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.

What is in your article is just the 12-pin FE connector ". They followed up with " This is the new 5.0 connector ", which I've got pictured below: This is the GPU side of the 5.0 connector.

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 ...

While a small adapter is included with each GPU for your existing power supply cables, that adapter converts two dedicated PCIe power cables to the new 12-pin connector per NVIDIA’s recommended ...

Nvidia introduced a new single 12-pin connector with its Founder Edition 30-series cards last year. Nvidia's reasoning at the time was that it wanted a smaller connector on the card itself.

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.

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 ...

With one simple change to its 12VHPWR connector, MSI has made it very obvious when the connector isn't plugged in all the way into a graphics card or PSU. The bit that's meant to be on the inside ...