➀ AMD's Radeon RX 8800 XT, the top RDNA 4 GPU, is set for mass production in December with 25% less power consumption and 45% better ray tracing performance than the 7900 XTX; ➁ NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 is expected to surpass the RDNA 4 stack at CES 2025; ➂ The RX 8800 XT is the last RDNA 4 card before UDNA, with performance and power consumption rumors suggesting significant improvements.
Recent #power consumption news in the semiconductor industry
➀ AI servers are expected to consume over 1000 kW of power due to NVIDIA's upcoming Rubin Ultra AI GPU and HBM4 memory; ➁ Current AI servers use 130-250 kW, but future models like Blackwell Ultra and Rubin AI servers will require 250-900 kW, with up to 576 GPUs per rack by 2026-2027; ➂ NVIDIA's future AI servers with Rubin Ultra AI GPUs will use 1000 kW or more by 2028-2029+.
➀ NVIDIA is reportedly developing the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti with 8960 CUDA cores and 70 Streaming Multiprocessors; ➁ The GPU is expected to be the GB203 'Blackwell'; ➂ The card is rumored to have a 300W TDP.
➀ NVIDIA's new GB200 NVL72 AI server faces significant challenges due to its 132kW TDP; ➁ This makes it the highest-power-consuming server in history; ➂ The development of the server is experiencing delays due to technical issues.