Analysis: Performance and power worries – but let’s not forget pricing. What we don’t have confirmed, as VideoCardz observed, is what that 10% performance boost over the RTX

Noted hardware leaker kopite7kimi has revealed power consumption numbers for the RTX 50-series on Twitter, and if accurate, Nvidia is taking things to a whole new level for consumer GPUs. According to a summary from Videocardz of all the various tweets by this account and others,

Reports of NVIDIA possibly launching its GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 this month are likely based on a bad translation of a leak.

The GeForce RTX 50 Series, a new generation of GPUs for gamers based on NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture, will include models that are more power hungry than the current generation, according to new rumors that have been shared online.

Popular hardware leaker @kopite7kimi says that the RTX 5070 and RTX 5090 GPUs will require substantially more power than the previous generation. The 5070 will potentially match the 4070 Super at 220W,