The rumors about the NVIDIA TITAN Ada Lovelace do not stop. A few months ago we saw that some sources assured that the graphics cards of the new generation of NVIDIA were going to have crazy consumption, in fact there was talk of up to 800 watts in the case of the GeForce RTX 4090something that in the end not only has not been fulfilled, but the real values of that graphics card have been much lower (it has a 450 watt TGPthe same as the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti).
The same source of those crazy rumors has returned to the fray, and ensures that the NVIDIA TITAN Ada Lovelace has been canceled because, supposedly, it is capable of melting power supplies. They say this, but they also explain that it does not consume 800 watts, but that it moves in the range of 600-700 wattsand what do you need two 16-pin connectors.
A single 16-pin power connector can deliver 600 watts of power, and the PCIe connector supplies 75 watts, so in total we would have a power of 675 watts. However, the source of this rumor says that NVIDIA TITAN Ada Lovelace needed two 16-pin connectors, which together with the PCIe slot they are capable of supplying. 1,275 watts full power. All this for a graphics card that moves between 600 and 700 wattsall very believable, notice the irony.
But the source of the rumor dares to go much further and says that the NVIDIA TITAN Ada Lovelace has been canceled because it even “melts”. What can I say, the Radeon RX 295X2 had maximum consumption of 500 watts and it used two additional 8-pin power connectors and it didn’t give any problems, in fact it almost always stayed in the 70 degree range. Now a much more advanced graphics card with a TGP of between 600 and 700 watts turns out to be so problematic that it melts.
When you see the analysis of the GeForce RTX 4090 that I have prepared for you and you discover its consumption values and its temperatures, you will understand much better why this rumor does not make any sense. The truth is that I do not understand why it has been generated a disinformation campaign so important around the GeForce RTX 40, its consumption and its temperatures, but in the end this is not good for anyone, and that is why I want to demystify all that ball of rumors that has accumulated in recent weeks.
I am clear that NVIDIA could perfectly launch a TITAN Ada Lovelace with a 600 watt TGP, limit it to a 16-pin PCIe Gen5 connector and fine-tune the cooling system that mounts the GeForce RTX 4090 to keep working temperatures under control. Any quality power supply with a power of at least 1,000 watts would be able to drive said graphics without problems, as long as the rest of the components of the PC do not cause the total consumption to exceed those 1,000 watts.
Interestingly, the source of this rumor itself has collected information from leaks related to the GeForce RTX 4090 that say that “offers a good performance-per-watt ratio versus Ampere,” that is, that Ada Lovelace is a more efficient architecture than the previous generation. That said, a meaningless rumor in which the source itself contradicts itselfand yet it is running like wildfire.
