power some of the beefiest and most expensive gaming laptops that we’ll see this ...

If you're wondering how we know it's using a cut-down RTX 4090 chip, there are two clues ... it's all done physically while the die is being processed for packaging. Don't expect the MSI GeFor ...