There is no point fusing off 4090 permanently down to 100CU, that is just wastage of silicon. At that point Nvidia might as well save the trouble, just ship a fully enabled super clock AD103 which is at 84CU, the performance is already very close.
The full ad103 is still far from the limit. And Nvidia is trying to give china the most powerful gpu they can make. Though if the cut is truly at 100 SMs then Nvidia wants to stay within the limit even if the card is overclocked as 100 SMs still feels too step a cut.
Also Ad102 is what allows you 24gb of vram I imagine the extra 14 SMs is iceing on the cake in that case
There is no point fusing off 4090 permanently down to 100CU, that is just wastage of silicon. At that point Nvidia might as well save the trouble, just ship a fully enabled super clock AD103 which is at 84CU, the performance is already very close.
The full ad103 is still far from the limit. And Nvidia is trying to give china the most powerful gpu they can make. Though if the cut is truly at 100 SMs then Nvidia wants to stay within the limit even if the card is overclocked as 100 SMs still feels too step a cut.
Also Ad102 is what allows you 24gb of vram I imagine the extra 14 SMs is iceing on the cake in that case