Submitted 17 hours ago by Bigou@thebrainbin.org to technology@beehaw.org
Hello, technologically minded peoples, I have a question for you.
I would like to know what is the real consumption of a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and what's the real minimum power supply required to feed one the needed juice.
I ask to know if my father also needs to change is current power supply or not. (For the graphic card itself, he doesn't have a choice but to replace it, since his curent one died.)
With a normal CPU around 65W, you would be just fine with a 450W PSU.
The card is rated for 180 watts. It has a single 8 pin power connector, which means the maximum it could possibly draw is 225W. Pick a power supply that will provide that plus whatever the rest of the computer draws. I would suggest oversizing the power supply a bit so you don’t use more than about 75% of it’s rated output.
the mininum is dictated by the rest of the components and decision to limit future upgrades down the line.
after you are aware of what cpu you are using
amd and intel sub 250 cpus usually 150w or less
amd high end and alderlake(12gen, and arrowlake), peaks at 250w
intel raptor lake (13-14th gen) 300w
hedt cpus like threadripper fall under a similar class.
peak 5060ti is just under 200w alone.
add an arbitrary 50w to cover rest of components.
www.newegg.ca/tools/power-supply-calculator
The 50 series cards are pretty efficient and don’t have the transient spikes issue of the 30 series. You can get away with having a lower wattage PSU that is closer to your actual requirement instead of 40-50% headroom that used to be suggested.
As a point of reference, I have a 5070 ti oc (300W tdp, suggested PSU 700W according to techpowerup) with a ryzen 7 7700 (65W tdp) and I use a Silverstone SFX 700 W 80+ platinum and it works great. I’ve monitored the GPU wattage and it generally doesn’t go above 200ish in practical usage.
riskable@programming.dev 17 hours ago
Depends on your CPU and whatever else you have in your PC (e.g. is your cooler a beast too? Do you have six spinning disks? etc).
Generally speaking, 750W should be fine if you’re using a boring air cooling setup with an SSD or two.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
absolutely. some cpu can draw more than the 180 watts of a 5060ti, even without actual ‘overclocking’, all by themselves when boosting their own clock (such as intel’s “turbo power”). even a ‘65 watt’ ultra 7 265 can get up to that.
30p87@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Crazy. My 1070 was way overpowered with 500W. And even my 7800XT runs fine with it…