Futureproofing for RTX40 Series

[Nosril]

Hi there,

 

this is my current setup: Ryzen 1600X and a RX580 with a Thermaltake Berlin 630W PSU. Lately i had some really weird behaviour with my PC (turning randomly off etc.) and I think its because of the PSU. Therefore I just purchased an MSI MPG A750GF. But before using it it got me thinking if the 750W are enough for the future. Because I don't really want to upgrade the PSU again because I am missing like 100-200W then.

 

I wanted to upgrade for a while for (at least) a new GPU like a 3070 or 3080 but due to current prices thats not really possible. Thats why I am thinking about just sticking with my shitty GPU and waiting until the RTX40 Series releases. The 3080 already has a "worst case" demand of 750W. So therefore I am thinking that the new generation will propably need even more power. But will the MSI GPU then still be enough?

 

Thanks for any help!

Nosril

[dizmo]

Unfortunately none of us can see into the future, and know about future products. Rumour has it that they'll be considerably more power hungry.

You'll just have to wait and see. Personally I'd have gone with something like 1,000 watt.

[Wolverine2349]

Its hard to say. But I would say a good quality 1000 watt power supply should be good. Maybe more as I have heard rumors those things may draw unusual amounts of power.

 

I would say though you definitely wat at least PCIE 4.0 video card slot. So any Intel CPU Comet Lake or below is stuck at PCIE Gen 3 which was fine for 1 RTX 3090 as it just saturated that bus, but did not exceed it much if at all. But 4000 series I imagine will be different. I would go with no Intel chipset older than Z590 nor any AMD chipset older than X570.

 

PCIE 4.0 is going to be quite future proof for video cards for some time. Now PCIE 5.0 is probably overkill and will not be needed for a long long while. Though Intel Z690 and Alder Lake have it. Though I find Alder Lake buggy and not a fan of the Big.Little core design nor the insane heat and power consumption. I wish Intel had more than 8 P cores on Alder Lake with no E cores that could clock high with better thermals and powers consumption. Then Intel would be better again than AMD, though their insane power consumption leading to insane heat for air cooling plus hybrid architecture of CPU types in chips makes me still prefer AMD by far right now.

[dilpickle]

1000w should cover you for the lifetime of the unit.

[Elisis]

PCIe 5.0 cards are to have a new PCIe power connector so there's that to consider.

[Juular]

Too early to say anything specific about Lovelace but it reasonable to expect it to be more power hungry due to the new power connector standard which comes with PCIe 5.0, at least for high-end SKUs. But would you really buy $2k+ GPUs ? 750W should be enough for something on the level of RTX3070 price wise, and these lower powered SKUs would probably still use old power connector standard for the most part to retain backwards compatibility.