GeForce RTX 4000, we return to talk of high consumption: 600W the ‘new normal’?

the future NVIDIA video cards they will be very powerful but also very energy hungry. Indiscretions to this effect had already leaked in recent weeks, and for a moment we thought it was a bad joke, but week after week the leakers continue to paint a not very reassuring picture.

According to the leaker kopite7kimithe future NVIDIA video card of class “XX90” it might be accompanied by a TGP at 600W. Another leaker, Greymon55shows three possible values ​​for as many cards: we are talking about 450W for the hypothetical RTX 4080, 600W for the RTX 4090 and over 800W for the RTX 4090 Ti – it must be said, however, that there is a lot of skepticism on the latter value.

There will be a need for a decidedly massive cooling system …

It is clear that rumors must always be taken with caution, but at the same time if the information leaked from the data theft to NVIDIA is to be considered correct, the transition to the 5 nanometers of TSMC will do little to contain the hot spirits of a GPU like AD102 predicted to have 18432 CUDA cores, 71% more CUDA cores compared to Ampere (GA102), plus a large amount of cache.

Dissipating 600W could be a real challenge for NVIDIA partners, for this reason the use of liquid cooling solutions in the high end is not excluded, even if it is not NVIDIA tradition. As for nutrition it will be mandatory switching to the 16-pin PCIe 5.0 connector capable of carrying 600W (in addition to the 75W conveyed through the PCIe slot).

The youtuber echoes the rumors spread by the two leakers Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID), according to which NVIDIA initially aimed to create a flagship card with a TGP of 400-450W, but would then raise the bar to better respond to the performance of future AMD RDNA 3 GPUs in the field of rasterization.

In his video MLID speculates on the possible performance of the new GeForce RTX 4000 cards, with the RTX 4080/4090 that could be up to 80-110% faster in rasterization and twice as fast in ray tracing than the RTX 3090 Ti (in arrival at the end of the month). Among the other solutions mentioned, the GeForce RTX 4060 stands out, for which performance similar to the current RTX 3080 with rasterization and results at the level of the RTX 3090 Ti in the management of ray tracing are assumed.