Graphics card as most of the computer host in the most power consumption components, basically determine how much power you need to use, and since the release of AMD and NVIDIA two of the latest generation of graphics cards, power consumption is rubbing up, starting with a power supply of more than 500W.
According to the previous news, this year NVIDIA will launch a new RTX 40 series graphics card, and the performance of the RTX 40 series graphics card will usher in further improvement.
Then some people will worry that if the performance is improved, will the power consumption also usher in a "huge increase"?
Congratulations, you guessed right, recently foreign websites broke the news that for the highest specification card emperor RTX 4090/4090 Ti in the RTX 40 series, even a 1000W power supply can not meet its requirements, at least 1200W power supply is required.
Previously, it was announced that the large core number of the 5nm Lovelace architecture will be AD102, there will be as many as 12 GPC (graphics processing clusters), 72 TPC (texture processing clusters), 144 SM (streaming multiprocessors), and each SM contains 128 stream processors (CUDA cores), then the overall number of up to 18432 stream processors, compared with the current ampere architecture GA102 core of 10752 cores increased by 71%. Double overall performance.
However, the performance has soared at the same time, but also brought a surge in power consumption, after the news said that its Total Graphics Power (full card power consumption) will not be less than 550W, higher than the current 200W.
Of course, it is foreseeable that users who can afford to buy RTX 4090 graphics cards will certainly not be bad in other aspects of hardware configuration, and with i9/R9 level CPU, DDR5 memory and other hardware, a top gaming PC may be equipped with at least 1500W of superpower power.
Of course, such a computer should allow players to increase the temperature of the room by a few degrees when playing in winter, put the chassis at their feet, and even save money for an electric heater, which is very user-friendly.
In addition, in recent days, the running score of the RTX 3070 Ti mobile graphics card has also been exposed.
Recently, the running score of a MSI notebook appeared on Geekbench, which is equipped with a 12th-generation Core i7-12700H processor and is equipped with an RTX 3070 Ti mobile graphics card, and the OpenCL running score of the graphics card is about 124,000 points.
According to the Geekbench OpenCL running score list, the performance of this RTX 3070 Ti notebook graphics card is very close to the RTX 3080 mobile version.