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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53564

News broke yesterday of NVIDIAâ??s alleged launch schedule for its upcoming GeForce RTX 40 Series, including a supposed CES 2023 unveiling date for a newly mentioned (but predictable) GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card. Popular leaker @kopite7kimi has now taken to Twitter to share a little insight on the lower mid-range GP

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

Looking at CPU power usage you can deduce that those power values are usually max load. My CPU uses 230W, but actually in gaming it's at ~40% ish usage and uses under 60W.
Same with GPUs, and everything else.
If you buy (just an example) 3090 to play CS:GO at 1080p @ 144fps (144Hz) enable vsync, or limit framerate to 144, 3090 will be at ~20% usage and use maybe 50W.

Also, everyone buys at least 40% "more" PSU than PC will need (max power usage of PC ~350W, PSU bought is 600+ W ) so I don't see a problem.
Electricity wise, I compared prices over the world, but lets take UK as an example, a year of gaming costs ~30 Pounds. So don't give that electricity bill crap.

El_Coyote · Elite Member Joined: 09 Jun 2004 Posts: 611

depends.
Where i am 30 pounds gets me less than 100 kwh in prime time.

So if I run my computer at a very optimistical 50% of psu capability with your calculation, i'll have 150 hours a year of gaming.
This does not include monitor or sound system power usage.
My high refresh qhd+ monitor also doubles as a heat radiator (joke, but really it gets hot).
30 quid really doesn't last me long with the current energy situation.

(also I don't play cs:go so using a deckade old game as benchmark isnt really great.)

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2652

here, calculations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB0qrUE1sck&list=FLcCgbWIvxim5lp1XKeDYVsQ&index=1

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lorcro2000 · Elite Member Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 469

I'm fortunate enough that paying for electricity even with the current insanely overblown prices (we need governments to step up and take over the whole damned sector, and run it at cost instead of letting profiteers suck the life out of everyone) is something I can do.

I'm still not thrilled with the developent. A high end 4000 series will probably require a massive cooling solution and still run hot, and produce a lot of waste heat into the house that also has to be dealt with.

More cooling means either a LOT larger, or a lot noisier, to deal with the heat. The Noctua collaboration GPU that was released recently is stupidly thick and has a gigantic heatsink, and that's on a current generation card. Because it has to be to cool silently.

Constant power increases on GPUs is not great.