POWER OF TEN NVIDIA PC

POWER OF TEN NVIDIA PC

And needless to say, you don’t want to run some cheapo no-name brand PSU with a high-end Nvidia card, not that any PC enthusiast would dream of doing so. On the whole, this is definitely an area where you want to err on the side of caution, and speaking of that, it’s worth noting that even PSUs which carry the same wattage rating can be of different quality. (Intel’s fastest Alder Lake chip, the 12900KS, can pull around 240W at max boost for example, which may not quite be up there with a top-end Nvidia GPU, but it’s still a lot). Where it gets complicated is that you may need more wattage depending on the rest of your PC components, and principally the CPU, if you have a really beefy processor that has major power requirements of its own.

However, it delivers what’s promising to be a pretty big leap in performance relative to the extra power consumption.Īs you may realize, these PSU requirements aren’t quite as simple as they seem on the face of it. Analysis: Don’t forget the power-related nuances on top of all thisĪs Nvidia points out, these next-gen GPU power demands are not that much different to the asks made by current-gen RTX 3000 models, namely 750W for the RTX 30 – though obviously the RTX 4090 flagship needs a bit more juice.

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