NVIDIA’s connector story: EPS vs. 12VHPWR Connector - Unfortunately, good doesn’t always win, but evil wins more and more often (insights) | igor´sLAB
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After numerous articles, explanations, and follow-up tests, today we’re taking a different approach. I have three intriguing topics for you: the possible origin story of the 12VHPWR connector…
  • TaintedSquirrel@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Reminder, the 3090 FE used two 8-pins and was a 350W card. If they were going to use 8-pins on the 4090, they could have just used 3 at 450W.

    It wouldn’t hit 600W as the current 4090 does but it would still have more headroom than the 3090 did.