I remember when the first rumors about the consumption of the GeForce RTX 40 started to appear, we saw numbers that honestly seemed like real nonsense to me. I understand that sometimes you need to increase power to increase performance, but to think that NVIDIA could launch a GeForce RTX 4080 with a TGP of 450 watts and a GeForce RTX with a TGP of 600 or even 800 watts, as some sources say it’s pure madness.

The reason is very simple, so high consumption limit the possibility of many users accessing these graphics cards without having to change the power source, and for NVIDIA it would be almost like shooting itself in the foot. Those of you who read us regularly already know my point, I told you that at the time we should be careful with rumors and that the consumption figures we saw did not make sense because they were absurdly high.

The fact is that one of the most famous sources in the world has now launched a new rumor that literally says that “we can expect a TGP of 320 watts on the GeForce RTX 4080 and 285 watts on the GeForce RTX 4070”. These numbers are much more reasonable than what we’ve seen before and reduce the TGP of both models, which according to previous rumors were supposed to be placed at 450 watts and 300 watts.

For comparison purposes, I remind you that the GeForce RTX 3080 has a TGP of 320 watts and the GeForce RTX 3070 is at 220 watts. If this information is confirmed, The GeForce RTX 4080 would have practically the same consumption as the GeForce RTX 3080and the GeForce RTX 4070 would have higher power consumption (65 watts more) than the GeForce RTX 3070.

Possible specifications of GeForce RTX 4080

• AD103 GPU at 5nm.
• 9,728 shaders at 2.5 GHz.
• 304 texturing units.
• 214 raster units.
• 304 fourth generation tensor cores.
• 76 cores of the third generation RT.
• 16 GB of GDDR6X memory at 21 GHz.
• 256-bit bus.
• 50 TFLOPs of performance in FP32.
• TGP 320W.
• Possible price: $699-$799.

His performance would be much better than GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and would double its ray tracing performance.

Possible specifications of GeForce RTX 4070

• AD104 GPU at 5nm.
• 7,680 shaders at 2.5 GHz.
• 240 texturing units.
• 160 raster units.
• 304 fourth generation tensor kernels.
• 60 cores of the third generation RT.
• 12 GB of GDDR6X memory at 21 GHz.
• 192-bit bus.
• 38 TFLOPs of performance in the FP32.
• TGP 285W.
• Possible price: $499-$549.

should performance equal to or slightly higher than GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and would be much more powerful in ray tracing.

The introduction of the new GeForce RTX 40 is still scheduled until the end of this year. We don’t have a specific date yet, but everything seems to indicate that they will leave in late September or mid-October.