It’s hard to believe that Nvidia’s RTX 3000 graphics cards launched just over a year ago, and perhaps harder still to see that the company’s GPUs are finding their way into gaming PCs faster than the previous generation, despite well-documented market factors. Chip shortages and cryptocurrency booms be damned, though, as rumours point to team green preparing to launch its lineup of RTX 4000 cards in 2022, with recent reports suggesting they could provide up to double the performance of the RTX 3000 series, at a cost.
Hardware leaker Greymon55 took to Twitter to say, “Double performance, double power consumption, can you accept it?” A follow-up tweet confirmed that they were talking about Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 4000 series, codenamed ‘Ada Lovelace.’
While generational performance increases are to be expected, the TDP (thermal design point) of Nvidia graphics cards has only increased over the past seven years. The RTX 3080 has a TDP rating of 320W and recommends a 700W PSU, meaning that the RTX 4080 may draw up to 640W and require an even larger, more expensive, power supply.
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