Seasonic officially calls the new connector the "Nvidia 12-pin PCIe Molex Micro-Fit 3.0 Connector", which suggests this is the very same proprietary connector designated for the next-generation ...

GPU "Cable Gate" is an official thing now. This week a Redditor posted images of a melted 12-pin adapter cable on their Nvidia RTX 4090. The power plug on the PCB was also irreversibly damaged as ...

The green team seems to have just confirmed that Nvidia Ampere GeForce cards are going to be shipping 12-pin power adapters in the Founders Edition boxes. In the recently released video showing ...

Nvidia’s latest flagship GPU — the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti — will have a third 8-pin adapter, according to Tom’s Hardware.We’ve known for a long time that the 3090 Ti would be power-thirsty ...

There's been a spate of GeForce RTX 4090 cards burning up the included adapters, ... The 12-pin power connectors on the GeForce RTX 3070 and higher Ampere ... NVIDIA seems to be getting out ahead ...

The GeForce RTX 5090 Ti, an uber-flagship graphics card based on the "Blackwell" architecture that may or may not actually be planned for release by NVIDIA, could feature dual 12-pin (12V-2x6 ...

The RTX 4090 uses 16-pin 12VHPWR connectors and natively supports ATX 3.0 power supplies. Users who don't want to spend extra to upgrade from their ATX 2.0 PSUs can use the bundled adapters on ...

At AMD's RX 7000 launch event, the company made a subtle dig at Nvidia's recent RTX 4090 power adapters. Skip to main content. ... which requires an adapter to a standard 16-pin.

One side-effect of this power requirement is that the new 12-pin power connector that Nvidia introduced with the RTX 3080 doesn’t supply enough juice for this GPU, which means a brand new connector.