Is a 650w 80+ Gold PSU enough for 3070 Ti & 5600x?

[Kimigeo]

Hello,

After a long wait period, I decided to replace my old GTX 1070 with a new GPU. I was targeting an RX 6800 but it was not easy to find something in stock in my country.
In the end, I ordered a 3070 Ti. This is my current build at a high level:

• AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
• MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI ATX AM4
• Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 8 GB x 4
• Samsung 750 EVO 250 GB
• SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB
• Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
• Corsair RM650x 650W 80+ Gold
• NZXT Kraken X73
• Fractal Meshify 2 (case)

My main concern is related to my PSU, as Nvidia recommends a 750W PSU for a 3070 Ti. I have already added all my parts to pcpartpicker in order to see the estimated power consumption of my build.
I could see that the estimation is at 523W.

Is my current PSU enough for the new 3070 Ti or should I consider a new PSU?

Thanks!

[podkall]

RM models from Corsair are good, techpowerup suggests 600W

 

you've got a pretty solid odds of the PSU being able to handle that..

[Kimigeo]

16 hours ago, podkall said:

RM models from Corsair are good, techpowerup suggests 600W

 

you've got a pretty solid odds of the PSU being able to handle that..

Thanks for the comment. I could see that with factor of x1.2 my PSU could be enough. However, I have seen that some guides propose the factor x1.5, especially for the Nvidia GPUs.

[podkall]

2 hours ago, Kimigeo said:

Thanks for the comment. I could see that with factor of x1.2 my PSU could be enough. However, I have seen that some guides propose the factor x1.5, especially for the Nvidia GPUs.

I mean, kind of true, but that's mostly for lower quality PSUs,

 

if you want to be super sure find a high quality 750 W PSU instead,

 

but people seem to have no issues driving 3070 ti with a high quality 650W PSU.

[DaedalusRunner]

Don't go overclocking and you will be fine.

[Kimigeo]

On 12/9/2022 at 6:09 PM, podkall said:

I mean, kind of true, but that's mostly for lower quality PSUs,

 

if you want to be super sure find a high quality 750 W PSU instead,

 

but people seem to have no issues driving 3070 ti with a high quality 650W PSU.

Yes, the RM650x is a very good power supply, so this is why I was thinking to give it a try without buying a new one.

And if anything happens, then I will go for a 750w.

[Kimigeo]

19 hours ago, DaedalusRunner said:

Don't go overclocking and you will be fine.

Thanks for the tip. I am not doing any overclocking and I am not willing to do it. Although, the card that I ordered is the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8GB GDDR6X OC. I have seen that generally, it will consume 310 watts, +20W than a founder's 3070 Ti.

[podkall]

2 hours ago, Kimigeo said:

Yes, the RM650x is a very good power supply, so this is why I was thinking to give it a try without buying a new one.

And if anything happens, then I will go for a 750w.

oh yeah im sure ur good, i think the recommendations of higher W psus are just in case people if they buy trash psu it gets maybe overpowered by big wattage..

[podkall]

Just now, podkall said:

oh yeah im sure ur good, i think the recommendations of higher W psus are just in case people if they buy trash psu it gets maybe overpowered by big wattage..

but I dont recommend that