News GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080, RTX 3070 Potential Specifications Leaked

[chickenballs]

I think your numbers are a little off.


PCIe bus is 75Watts
A six pin is 75 Watts
An eight pin is 150 Watts

So a six + eight pin PCIe card is
75 (bus) + 75 (6 pin) + 150 (eight pin) or 300 watts tbp. That's a hefty card already.

sry those are PSU requirements straight from Nvidias website

 

[nofanneeded]

sry those are PSU requirements straight from Nvidias website

Nvidia and AMD PSU requirements are always with at least 150-200 watts safe factor , for many reasons ,

One : they dont know which CPU you will use and at what OC , so they add the maximum for that.

Two : PSU vary alot , some will give you all the watts on 12V (which GPU and CPU use) and some will give you all voltage watts combined and the 12V wattage will be lower than the total advertised , thats why when you calculate the needed wattage look at the 12V only .

Bottom line : If you know what you are doing calculate the watt yourself and choose the Right PSU accordingly , If you are a Novice , follow Nvidia Recommendation blindly

 

[chickenballs]

Nvidia and AMD PSU requirements are always with at least 150-200 watts safe factor , for many reasons ,

One : they dont know which CPU you will use and at what OC , so they add the maximum for that.

Two : PSU vary alot , some will give you all the watts on 12V (which GPU and CPU use) and some will give you all voltage watts combined and the 12V wattage will be lower than the total advertised , thats why when you calculate the needed wattage look at the 12V only .

Bottom line : If you know what you are doing calculate the watt yourself and choose the Right PSU accordingly , If you are a Novice , follow Nvidia Recommendation blindly

of course that's why you never buy cheap psus especially those not well known brands

If you read my comment again... I used those numbers from Nvidia to show that the previous x80 and xx80 are quite similar when it comes to power consumption

let's hope that's just some online BS
because
GTX 780 requires 600W with one 6pin and one 8pin
GTX 980 requires 500W psu with 2x 6pin
GTX 1080 requires 500W with only one 8 pin connector

just doesn't make sense that a new xx80 on 7nm will require more power than ancient gtx 780

I love how you pros love to nitpick

https://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/21

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https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,4572-10.html

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

of course that's why you never buy cheap psus especially those not well known brands

If you read my comment again... I used those numbers from Nvidia to show that the previous x80 and xx80 are quite similar when it comes to power consumption

I love how you pros love to nitpick

https://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/21

MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming OC review (Page 7)

In this review we test the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Gaming OC edition graphics card. It is the big brother of the GTX 970 Gaming OC edition we tested last week. Armed with some more performance this model ...

www.guru3d.com

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,4572-10.html

Generally speaking, the optimal power draw for most PSUs is around the 50% mark, maybe going as high as 70%. Personally, I wouldn't want to run a PSU anywhere close to 90% load on a regular basis. Theoretically it should be 'safe' to do so, but I've had plenty of bad experiences in the past with PSUs failing at 80% or higher loads if they're subjected to those on a regular basis.

Anyway, based on what has been said by Nvidia, I fully expect power use to be higher this round than in previous releases. It's possibly just to give ray tracing hardware enough headroom to run at higher performance, it's possibly because AMD is closer than last launch. We'll hopefully get the official word tomorrow, but if an RTX 3090 has a rated board power (minus USB-C) of 350W, you can expect Nvidia's recommended PSU for such a card to be 850W -- add 100W for CPU, then another 100W for other devices, and then provide a 50% buffer.

 

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Generally speaking, the optimal power draw for most PSUs is around the 50% mark, maybe going as high as 70%. Personally, I wouldn't want to run a PSU anywhere close to 90% load on a regular basis. Theoretically it should be 'safe' to do so, but I've had plenty of bad experiences in the past with PSUs failing at 80% or higher loads if they're subjected to those on a regular basis.

Anyway, based on what has been said by Nvidia, I fully expect power use to be higher this round than in previous releases. It's possibly just to give ray tracing hardware enough headroom to run at higher performance, it's possibly because AMD is closer than last launch. We'll hopefully get the official word tomorrow, but if an RTX 3090 has a rated board power (minus USB-C) of 350W, you can expect Nvidia's recommended PSU for such a card to be 850W -- add 100W for CPU, then another 100W for other devices, and then provide a 50% buffer.

IF you really want to stick around 70% PSU power usage then dont bother wasting your money buying 7-12+ years warranty PSU .. you are wasting your money .

True that 3-6 years PSU mite fail if used 80-90% 24/7 , but not the flagships .

The true reasons behind staying below 70% is not fail ratio , but Fan noise and power loss (heat) but in no way performance when it comes to flagships PSU.

More over , the PSU has 10 years warranty let it fail after six years and replace it for free . better than paying more.