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Captain_Yuri said:
JEMC said:

So, just to be clear about this hypothetical card that won't launch until 12-18 months after the launch of the regular 4000 cards: should we compare this 400W limit to the 3090 Ti's 890W limit or to the actual 450-470W that the retail cards use?

Because, if it's the former, well, it's kind of useless as no 3090 Ti can reach that power limit, making the comparation a bit flawed; but if it's the later... I don't know, I don't think that the 4070 Ti looks that impressive given that will use a new and improved architecture, much, much more efficient 5nm TSMC process and feature half the VRAM for only what, around 60W less?

Well it will be hard to tell until it actually comes out but most likely, it will be the former like Kopite's other leaks. Cause logically it makes no sense for a 4070 Ti to use 400 watts with only 7680 cores when the 4080 with it's 10,000+ cores will use 420 watts. I think the 4070Ti can spike to 400 Watts like how a 3070Ti can spike to 360 Watts but on average, it should be much less like how a 3070Ti generally uses 300sh Watts on average.

So a 4070Ti will be capable of handling 400 Watts but on average, it will probably be more so around 300 Watts.

I really hope it's the max power usage, but yeah, we'll see.

Also, if there's one thing all the rumors seem to agree so far is that Ada will be more power hungry than Ampere. In that case, a 4070Ti would use more power than a 3070Ti, and if the later already uses 300-ish watts, then it makes sense for the new one to use more than that, specially with the extra, and faster, VRAM.

Bofferbrauer2 said:
JEMC said:

So, just to be clear about this hypothetical card that won't launch until 12-18 months after the launch of the regular 4000 cards: should we compare this 400W limit to the 3090 Ti's 890W limit or to the actual 450-470W that the retail cards use?

Because, if it's the former, well, it's kind of useless as no 3090 Ti can reach that power limit, making the comparation a bit flawed; but if it's the later... I don't know, I don't think that the 4070 Ti looks that impressive given that will use a new and improved architecture, much, much more efficient 5nm TSMC process and feature half the VRAM for only what, around 60W less?

If this hypothetical 4070Ti is really a 400W card, then Lovelace would be a pretty weak increase in terms of performance per watt.

I really hope this is the peak power consumption and regular use is quite a bit lower, otherwise I fear NVidia will get trounced by AMD in that domain (while probably retaining the pure performance crown).

Also, this wouldn't bode very well for mobile GPUs, as this would mean that the biggest GPU chip in laptops would only be something like a 4060 as the others would be too damn power-hungry.

As I said, I hope it's just the, how do they call it, max thermal design? The max it can use when overclocked and overvolted.

As for laptops... well, they've managed to put 12900K in some laptops. It's clear that, if they want to put something in a laptop, they'll find a way to do so.



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