Nvidia’s RTX 4080 graphics card could also be somewhat extra power-hungry than beforehand indicated, a minimum of in accordance with the newest nugget from the ever-spinning GPU rumor mill.

VideoCardz (opens in new tab) noticed that Kopite7kimi, a prolific leaker on the Nvidia entrance, aired new specs on Twitter for the RTX 4080 from the next-gen Lovelace vary.

Let’s make some updates. RTX 4080PG136/139-SKU360AD103-300-A19728FP3216GB 23Gbps GDDR6Xtotal card energy 340WAugust 23, 2022

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The purported specs stay the identical as these floated the final time we heard from Kopite7kimi, save for a few essential variations: the assertion that the 16GB of GDDR6X will likely be 23Gbps video reminiscence, and that the ability utilization of the graphics card is now set at 340W.

Beforehand, the ability utilization (TBP or Complete Board Energy) was rumored to be 320W, and Kopite7kimi anticipated Nvidia to make use of 21Gbps GDDR6X VRAM.

The leaker nonetheless believes that the RTX 4080 will run with 9,728 CUDA Cores, precisely as earlier than. Take all of this with the same old bucketful of seasoning, naturally.

Evaluation: Practically there with closing tuning?

Whereas the ability consumption has supposedly been bumped to 340W relatively than 320W as per the leaker’s earlier hypothesis, do not forget that each figures are approach down on earlier rumors which theorized about 420W or so. So, we’ve gone from a significantly power-hungry GPU (for an xx80 mannequin) to a a lot tamer beast, whichever approach you cube it.

After all, at this level, Nvidia remains to be actively growing these Lovelace GPUs and placing them by means of their closing testing and paces, seemingly making small tweaks fairly persistently. So it’s no shock to see energy calls for change barely right here, and certainly when the drop to 320W was leaked, we struggled to consider it’d be decreased so closely (from nicely over 400W as talked about).

Maybe Nvidia is now tuning the RTX 4080 to distinguish it farther from the 4070 – they will’t be too shut by way of uncooked grunt, and bear in mind, the 4070 is seemingly shaping as much as be an incredible card – and this energy bump is a part of guaranteeing ok efficiency with the 4080 versus the 4070 (quicker VRAM will clearly assist that trigger, too).

All of that is simply educated guesswork, naturally, however the good factor is relating to the rumors, because the RTX 4000 launch comes nearer, these specs are prone to be extra dialed in. All of which is to say, it does look an increasing number of just like the RTX 4080 received’t go too heavy on the ability utilization as was initially rumored.

The slight fly within the launch ointment is that whereas Nvidia’s next-gen graphics playing cards are set to be sprung on the world in October, we don’t know if the RTX 4080 (and 4070) is probably not delayed for a while to permit for current-gen RTX 3000 inventory to promote by means of. This might symbolize a thorny drawback for Nvidia, probably, however the hope is that we’ll see the RTX 4080 maybe in November, following the preliminary Lovelace GPU to be unleashed which can supposedly be the RTX 4090 (in October).

Speaking of the Lovelace flagship, if the RTX 4080 goes to make use of 23Gbps VRAM, then can we presume that the RTX 4090 will do as nicely? That definitely is sensible, although Kopite7kimi, when requested about this on Twitter, sounded not sure, replying (opens in new tab): “I don’t know. I hope so.”

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