CalcuGrid

What PSU do I need for a Ryzen 5 7600X?

550 W to 1000 W, depending on the graphics card beside it. With a GeForce RTX 4070 the answer is 650 W.

Where the watts go — Ryzen 5 7600X with GeForce RTX 4070

Power draw by component for a Ryzen 5 7600X build
Component Power
Ryzen 5 7600X at its ceiling142 W
GeForce RTX 4070 board power200 W
Motherboard25 W
Memory module x26 W
NVMe SSD7 W
Case fan x36 W
Continuous draw386 W

The recommendation of 650 W sits that draw at 59% of the supply's rating. The target is 80%: supplies lose capacity as they age, and a graphics card's millisecond transients have to come from somewhere.

Why the answer is a range

A Ryzen 5 7600X is sold as a 105 W processor and draws 142 W when it boosts. AMD calls the second figure PPT — Package Power Tracking — and it is the socket’s real ceiling. Sizing a supply against the 105 W on the box is short by 37 W — 35% — before the graphics card is counted at all.

With a GeForce RTX 4070 the system draws 386 W at full tilt, which calls for 650 W. Across the 34 cards below the answer ranges from 550 W to 1000 W: with this processor it is the graphics card that moves the number, not the other way round.

What the box would have told you

Size a supply against the 105 W on this processor's box and, paired with GeForce RTX 4090, you would buy 750 W. That build draws 636 W at full tilt — 85% of the unit you just bought, with nothing left for ageing or for the card's transients. It needs 800 W.

It happens on 25 of the 34 cards here, by as much as 50 W. On the rest the graphics card is light enough that the undercount does not cross a supply size, which is luck rather than a method.

Supply sized from the Ryzen 5 7600X TDP against what the build needs
Graphics card Sized on TDP Actually needed Short by
RTX 4090750 W800 W+50 W
RTX 3090 Ti750 W800 W+50 W
RTX 5080650 W700 W+50 W
Radeon RX 7900 XTX650 W700 W+50 W
RTX 3090650 W700 W+50 W

Ryzen 5 7600X with every graphics card

Power supply needed for a Ryzen 5 7600X with each graphics card
Graphics card System draw PSU needed Set by
GeForce RTX 5090761 W1000 WBoth agree
GeForce RTX 4090636 W850 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti636 W850 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5080546 W850 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7900 XTX541 W800 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3090536 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti536 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3080536 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER506 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4080506 W750 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7900 XT501 W750 WCard maker
Radeon RX 9070 XT490 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti486 W750 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER471 W700 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti471 W700 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7800 XT449 W700 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7900 GRE446 W700 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7700 XT431 W700 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti476 W650 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5070436 W650 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER406 W650 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3070406 W650 WCard maker
Radeon RX 9070406 W650 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4070386 W650 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti386 W600 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5060 Ti366 W600 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3060356 W550 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti351 W550 WCard maker
Radeon RX 7600351 W550 WCard maker
Radeon RX 9060 XT346 W550 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5060331 W550 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 5050316 W550 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 3050316 W550 WCard maker
GeForce RTX 4060301 W550 WCard maker

Frequently asked questions

What PSU do I need for a Ryzen 5 7600X?
It depends entirely on the graphics card: 550 W with the lightest here, 1000 W with the heaviest. Paired with a GeForce RTX 4070 the answer is 650 W.
How many watts does a Ryzen 5 7600X actually draw?
142 W at its ceiling, not the 105 W on the spec sheet. AMD publishes the higher number as PPT; the lower one is a thermal design target, and the gap between them is 37 W.
Is the 105 W TDP the number to size a PSU against?
No. TDP describes what the cooler has to remove under a sustained load, not what the socket can pull in the moment it boosts. Using it here would leave you 37 W short.
Does a Ryzen 5 7600X need a bigger PSU than its TDP suggests?
Yes — 37 W more, before the graphics card. That is the difference between a supply that copes and one that trips under a load spike.
What happens if I size my PSU from the 105 W TDP?
You would buy a supply that is too small on 25 of the 34 cards here, by as much as 50 W — often a whole size, sometimes two.

A sizing estimate, not a measurement. It adds the processor's power ceiling, the graphics card's rated board power and an itemised allowance for the rest of the system, then leaves headroom so the supply is not running at its limit. Real draw depends on the board's power profile, how far the parts are overclocked, and how a particular graphics card handles transient spikes. Treat a result within 50 W of a supply's rating as a reason to choose the next size up.

Data on this page last verified . How these figures are calculated

    ↑↓ to move ↵ to open