This is not a new development with the 40 series. The RTX 3090 Ti already had a 450W TDP: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3829 https:

This is not a new development with the 40 series. The RTX 3090 Ti already had a 450W TDP: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3829 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-3090-ti.c3... What you describe is accurate, the 3090 Ti produces a tremendous amount of heat under load in my experience and I would expect the same with these new cards.