Chip manufacturing isn't perfect and every wafer a foundry churns out will have dies in it that can't be used for their originally intended purpose. That doesn't mean they can't be used at all, though, and in the case of Nvidia's hulking AD102 GPU, normally used in RTX 4090 graphics cards, MSI is buying defective ones and using them in at least one of its
The standard card uses a cut-down AD103 chip, normally housed in RTX 4080 cards, whereas the original RTX 4070 Ti uses an AD104. Both the AD103 and AD104 are much smaller chips than the massive AD102, and even though Nvidia has disabled nearly 10,000 shaders, just under a hundred 100 ROPs, half the L2 cache, and four memory controllers, there's still an awful lot of silicon there.
Don't expect the MSI GeFor…oh, I'm not writing that out all over again…Black OC card to offer any more performance than a standard RTX 4070 Ti Super, even with its higher power limit. As anyone with an RTX 40-series graphics card will tell you, Nvidia's Ada Lovelace chips don't really run much faster with extra power—they just get hotter.