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Next-Gen AMD and Nvidia GPUs could be 500W power hogs

<p>According to Twitter user&comma; Greymon55 who posts rumors about upcoming tech products&comma; the next generation of GPUs coming from Nvidia and AMD are going to be power Demogorgons&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-4415" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;11&sol;pc-g327c214d9&lowbar;640&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"359" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;greymon55" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">&commat;greymon55<&sol;a> has posted possible specifications on upcoming GPUs that will probably consume twice as much power from current flagship cards available on the market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nvidia&&num;8217&semi;s Ada Lovelace AD102 TPU should come built on a 5nm TSMC process&comma; unlike the current Ampere GPU lineup built on Samsung&&num;8217&semi;s 8nm process&period; TSMC&&num;8217&semi;s 5nm process is already powering Apple SoCs &lpar;System on Chip&rpar; used in iPhones and a new M1 Pro&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;greymon55&sol;status&sol;1457931961796743168&quest;s&equals;20<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new TPU should be equipped with whooping 144 streaming multiprocessors and 18&comma;432 CUDA cores&excl; For example&comma; the current RTX 3090 GPU has &&num;8220&semi;only&&num;8221&semi; 82 streaming multiprocessors and half the CUDA cores&period; It will continue to use the GDDR6X memory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the same tweet&comma;  AD102 GPU could consume somewhat between 450w and 650w at peak performance which is a huge jump considering that RTX 3090 consumes 350w at peak performance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for the AMD&comma; its flagship GPU will be switching from a monolithic design to a Multi-Chip Module or MCM layout&period; MCM will feature Graphics Core &lpar;GCD&rpar; and a Multi-Cache Die &lpar;MCD&rpar; that are using TSMC&&num;8217&semi;s 5nm line and 6nm process respectfully&period; With two GCDs per card&comma; it will be powered with 15&comma;360 cores in total compared to 5120 streaming processors offered by the current RX 6900  XT&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>AMD&&num;8217&semi;s new GPU specs should be up to 32GB of GDDR6 on a 265-bit interface with clock speeds around 2GHz which could theoretically offer 75 teraflops which is still lower than NVidia <em>new<&sol;em> GPU performance&period; According to rumors&comma; power consumption should be somewhere in the 350-550W range&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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