That’s almost 1W per dollar!
Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W
Submitted 4 days ago by Allah@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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Infernal_pizza@lemm.ee 4 days ago
tburkhol@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I, for one, would rather just see them use a couple of 2/0 AWG welding cables, bolted onto a 5mm copper plate on the board. If you need 200 amps, make it look like 200 amps.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 4 days ago
PCI bus bar on top.
MTK@lemmy.world 4 days ago
With 2.4kw you can just use it as a space heater, and a strong one at that!
boaratio@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Good luck plugging that into an outlet without tripping a fuse under load.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
10A. That’s fine.
boaratio@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not trying to be a 1-upper, but you need to also include the power the computer and CPU use as well. Not to mention the age of the outlet and how many times a plug has been inserted/removed from it. The contact resistance can be pretty bad depending on how old the outlet is.
vane@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Electric companies after every nvidia generation.
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3090 TDP 350 W
4090 TDP 450 W
5090 TDP 575 WChronographs@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Nvidia has been pretty shit for the last few generations but this is clearly just an engineering prototype for testing, they obviously weren’t trying to make a 2400w 5090.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
don’t put it past nvidia.
they gotta fulfill those unrealized promises about native 4k gaming somehow.
RejZoR@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
If they put 2x 12pin HighPower connectors and they wouldn’t be burning up because each would be delivering just 300W. But they explicitely don’t allow board partners to do it themselves, because NVIDIA is bunch of controlling assholes.
TBi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They could even used it as part of marketing. “So powerful it needs 2 connectors”
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Christ, not exactly a model of power efficiency is it?
Also, if it’s drawing that much power, how could it possibly dissipate all the heat? It must sound like an F-16.
I expect this card will be a hard pass from me…
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Or maybe it just delivers 600W without burning the ever-loving hell out of the connectors.
AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 4 days ago
Almost has to be. 2400W would put it completely outside the consumer market. Consumer PSUs don’t go that high. Home power outlets don’t go that high unless you have special electrical work done. I can hardly imagine what a cooling system for a nearly 3KW system would look like.
FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
In Europe, this is no biggie
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
nVidia cares less and less about the consumer market every year. We basically only exist to buy the factory fourths so that the overall yield of any given wafer can be maximized.
2400 for a single component is still rather insane even by server room standards. But 12 or even 18 load balanced? That starts to “make sense” for higher end data centers or even on-prem server rooms at the more tech oriented companies.
donuts@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yup, I presume this is their answer to the cables burning. Divide the wattage between more wires
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 4 days ago
The real answer to the burning cables is to divide the wattage between the six wires on a single connector, which most of the 50-series cards don’t do that. That results in ~15 amps across a single scorching cable.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
They could have just used normal 8 pin connectors in that case.