[SOLVED] Gaphics card power supply requirements

[welchs101]

I am looking at this GPU

"EVGA SC ULTRA GAMING NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6 PCI Express 3.0 Graphics Card Black/Gray 06G-P4-1667-KB - Best Buy "

and it says under the Power requirements section that they recommend a 500W power supply.........does this mean the GPU by itself uses this much power and that you will need additional wattage above 500W for everything else in your system so we are looking at may be 650W total? is this really how much it would need?

 

[DSzymborski]

It means total, but it presupposes a quality PSU. If you want specific advice you'll need to be specific about the exact PSU.

 

[welchs101]

thanks.....i think this is what i needed to know.....that it was total.......so i just need a good 500W psu....thanks.