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 ...

Editor Andreas Schilling posted a tweet showing the new 12-pin connector next to the standard dual 8-pin connectors used on high-end graphics cards. As you can see, the new Nvidia connector is tiny.

If you want some solid evidence that NVIDIA's making real-world changes that'll affect the way you need to build a computer, look to the 12-pin GPU power connector.

The new ASUS ROG Thor 1000W Platinum II PSU for example has a 12-pin PCIe cable bundled and can "pipe up to 600W of power to PCIe Gen 5.0 graphics cards" of the future.

Nvidia engineers explain what drove the design of the company's upcoming 'Ampere' GeForce graphics cards, revealing a revamped cooling solution and a 12-pin power connector.

It's been a while since we needed a new graphics card power connector. Both AMD and Nvidia have typically made do with pairs of 6-pin and 8-pin connectors in various configurations.

12-pin PCIe power connector on Founders Edition ONLY: NVIDIA will be using a special new 12-pin PCIe power connector on its GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition graphics cards, something that I've ...

As you can see, this new 12-pin connector is smaller (overall) than a single 8-pin connector, but it’d be the only one you plug in. In time, a PSU could offer this connector out-of-the-box, but for ...

Despite the change from an 8-pin to a 12-pin power connector in Nvidia’s upcoming line of graphics cards, codenamed Ampere, they will work with existing PC desktop power supplies via a provided ...

Nvidia is starting to tease its next-generation RTX 3090 graphics card. The Ampere-based GPU is expected to be unveiled on September 1st, and Nvidia has now teased its design, cooling, and new 12 ...

New 12-pin connector. (Credit: Nvidia) The added power also promises to boost the graphics performance of the new GPUs, which are expected to be announced during a Sept. 1 company event.