NVIDIA released the Hopper architecture GPU for professional computing at the end of March, and in the second half of the year will bring the Ada Lovelace architecture GPU for the consumer market, which will be applied to graphics cards including GeForce RTX gaming cards and RTX L series graphics cards. As successors to the Ampere family of RTX 3090 and RTX A6000, the RTX 4090 and RTX L6000 are expected to receive decent performance improvements.
NVIDIA released RTX 3090 Ti graphics card in March, the public version of 450W TBP power consumption and some non-public models up to 516W power consumption, the traditional 8pin power supply has been difficult to meet the requirements of the times, NVIDIA Yevich updated the PCIe 5.0 external power supply interface, single line up to 600W power output.
Earlier revelations said that the AD102 GPU has a TBP of up to 850W, and it is believed that under the optimization of Nvidia, the power consumption of the public flagship is expected to be controlled within 600W. In terms of workstations, it is rumored that NVIDIA RTX L8000/L8000 will also use the AD102 core, and it is expected that TBP power consumption will be 320W, and the power consumption will reach 375W when accelerating.
Recently, Moore's Law Is Dead talked about the power consumption of new graphics cards in the video, and they believe that both gamers and workstation users should be mentally prepared for the 600W TBP power consumption of a single card.
In order to better control the temperature of the RTX 4090 graphics card, the heatsink of the graphics card may adopt more new technologies, including on-board fans, water-cooled mix-and-match, etc. The TBP of the RTX L6000 is more relaxed, so it is possible to use a double-slot thickness heat sink and a conventional cooling fan.
Along with the PCIe 5.0 power supply interface is the ATX 3.0 power supply standard, because the PCI-SIG allows peak power consumption to soar to three times, which means that the full load of 600W PCIe 5.0 system with 1800W power supply, so that players can afford to buy a graphics card, can not pay the electricity bill.
Editor's comments: In fact, the most graphics cards on the game platform are still gtX 1060 released in 6 years, and there are only a few high-end graphics cards, not to mention the flagship RTX 3090, so ordinary users do not need to worry too much about the problem of insufficient power. At present, the power output of high-end power supplies is generally around 1000W, if you want to sell RTX 4090 this "electric tiger", I believe that the power supply is also a big expense.