We’re mere weeks away from the anticipated launch of Nvidia’s RTX 5000 collection of gaming GPUs, and whereas we’ve seen dozens of leaks associated to the launch over the previous couple of months, that doesn’t imply there isn’t room for a couple of extra surprises. One such shock could possibly be that after months of rumors hinting that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 energy consumption could possibly be as excessive as 600W, one leaker is now suggesting that received’t be the case.
The RTX 5090 is anticipated to inherit one of the best graphics card crown from its predecessor, the RTX 4090, thanks largely to its rumored 50% enhance in CUDA cores. Nonetheless, many potential consumers can be hoping the brand new Nvidia card doesn’t stretch a lot past the 450W energy ranking of the RTX 4090 – and thus presumably require the acquisition of a brand new energy provide – and this newest leak provides them a smidge of hope.
The colossally excessive 600W energy draw determine has been speculated on the again of quite a few rumors, with essentially the most distinguished being by common tech leaker kopite7kimi on X (previously Twitter), who stated again in September that the brand new RTX 5090 energy draw could be over 550W. That already left loads of room for the ability draw ranking to fall underneath 600W, however many believed it may transcend this determine.
Nonetheless, it’s kopite7kimi once more that has now recommended the ability draw will certainly are available at underneath 600W. Responding to a reply to a different tweet in regards to the RTX 5070 that requested “5090 Nonetheless 600W?”, kopite7kimi replied, “There could also be a slight lower.”
What’s attention-grabbing about this phrasing is that it suggests the decrease determine is the truth is a change in plans on Nvidia’s half. Given how a lot lead time is required to develop graphics playing cards, it appears unlikely that Nvidia would have made a big change at this stage, however it’s potential. In any case, it’s simple to make a card run a bit slower, and thus cooler with decrease energy consumption. It’s getting extra energy out of a card at this late stage that might be significantly troublesome. Nonetheless, it’s additionally potential kopite7kimi was simply utilizing a barely odd flip of phrase to explain the scenario.
What’s additionally potential is that this modification could possibly be a token one, making the official determine 599W, as an example, simply to sneak in underneath that alarming 600W marker. If that have been the case, it wouldn’t change the potential want for many people to improve our PC energy provides, with it possible {that a} 1,000W+ provide could be stipulated to be used with these playing cards. Certainly, it’s notable simply what number of new energy provides have not too long ago been launched which can be rated to nicely past 1200W.
Finally, we’ll discover out the true scenario on the Nvidia CES 2025 keynote on January 6 the place the corporate is anticipated to unveil the brand new card. For extra on what we are able to anticipate from the brand new GPU, take a look at our RTX 5090 information, which explains the rumored card’s specs, efficiency, worth, and extra.
