GeForce RTX 5090 And 5080 TDPs Break Cover, Plan Your PSU Upgrade Accordingly

The arrival of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is getting closer with each passing day, and a reveal is very likely to manifest at year's CES event. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang will be the keynote speaker, where he is expected to introduce the next-gen GPU lineup. One piece of rumor that keeps circulating is the potential increase in power draw of the high-end GPUs.

Kopite7kimi, a known leaker, recently shared on X/Twitter that the GeForce RTX 5080 may come in at a 360W TDP. This would be a bump from the 320W TDP of both the GeForce RTX 4080 and newer (and more powerful) GeForce RTX 4080 Super, albeit really just a modest increase.

The GeForce RTX 5080 is rumored to feature the same amount of VRAM at 16GB, but of the faster GDDR7 variety. The RTX 5080 is also said to be releasing to retail on ...