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 well. Naturally, the Internet was outraged ...

separate 12-pin PCIe power cable -- it is a 12-pin to dual 8-pin adapter (that's a pity...). This was recently confirmed by our good friends over at eTeknix, with some photos below. 600-675W for a ...

It'll chew through power: We had a tease from Seasonic and their upcoming 12-pin PCIe power connector adapter, which converts the 12-pin connector from your PSU and its dual 8-pin PCIe power ...

The 12-pin connector is smaller than using two traditional eight-pin connectors, and Nvidia will include an adapter that’s compatible with eight-pin cables. Nvidia has picked a 12-pin connector ...

The actual power cable is a next-gen PCIe 5.0 12VHPWR ... When the original 3090 shipped, it included a 12-pin to double 8-pin adapter. Nvidia’s reasoning was very similar at the time.

Despite the change from an 8-pin to a 12-pin power connector in Nvidia’s upcoming ... existing PC desktop power supplies via a provided adapter.

But the Founders Edition ships with an adapter that converts a pair of 8-pin power cables to the new 12-pin connector. Plug it in and it just works. Note that Nvidia suggests using separate 8-pin ...

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 ...