The ludicrously large RTX 4090 Ti is reportedly no longer happening

pcgamer.com:

A noted tech leaker is claiming the prospective Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti has now been cancelled. Though, given that it was never confirmed or announced, it's maybe a bit tough to call this a cancellation. Whatever, there will reportedly be no big boi Ada coming out over and above the existing top-end of the RTX 40-series stack. 

And, honestly, I don't think anyone is going to be crying over that, especially given the ludicrous girth of the quad-slot cooler that's been regularly doing the rounds on social media. I mean, who's got the space in their rigs for a 600W graphics card of that scale?

But that's maybe not the most interesting part of the tweet from Kopite7Kimi, as they go on to point to further versions of both the RTX 4070 and RTX 4060 coming out using higher-end GPUs than their initial iterations.

There are many reasons why Nvidia would do this—spare chips that don't quite make the grade as higher-spec cards is the most common reason—but given the company's recent launch of a memory-heavy version of its RTX 4060 Ti it's maybe possible the green team is doing so in order to slap more memory onto those two GPUs.

The tweet explicitly states that: «Some low-grade AD103 and AD106 chips will be another versions of RTX 4070 and 4060.»

The AD103 is currently only used in the RTX 4080 on the desktop, while the AD106 is running in the 8GB and 16GB versions of the RTX 4060 Ti. That potentially means we could be looking at a 16GB RTX 4070 making good use of the 256-bit bus of the RTX 4080, though expecting a 16GB version of the RTX 4060 would seem a bit optimistic given its lowly status among the current GPU stack.

The counter to this, however, is that an RTX 4070 16GB card, potentially at $699, then looks weird sitting