- Nvidia is developing an RTX 5090 Ti to surpass its current flagship, despite lacking direct competition from other manufacturers.
- The new model may feature roughly 5% more CUDA cores than the standard 5090, using a modified GB202 chip.
- Power requirements are expected to be massive, with estimates ranging from 700W to 750W, and some prototypes reportedly drawing even more.
For more than a year, the RTX 5090 has been the most powerful card. While it has no competition from AMD or Intel, NVIDIA isn’t satisfied with only this top-tier card; an even more powerful version is on the way. NVIDIA has now confirmed it is building an RTX 5090 Ti, with details on its possible performance, high power consumption, and release date revealed.
The Blackwell architecture of the RTX 50 series brought few changes or enhancements over the RTX 40 series, and the only new feature was Multi Frame Generation (MFG). Beyond that, we saw a performance boost that corresponded to increased power consumption; that is, we gained up to 30% more performance with the RTX 5090 at the cost of consuming 125W more than the RTX 4090.
A week ago, we learned that NVIDIA would not be satisfied with the RTX 5090 as the most powerful card and would instead release the RTX 5090 Ti in the second half of 2026. According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Nvidia has been testing the RTX 5090 Ti, also known as the Blackwell Titan, since the first half of 2025.
If this is true, it means it has been part of the company’s plans from the beginning, and we now have a more precise estimate of its performance, power consumption, and even its expected release date. Regarding its features, it is stated that it would use a reduced GB202 chip, giving it 5% more CUDA Cores than the RTX 5090, meaning 17,152 or 17,216 CUDA Cores, which falls within that range.
In terms of power consumption, the next RTX 5090 Ti is a true beast, with speculations of a TDP of 700 to 750W, which is an additional 100-150W on top of the already powerful RTX 5090. The 750W figure would be the minimum, although there were unlocked prototypes that consumed more than 1000W.
While we don’t have actual photographs of the RTX 5090 Ti, someone who tried it last year stated that it was massive and required “both hands to hold it.” Just thinking about the air cooling system required to handle such high power usage gives you an idea. With its high power consumption and minor increase in core count, the RTX 5090 Ti could provide up to 10% more performance than the RTX 5090 at its basic TDP.
It may seem like a minor improvement for a graphics card with the Ti or TITAN name, but the final version is expected to outperform the RTX 5090 by 15-20%. We’ve previously seen that graphics cards like the Blackwell RTX 6000, despite having many more cores (24,064 CUDA cores), aren’t considerably faster in gaming than the RTX 5090, so this Ti or TITAN should lie somewhere in the middle or be somewhat faster in games due to its higher clock speed. It is expected to be released in the third quarter of 2026, or by the end of the current year.
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