The price of energy is soaring, it is an irrefutable fact. Well, in the midst of a crisis where we’re paying the maximum price for it, from oil to gas, now graphics card makers are coming in and putting the icing on the cake with their new architectures, where according to what’s been leaked , the mid-range of the new models, with RTX4060 in the lead, they will shoot the consumption. What specific numbers are we talking about?
It is not that this is a coincidence as such, it has been thought for many years and the roadmap is not going to stop because the world needs more energy sustainability, far of the. The war between NVIDIA, AMD and Intel will now be something without a quarter where not even consumption will be respected despite all the problems it brings to the user and the best example will start with the new GPUs.
NVIDIA RTX 4060, higher power consumption than an RTX 3070
The paradox is what we were talking about at the time: despite the excessive increase in consumption, the new GPUs will perform better because the jump in performance is even greater. But this does not mean that they will charge more fees on your electricity bill, since everything indicates that NVIDIA intends to make a difference with AMD and especially with Intel at all costs, never better said.
I don’t care about the actual release date. I’m just curious about the performance of the RTX 4060 which consumes more power than the RTX 3070.
– kopite7kimi (@kopite7kimi) June 5, 2022
As you can see, the famous leaker has revealed what many of us have already sensed: even the mid-range will not be spared from the increase in consumption as such. The RTX 4060 will swallow more energy than the RTX 3070, that is to say, it will exceed the 220 watt mark without, for the moment, setting a ceiling.
- RTX4060: +220W
- RTX 3060: 170W
- RTX 2060: 160W
- GTX 1060: 120W
- GTX 960: 120W
- GTX 760: 170W
This is something we have seen over the years, hence Kepler with its GTX700 There have only been increases, with Maxwell graphics being the only real turning point in the consumption section, and the RTX 4060 will unfortunately be no exception.
Release dates gradually pushed back
While last week we saw that NVIDIA is fast towards producing the RTX 40 series, the reality is that it will not produce them by the end of the summer as was announced at the beginning. New information indicates that after knowing the processes and their supposed dates, the software involved, the new launch dates (not presentation) will be as follows:
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090: October 2022 release
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080: November 2022 release
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070: Release December 2022
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060: CES 2023 energy presentation
The factors that would have caused NVIDIA to delay this new series of graphics cards are not only due to the delays it is facing, but there are two other factors that we already named at the time and are now resonating behind the scenes: China and the RTX 30.
China’s logistics and trade blockade, with all the reasons we’ve seen so far, is a key factor causing half the world to lag behind in almost every sector. But also, the RTX 30s are not selling in a market now saturated with models that are starting to drop in second-hand prices and where miners are launching all the models, not counting those who will switch to these new RTX 40s. .
Seen from this angle, the NVIDIA RTX 4060 have a consumption greater than 220 watts This is surely the least important thing for us, since if the rumors end up being confirmed, it will not only be this value that will go up, since the price seems to be consistent.