Next-gen GPUs look big and hungry, and that's bad news

guest · Jul 31, 2021

Next-gen GPUs look big and hungry, and that's bad news
Does anybody remember when the GTX 1080 pulled 180W?
July 31, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/90619-next-gen-gpus-look-big-hungry-bad-news.html

A hot potato: Gamers who thought that the current crop of RDNA2 and RTX 30-series GPUs were already demanding might be in for a surprise, if the most recent drop of leaks is to be believed.

Both kopite7kimi and Greymon55, established leakers in their own rights, seem to be in agreement that some of Nvidia's upcoming Lovelace GPUs will land somewhere north of the 400W range. These figures would presumably be for the top models of the RTX 4000 series, built on AD102 silicon, successors to the RTX 3080 / Ti and RTX 3090.
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Besides pushing the GPU core as hard as possible, a great deal of this power budget will come from the continued use of the hot and power-hungry GDDR6X memory on Nvidia's top models.

450-500w
— Greymon55 (@greymon55) July 29, 2021
Although the GPUs are nowhere near from release, these numbers are already concerning.
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Surely 400W+ GPUs are unlikely to trouble top end battlestations with immaculately designed cooling and kilowatt power supplies. But for regular gamers -- those using smaller cases, or on laptops, or keeping hold of an ol' reliable 500W PSU -- they're becoming a major problem.
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