Recomended PSU for RX 6900XT Red Devil Ultimate

Josh Racey · 13 Jun 2021 at 21:48

I am running a Ryzen 9500x with a 360 aio and 6 additional case fans. I am thinking of getting the RX 6900XT Red Devil Ultimate, but i am unsure whether my PSU is up to the job, especially if i want to do some heavy overclocking on the card and a light tweak to the CPU. My current PSU is a brand new EVGA Super Nova G3 850W. I feel that this should be more than enough, but i have read a lot of conflicting information, especially with people refering to power spikes. Is anyone able to put the matter to rest for me.

mickyflinn · 13 Jun 2021 at 22:04

850w should be enough but as you want to do some heavy overclocking i would get a 1000w + psu.

olegnewman · 14 Jun 2021 at 20:27

850w would be enough even with overclock, running at both the 9700k and RTX 2070s both overclocked with the powerdraw below 720w.

But looking at the kind of power consumption on the new GPUs, better be safe with a 1000w

Jerome Psaila · 14 Jun 2021 at 23:02

I would just get a 1000w or 1200w to be on the safe side

Joxeon · 15 Jun 2021 at 00:10

Josh Racey said:
My current PSU is a brand new EVGA Super Nova G3 850W

I'd imagine 850w would be fine so see how it goes first and if you get random reboots in games then maybe go higher although I doubt you will need to.