Rumor mill: One of essentially the most repeated claims about Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 4000 collection (aka Ada Lovelace) is that will probably be extremely power-hungry, which is not one thing customers need at a time when power costs and the price of dwelling hold rising. But if a brand new rumor proves correct, the playing cards’ energy necessities won’t be as unhealthy as anticipated.
The information comes from common leaker Kopite7kimi, who tweeted that the ability consumption for the RTX 4070 and RTX 4080 is decrease than beforehand reported. We’d heard that the RTX 4070 would have a complete board energy restrict of 320W. Now, that determine is claimed to be 285W. The RTX 4080, in the meantime, was anticipated to eat a beastly 450W. That’s stated to have been revised all the way down to a way more manageable 320W, the identical TBP because the RTX 3080.
We can count on RTX 4080 with 320W and RTX 4070 with 285W.
— kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) August 9, 2022
Rumored energy consumption for Lovelace has been a priority amongst customers as stories hold claiming they are going to be extremely popular and hungry. We’ve heard of a doable Titan card with a TDP of 800W and high-end client fashions hitting 600W, which is how a lot the brand new PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR energy connector will be capable to ship.
Assuming this rumor is true, most individuals will possible admire the discount in energy consumption, given that it’ll imply much less electrical energy utilization, warmth, and noise, however the ensuing drop in efficiency will not be welcome. Kopite7kimi just lately stated that revised RTX 4070 specs imply the cardboard will probably be nearly as highly effective because the mighty RTX 3090 Ti. We’ll have to attend and see how a lot the decrease energy necessities have an effect on this declare.
A separate Lovelace rumor comes from @KittyYukko. They tweeted that Lovelace will embody a mannequin primarily based on a PG139-SKU340 board that makes use of the AD102-250 GPU. It’s stated to characteristic 14,848 CUDA cores and 20GB of GDDR6X reminiscence, which suggests it could possibly be an RTX 4080 Ti.
PG139-SKU340
AD102-250
14848FP32/116SM
320-bit/21Gbps 20GB— Elysian Realm (@KittyYYuko) August 9, 2022
There was extra Lovelace information earlier this week when Micron confirmed it was producing 21 Gbps and 24 Gbps GDDR6X modules possible heading for the RTX 4000 collection, the latter of which could possibly be a part of the brand new Titan or one other workstation card.
h/t: VideoCardz
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