NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50

Seasonic has announced preliminary TDPs for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming GPUs, including the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080.

Seasonic Suggests Higher TDPs for NVIDIA’s Upcoming GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming GPU Lineup: RTX 5090 at 500W

In addition to the AMD Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” refresh models, the Seasonic Wattage Calculator also listed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” gaming GPUs. The manufacturer lists five models, including the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070, RTX 5060, and RTX 5050. As in the previous post, we should mention that these graphics cards and their associated TDPs are preliminary and should not be considered final specifications.

Starting with the top-tier GPUs, we have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 which will be replacing the RTX 4090 as the next-gen flagship. Currently, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 has a TDP of 450W and the next-gen model is said to go even higher with a TDP of 500W, an increase of 50W (+11%). NVIDIA is working on brand new cooling solutions and PCB designs for its Blackwell flagships like the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080, so if the company is indeed going for the power increase, some changes will have to be made for the new Founders Edition designs.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 is listed at a TDP of 350W, which is again an increase from the 320W TDPs of the GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER and RTX 4080. This marks a 30W increase in TDP (+9.3%). The RTX 4080 SUPER was unaffected by the core count and memory spec bump over its Non-SUPER variant, but the new Blackwell core may require additional power to deliver the improved performance.

• NVIDIA RTX 5090 – 500W TDP (+50W compared to RTX 4090 /+11%)
• NVIDIA RTX 5080 – 350W TDP (+50W compared to RTX 4080 /+9.3%)
• NVIDIA RTX 5070 – 220W TDP (+50W compared to RTX 4070 / +10%)
• NVIDIA RTX 5060 – 170W TDP (+50W compared to RTX 4060 Ti / +6.2%)
• NVIDIA RTX 5050 – 100W TDP (+50W compared to RTX 4060 / -13%)

NVIDIA RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming GPU TDP “Preliminary” (Seasonic):

Next up we have the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 which is listed at 220W and this is the same TDP as the RTX 4070 SUPER but a 20W increase (+10%) over the Non-SUPER variant. The GeForce RTX 5060 is listed at 170W, which is 55W higher than the RTX 4060 and 10W higher than the 4060 Ti. This marks the largest power increase over its predecessor, +48% over the 4060 and +6.25% over the 4060 Ti. Finally, there is the RTX 5050 which is listed at 100W and since there was no RTX 4050 in the previous lineup, we can speculate that this would be the RTX 4060 replacement while the RTX 5060 will be the RTX 4060 Ti replacement.

Besides these, there’s nothing more interesting to look at, except the fact that Seasonic mentions that all NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming GPUs will use a 16-pin connector. This should be the new 12V-2×6 design and not the older 12VHPWR design that caused a lot of issues with the RTX 4090.

Seasonic is yet another major PSU manufacturer and they have sources and links to many people, including GPU vendors, who may be telling them early on what they’re working on. But it’s also entirely possible that all of this data is just guesswork from the manufacturer, so it would be unwise to say that this is real. What we do know from previous releases, particularly Ada GPUs, is that the TDPs are way off from actual power consumption. The RTX 4090 almost never goes above 400W while gaming, despite its 450W TDP, so that’s worth considering.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” Gaming GPUs are expected to launch later this year, so expect more information around Q4 2024, as CPU launches will cover the bulk of the Q3 action.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 “Blackwell” GPU Configurations:

News source: @Olrak29_