06:15 | Nvidia Changing Up Silicon Die Names
It seems Nvidia is carving new names into its GPUs underneath the hood, as evidenced by HardwareLuxx member “iso0,” who purchased a GeForce RTX 3090 and disassembled it to install a water block. In the process of removing the cooler and shroud, the user discovered that the previous GA102-250-KD-A1 marking had been crossed out, and a newly etched GA102-300-A1 was underneath it.
While the reasoning for this isn’t presently clear, it seems the naming of Nvidia’s GPUs is being shuffled internally on account of the unreleased RTX 3080 Ti. It seems the RTX 3080 Ti may use some form of the GA102-250 die, or a rumored GA102-225 die. For now, however, it seems that RTX 3090 SKUs will now be shipping with the newly christened GA102-300 naming.