NVIDIA RTX 40 Series Might Get 800 Watts TBP
The upcoming flagship RTX 4000 series processor will become power hungry. The TBP is now rumored to be 800 Watts for the board design. Mind you, that's not the actual GPU power consumption, but the maximum power delivery a board can handle.
Kopite7kimi mentions the new SKUs for the new RTX 40 series GPUs will be AD102, AD103, AD104, and AD106. Besides the top AD102, every SKU will be available in the consumer segment. The first in line, AD102, is the most power-hungry SKU, with an 800 Watt maximum TBP. Earlier it was rumored that the AD103 GPU is limited to 450 Watts on desktop and 175 Watts on mobile. The desktop version of the AD104 processor would be limited to 400 Watts, the mobile version is still limited to 175 Watts. Furthermore, the AD106 SKU has a desktop power limit of 260 Watts and a mobile power limit of 140 Watts.
In times of rising energy bills and energy shortages, we do wonder if this is the trend NVIDIA needs to be pursuing. I can't stress enough the TBP is not TGP, total graphcuis power. So the values will be a lot lower, but still indications are that these cards will likely to be amped up.
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Meanwhile 980Ti can use 400W and run at 135% performance compare to stock

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Then wait for the 4050. :p
I have a 250w gpu now and the noise and heat is insane when there is 30+ ambient temperature. I can only imagine 350-450w gpus like a heater being turned on in the summer.
That's exactly my 3070 limit with UV/oc. Runs at 65C at 100% load when 30C ambient with fans on medium.
I'd say it's ok. It's not exactly quiet because I have a full front mesh case but not too bad.
I think 350W after UV should be achievable and reasonable to cool with the announced next gen.
Those 800W is probably for the 4090ti running factory voltage and OC.
4080 is rumoured around 400W so 350W with UV looks to be the deal for me.
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What is it for RTX 3090 as reference ?
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I already have.
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I'll simply unvolt the crap out of the RTX 4060 if it has a TDP of 320 Watts, i don't care if that reduces it's perfomance.
My limit is around 220 watts for noise and heat.
Radeon Fury under-powered to -50% runs at 90% performance while only comsuming ~200W max... Long gone are the days when CPUs and GPUs had reasonable TDPs and some OCing headroom :'(