Most powerful gpus: Best Graphics Cards — January 2023

Nvidia may be readying the most powerful GPU we’ve ever seen

If you thought that the rumored Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 sounds like one beastly GPU, Nvidia might still surprise you. Allegedly, the company is readying a graphics card to end all graphics cards. A true monster — or a titan, if you will.

According to a new leak, the full-fledged power of the AD102 GPU is even greater than expected. We don’t know when, or even if, it will make it to market, but assuming it does, it will be the ultimate graphics card with a staggering set of specifications.

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— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) July 25, 2022

Today’s especially juicy round of leaks comes from Kopite7kimi, a well-known Twitter tipster with a proven track record. We’ve already heard rumors about this graphics card, and it’s worth noting that it doesn’t have a name just yet. Nvidia could stick to the current-gen naming convention and go with RTX 4090 Ti, or it could go back and call it a Titan. Kopite7kimi aptly refers to it as “The Beast.” For the purpose of this report, we will call it the RTX 4090 Ti.

The beastly GPU will, allegedly, require a new board design. Kopite7kimi notes that it will use the PG137 as opposed to the PG139 that the base RTX 4090 is rumored to utilize. It could possibly come with triple fans — the specs definitely warrant the extra cooling, as does the enormous power consumption.

The leaker predicts that the GPU has a total board power (TBP) of 800 watts, meaning that is the maximum power it may need from the power supply. Add to that one of the best CPUs and other components, and you’ll easily need a 1,200W PSU, as was previously predicted in regards to this model. Nvidia might need to introduce dual 16-pin power connectors to the reference model.

Moving on to other specs, the graphics card is rumored to sport a total of 142 streaming multiprocessors (SMs), which translates to 18,176 CUDA cores — an 11% upgrade from the RTX 4090. What’s perhaps even more impressive is the memory size, which is rumored to be doubled from the base RTX 4090, adding up to a total of 48GB of GDDR6X memory. That’s a number previously unheard of, and the large capacity is combined with an impressive bandwidth of 1.1TB/s.

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One can only speculate as to how much this rumored GPU would cost, but it’s safe to say it wouldn’t be cheap. With these specifications as well as its rumored 4K gaming prowess, Nvidia’s RTX 4090 Ti would most likely blow the competition out of the water, securing a spot atop the list of the best graphics cards.

It is rumored that Nvidia will only release a single graphics card this year, with the rest of the RTX 40-series lineup to follow in 2023. If that proves to be true, we may not see this gaming monster for many more months — but if it does make it to market, it will be a beastly GPU made for enthusiasts with deep pockets.

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NVIDIA just released the most powerful GPU of all time

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Nvidia just announced the Titan V, the most powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) of all time.

This isn’t the type of graphics card your gamer friends all bought on Black Friday, either. This is a graphics card powerful enough for use on research in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

20-core CPU, 64-core GPU, up to 128 GB unified memory. Apple Introduces Mac Studio — The World’s Most Powerful Desktop Computer

Apple today unveiled its most powerful desktop computer, the Mac Studio. The company calls it the most powerful desktop PC in the world, which is not far from the truth: with dimensions of about three Mac Minis, the novelty outperforms much more powerful full-format PCs in terms of performance. For example Mac Pro.

nine0002 All thanks to the new single-chip systems Apple M1 Max and M1 Ultra. We will tell you more about their architecture and features in a separate news article, we immediately note that the top SoC, M1 Ultra, has a 20-core central processor and a 64-core graphics processor connected to 128 GB of unified memory. For comparison, the GeForce RTX 3090 has 24 GB of memory.

Apple calculates that Mac Studio with M1 Max base SoC is 2.5x faster than 27-inch iMac with 10-core Core i9 processorand 50% faster than a Mac Pro with a 16-core Xeon CPU. This is in terms of CPU performance. In terms of GPU, Mac Studio on the M1 Max is 3.4 times faster than the Radeon Pro 5700 XT. And Mac Studio on the M1 Ultra is 60% faster than a Mac Pro with a 28-core Xeon processor in terms of CPU and 80% faster than a Mac Pro with a Radeon Pro W6900X graphics card in terms of GPU. Note that Mac Studio is much smaller than Mac Pro.

This ultra-powerful mini PC is equipped with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 adapters, as well as a large number of ports: four Thunderbolt 4 and two USB-A on the rear panel, and two USB-C on the front panel. In the version on the SoC M1 Ultra, USB-C ports with Thunderbolt 4 interface are displayed on the front panel (that is, the top model has six Thunderbolt 4 ports). In addition, there is an RJ-45 connector, an HDMI video output, a standard headphone jack and an SDXC card slot on the front panel. nine0003

Apple Mac Studio is made in a very compact all-metal case. Length and width — 195. 5 mm each, height — 94 mm. In terms of dimensions, it is even slightly smaller than three Mac minis on the SoC M1.

The Apple Mac Studio uses a rather interesting cooling system with two large (tall) turbine-type fans that draw in air from the bottom of the case, drive it through the hardware platform components, and exhaust it from the rear through a large number of pinholes on the back panel. Apple claims that such a system works very quietly, and in most tasks Mac Studio will not be heard at all. nine0003

The novelty will go on sale in the US on March 18th. The cost of the basic version with SoC M1 Max, 32 GB of unified memory and a 512 GB SSD is $ 2,000. The most affordable version on the SoC M1 Ultra with a 1TB SSD and 64GB of unified memory is $4,000. Given the performance and compactness, even at such prices, the novelty has no equal.

14-inch MacBook Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro — Apple (UK)

The superpower of professionals.

We’ve built the most powerful MacBook Pro ever. And it’s a monster. The super-fast M1 Pro and M1 Max are the first Apple chips designed specifically for professionals. They deliver phenomenal performance and deliver amazingly long battery life. Add to that a stunning Liquid Retina XDR display, superior camera and sound, and more ports for professional work. Everything is possible with this laptop. nine0003

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M1 Max is an incredibly powerful chip for professional grade notebooks. It features a 10-core CPU, up to 32-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. The graphics processing speed and memory bandwidth of this chip is twice that of the M1 Pro. Video encoding is up to 2x faster because the M1 Max has two media processors for encoding and a separate media processor for decoding, and two ProRes accelerators help with multiple video streams. nine0003

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Unbridled power and incredible battery life — that’s the real magic of Apple chips. With them, you can compile up to four times more code in Xcode ¹⁹ and spend up to two times more image processing in Lightroom Classic ²⁰ before the battery is completely drained. And the MacBook Pro maintains a high level of performance even when unplugged. nine0003

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Cooling is what you need. Advanced cooling components deliver 50 percent more air even at low fan speeds. And when performing many everyday tasks, they do not turn on at all — Apple chips work so efficiently. nine0003

Volumes at speed. The new MacBook Pros feature SSDs up to 8TB with incredible read speeds of 7. 4GB/s ²³—more than 2x faster than the previous generation. ²⁴ With this disc, you can instantly open 8K videos and store hundreds of thousands of RAW photos.

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The new MacBook Pro is the first to feature a system-on-a-chip designed specifically for professional notebooks. These laptops often use high-power processors, discrete GPUs, and many individual, specialized chips. Here, the CPU, GPU, I/O controllers, and the Neural Engine are part of a single system on a chip with shared memory. As a result, the M1 Pro and M1 Max not only easily handle resource-intensive tasks that were previously unavailable for laptops, but also allow you to work incredibly long without recharging. nine0003

Linked by one chip. Many computers copy the same data multiple times over slow interfaces. But not the new MacBook Pro. Its CPU and GPU share the same memory. This means that all components of the chip directly access the memory and the data stored in it, without copying them, and therefore everything works faster and more efficiently.