Geforce RTX 4060: Allegedly with higher consumption than RTX 3070

With the upcoming graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, there should be a significant leap in performance. Both companies will exchange blows with the Geforce RTX 4000 and Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards by the end of the year, relying on both new manufacturing processes and new architectures.

RTX 4060 with over 220 watts?

But it is said that there should not only be a performance gain through improved architectures and processes, but also through a significantly increased energy consumption. The Geforce RTX 3090 Ti with its new power connector and a TDP of 450 watts is often seen as a precursor to even more hungry RTX 4000 models, which are rumored to consume up to 600 watts.

According to the well-known leaker @kopite7kimi, not only the consumption of the flagships, but also that of the weaker models should increase significantly. Specifically, he recently claimed that the new Geforce RTX 4060 will consume even more energy than an RTX 3070. For comparison: The RTX 3060 has a TDP of 170 watts, the RTX 3070 of 220 watts.

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Since the release of the Geforce RTX 4060 is still a long way off, @kopite7kimi’s claim cannot be verified at the moment. But if it actually happens that the Geforce RTX 4060 consumes more than 220 watts, that would be a significant leap.

Although Nvidia has continued to increase the consumption of the 60s graphics cards with the last generations – from 120 watts for the GTX 1060 to first 160 and now 170 watts – the now predicted additional consumption would be significantly higher. It remains to be hoped that if such high consumption really occurs, at least the efficiency will also increase and Nvidia will not use the much-cited crowbar.

Source: via Tom’s hardware / Videocardz