No-one here really gives a damn about tdp of the 4080 imo, all they care about is the idiotic amd v nvidia bullcrap, so childish but whatever floats your rubber ducky.

DannyD:

No-one here really gives a damn about tdp of the 4080 imo, all they care about is the idiotic amd v nvidia bullcrap, so childish but whatever floats your rubber ducky.

I give a damn for several reasons. It continues a trend that is heading towards 1000W+ GPUs in less than 10years. It makes it harder to cool my GPU and other components in the case It makes my PC louder It makes GPUs bigger and heavier

Thanks Nvidia, your killing my interest in pc gaming, cause i 100% refuse to buy a gpu that is so power hungry, i game for many hours in a day, not just 1 hour then done, i dont want a gpu getting daft hot, daft sized in my pc and putting a huge dent in my electric bill, these rumors better be way wrong

southamptonfc:

I give a damn for several reasons. It continues a trend that is heading towards 1000W+ GPUs in less than 10years. It makes it harder to cool my GPU and other components in the case It makes my PC louder It makes GPUs bigger and heavier

Why give a damn about the 4080 if you're sitting on a 3080ti, just because you must have whatever's new? And you care about leccy bill? sure you do.

DannyD:

Why give a damn about the 4080 if you're sitting on a 3080ti, just because you must have whatever's new? And you care about leccy bill? sure you do.

? I already explained why I give a damn. Electricity bill is less important than the reasons I listed because I don't play for more than an hour per day. Once we get to requiring 2kW PSUs, that might change.

southamptonfc:

I give a damn for several reasons. It continues a trend that is heading towards 1000W+ GPUs in less than 10years. It makes it harder to cool my GPU and other components in the case It makes my PC louder It makes GPUs bigger and heavier

I did not know there was this much labor to owning a high end graphics card. Heavier? Really? Let's face it, the only reason most people would care is if they had to replace their power supply to accommodate the new graphics card. No one that has the money to buy a 4080 and the system accompanying it cares about their power bill. It's like buying a Ferrari and caring about mpg.

GPU manufacturers will do what they want and there's nothing we can do about it, if thats where it's heading, and it is, then so be it, no-one is forcing anyone to always have the latest and greatest.

Boavista:

I did not know there was this much labor to owning a high end graphics card. Heavier? Really?

Seriously? The problem with big heavy graphics cards is that you need a bigger case with brackets in order to support them.

People cram large GPU's in to SFF cases everyday, I have a feeling the next gen GPU's wont change that. We adapt.

DannyD:

GPU manufacturers will do what they want and there's nothing we can do about it, if thats where it's heading, and it is, then so be it, no-one is forcing anyone to always have the latest and greatest.

We get it, you don't give a damn that your PSU isn't powerful enough to run a 4080 or that in a few years time, your PC case will be the size of a fridge. But your assertion that nobody else cares, is wrong.

southamptonfc:

We get it, you don't give a damn that your PSU isn't powerful enough to run a 4080 or that in a few years time, your PC case will be the size of a fridge. But your assertion that nobody else cares, is wrong.

My point is there's nothing we can do about it haha.

The 3080 is 320W ... will the 4080 provide 30% more fps and general performance ?

Espionage724:

Most people probably don't need to be concerned about the TDP then if they're not frame capping. If I need energy efficiency, I'm not going to disable C-states and OC my CPU and run it at TDP as that's a waste of energy. But if whatever I'm doing would need that full 420W, then I'd be happy to have all that; better to have it and not need it 😛 I Vsync at 60Hz at 1080p though, so that card is beyond overkill for my use and I very likely would never hit TDP.

60 Hzer as well here at 1200p. But plan on moving to 1440p in the near future, i will stick cap at 60 though because of heat and noise.

i really don't understand everyone complaining about power consumption if you can afford and do buy one of these high end cards then it shouldn't be an issue, I would gladly use one of these 350-500watt cards but i cant afford or justify the price of the card the energy is nearly negligable on a monthly bill

DannyD:

You folks talk like this thing runs at 420 and nothing else lol

You talk like 420W is the only amount of power being consumed. Anyone who gets a GPU like this is likely going to have a powerful CPU too. So, it starts to look closer to 600W of total power consumption for a typical gaming session. Even more if you're maxing out all the hardware on an Intel system. People who get such GPUs expect a premium experience, where they're not going to restrict it. Obviously it isn't going to be an issue for everyday workloads but 420W while gaming is going to be noticed. Remember too it isn't just a matter of how much heat that builds up in the room, but cooling and cost of electricity matters too. At 400W+, you're either going to need a real beefy cooler taking up most of your expansion slots, or a loud fan (maybe both). GPUs tend to be pretty bad about dumping heat into the case, thereby compromising the cooling capacity of other components. Let's not forget too that some circuit breakers are limited to about 1200W. If you've got a window AC and a high-end PC with one of these GPUs (and chances are, even if you've got central A/C, you're gonna need another window unit), you very well could trip the breaker. That's stupid.

icedman:

i really don't understand everyone complaining about power consumption if you can afford and do buy one of these high end cards then it shouldn't be an issue, I would gladly use one of these 350-500watt cards but i cant afford or justify the price of the card the energy is nearly negligable on a monthly bill

I really don't understand how people only think about the cost of electricity. Obviously, it isn't a problem if you can afford such a GPU. There are more practical issues.

Its not the electricity costs that bug most enthusiasts in the hobby, but rather the added heat, noise that comes along with more wattage. Also dont want 3-4 slot GPUs to become the norm either to cool the damn thing.

I am in the do not care about how many watts the GPU uses.My RTX 3090 can do 500W+,RTX 3080 does 350W+. The bad part is the industry needs to satisfy people like me who buy stupid PC gear that is just faster than the last version.It is a hobby. For the people wanting to save the planet. Stop buying PC gear/cars/phones.Do your part for the planet.

unless this can be uv'd to 320w and still beat 3080 by at the very least 25-30% it's just a fail. this is bare minimum I'm talking about here.

alanm:

Its not the electricity costs that bug most enthusiasts in the hobby, but rather the added heat, noise that comes along with more wattage. Also dont want 3-4 slot GPUs to become the norm either to cool the damn thing.

I'm fine with the 3-4 Slot, but noise is indeed a big factor for me.

alanm:

Its not the electricity costs that bug most enthusiasts in the hobby, but rather the added heat, noise that comes along with more wattage. Also dont want 3-4 slot GPUs to become the norm either to cool the damn thing.

This^^ Having cards with such power envolopes is going to create a problems regarding noise and cooling. Besides those practical issues, we also have to ask ourselfes if it`s okay to use such cards due to obvious environmental costs...