Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 power figures just leaked, might still melt

There’s simply been what seems to be like a mammoth leak of Nvidia’s upcoming RTX “Blackwell” collection of GPUs, which apparently reveals the precise names, energy necessities, and energy connector configurations of the complete graphics card lineup. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 energy leak, comes through energy provide producer Seasonic, with the corporate inadvertently revealing the small print on its web site’s energy provide wattage calculator.

With the RTX 5090 absolutely anticipated to be the brand new greatest graphics card you should buy when it launches both later this 12 months or early subsequent 12 months, there’s understandably quite a lot of hype surrounding its efficiency, worth, and energy. We’ve had loads of hints concerning the potential efficiency of Nvidia‘s newest GPU, and have loads of fears about its worth, however that is the primary robust signal we’ve had of its energy necessities.

The leak, which continues to be seen on Seasonic’s website, was noticed by X (previously Twitter) consumer @Olrak29_ and divulges the title, TDP, and energy plug configuration of all of the playing cards within the new RTX 50 lineup. TDP stands for thermal design energy and is the trade normal for outlining the anticipated thermal energy output of a part. It’s not a exact measure of the height energy draw of an element, but it surely offers a normal sense of its utilization.

All it’s important to do to see these names and numbers is head to the positioning and choose any CPU on the wattage calculator. Then, while you get to the GPU selector display. you’ll see the complete RTX 5000 collection listed proper on the prime of the drop-down menu. Choose any of those choices and the ultimate wattage calculation in your energy provide reveals the cardboard’s title, its TDP, and energy plug configuration.

The complete vary of recent Nvidia GPU specs retrieved utilizing this software is proven beneath. On this chart, we’ve additionally famous how a lot the TDP of every GPU has modified relative to its RTX 40 collection counterpart.

Probably the most apparent facets of this leak is that the complete lineup of playing cards, aside from the RTX 5050 (which doesn’t want any additional energy connector), is proven as utilizing a single 12VHPWR connector. Sure, that’s the one which saved inflicting RTX 4090 fires because of the connector changing into overloaded when not seated accurately. With the RTX 5090 displaying as consuming one other 50W additional energy over the RTX 4090, hearth would seemingly stay a significant concern with these top-end playing cards.

In the meantime, for the remainder of the lineup, it’s attention-grabbing to notice that even the lower-range playing cards nonetheless use this connector. Whereas Nvidia does use the 12VHPWR connector on playing cards similar to its personal RTX 4070 Founders Version, most third-party playing cards have chosen to as an alternative use an older eight-pin PCIe energy connector for this comparatively low-power card.

As such, it’s attainable that both Nvidia has turn into extra forceful with guaranteeing all playing cards primarily based on its GPUs conform to utilizing the brand new connector, or we are going to nonetheless proceed to see manufacturers utilizing the previous connectors, and the info on Seasonic’s website is only a guideline (we suspect it’s the latter).

This leak additionally reveals that the complete lineup of playing cards sees a step up in TDP, which can look like an apparent change when you concentrate on the anticipated improve in efficiency that we hope will include these playing cards. Nevertheless, part of the character of bettering manufacturing expertise is that newer chip designs might be extra environment friendly. As such, we wouldn’t have been in any respect shocked to see a number of the RTX 50 vary keep on the similar TDP and even drop barely.

For essentially the most half, these will increase in TDP aren’t of all that a lot consequence, however the 55W uptick within the RTX 5060 in comparison with the RTX 4060 is a giant leap. For an entry-level graphics card to extend its TDP by 48% may affect considerably on a PC’s capability to ship sufficient juice from its energy provide, or present sufficient cooling.

All advised, with a leak this important, indicators are constructing that the RTX 5090 launch date is getting ever nearer. It’s nonetheless not a lifeless certainty that the RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 will arrive this 12 months, however indicators are trying good that in the event you’re hoping for a top-tier GPU improve earlier than the 12 months is out, you’ll be in luck.

For extra on what we anticipate from the RTX 5090, try our RTX 5090 information, and you may as well learn about our prime picks for one of the best PC case and greatest PC followers, to be sure you’re all set to maintain your new GPU cool, regardless of how a lot energy it consumes.