Nvidia is likely to be working on a new “Ada Lovelace” generation graphics card, which may well knock out all current GPUs. This new card would need 900 W of power to operate, a record.
Nvidia is said to be building a monstrous RTX 40 series graphics card capable of consuming 900W of power, according to a Twitter leaker named @kopite7kimi. For several months now, various sources have mentioned that the RTX 4000s should offer much higher TDPs than current cardsbut this is the first we’ve heard of an even more powerful version peaking at 900W.
As a reminder, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia’s most powerful graphics card at the moment, needs “only” 450 W to operate, i.e. half as much. The leaker adds that the card will use a full AD102 SKU, 48GB of 24Gbps GDDR6X memory, but most importantly a dual 16-pin power supply configurations. We would therefore find two new PCI Express 5.0 slots, each capable of delivering up to 600W of power.
What could this mysterious Nvidia GPU with a TDP of 900 W be?
It is likely that the reference with a consumption of 900W that we are talking about is the RTX 4090 Ti, which is supposed to be launched later. It could also bea new version Titana series that Nvidia had somewhat set aside in recent years.
Anyway, with such energy consumption, we imagine that the players’ bills will explode. We can also expect the board to demand nearly 1500W of power, which would be unprecedented. It will therefore certainly bea high-end GPU aimed at professionals and not consumers, which would require a massive PSU, not to mention huge cooling.
The next generation of graphics cards from Nvidia engraved in 5 nm, called Ada Lovelace, should be released later this year. Until Nvidia officially confirms the specs and models it will launch, it’s all speculation. However, what little we know seems quite exciting from a performance point of view, but less for the wallet.
In fact, there is another full-fat AD102 SKU with 900W TGP, 48G 24Gbps GDDR6X, 2*16pin and higher frequency.
But no one knows whether it will become an actual product. Because the test board of AD102 has more than two 16pin connectors, so everything is possible.– kopite7kimi (@ kopite7kimi) April 27, 2022