It’s not the first time that rumors mention extremely greedy GPUs for the next generation Nvidia RTX Ada Lovelace. Even today, several sources continue to suggest that the high-end versions, which could be the RTX4090 and 4090Ti, could have a TGP of 600 and 800W respectively.
These figures are objectively particularly shocking, especially considering that the greens are going to make their return to TSMC to benefit from a 5nm engraving. For a while now, the leaker Kopite7kimi, has, it seems, obtained confirmation that the GPU of the RTX 4090 will end up with a TGP of 600W.
RTX 4090: a record consumption?
If we take into account the new rumors, the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace AD102 GPU will equip three graphics cards: the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, the RTX 4090 and the RTX 4080. The RTX 4080, which should have the most limited version of the AD102 GPU, will feature a 450W GPU, the RTX 4090 will have a 600W GPU and the RTX 4090 Ti will feature a GPU beyond 800W (if it ever comes out). The concern, if this information is true, would be on the power supplies of our good old PC. We know that a whole new range of products will be released with a PCI-E Gen 5.0 connector, but all the information indicates that only one of these connectors will be used in the new power supplies. However, this connector is designed to deliver a maximum of 500W-600W. This could mean that the very high end Nvidia will have to be powered by 2 PCI-E gen 5.0 connectors or by the combination of various adapters that we already know on current power supplies. Finally, these versions of the future RTX 40 could also occupy up to 4 slots given the size of their heatsink…
