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These days it seems like everything in the GPU world is beginning to fall back to earth. We all know prices have begun to reflect the impact of post-pandemic gravity. Also, several weeks ago AMD’s upcoming RDNA3’s specs were taken down a peg by the rumor mill. Now, it’s Nvidia’s turn in the barrel. Noted GPU rumor monger @kopite7kimi has released a “summary” of the AD102 die’s rumored specs, and they’re decidedly more sane than what they previously reported.

The biggest news, in our opinion, is the Total Board Power (TBP) has been significantly reduced. It was first reported to be an eye-popping 850W back in February. This naturally caused a lot of consternation as it’s totally unheard of for a consumer GPU. That number was dialed back a bit to 600W in April. This aligned with leaked PCI Express 5.0 specs that showed you could push that much power through a single GPU cable. Now the official rumor is the RTX 4090’s TBP is a much more palatable 450W. The reduction in power consumption is due to a downgrading of the total number of CUDA cores.

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