TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

Nvidia GPU has started to show its consequences on the RX 9070 XT. Sapphire's Nitro+ variant uses a 12v-2x6 connector, which has burnt down thrice already, making this the fourth case so far, joining ...

User Wing King posted images of a 12V-2x6 connector prototype on Bilibili, capable of monitoring current across each pin.The design has been developed to help monitor the current on each 12V pin of ...

At CES 2026, MSI unveiled a new power-supply safety feature called GPU Safeguard, designed to address ongoing concerns around ...

NVIDIA is now not the only one that is using the new 12VHPWR power connector on its graphics cards, with Intel announcing its new Data Center GPU Max 1100 GPU series. Intel's new Data Center GPU Max ...

The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has developed a revised specification for the 16-pin 12VHPWR graphics card power connector. According to a report from Igor's Lab ...

Since the 16-pin connector was introduced and later revised, melting adapters and PSU/GPU-side connectors on some of Nvidia's mainstream GeForce gaming GPUs have been rampant. Two of MSI's recently ...

According to a new post on Weibo, Intel AIB partner Gunnir has released a stock clocked lower-tier variant of the Arc A380 called the Index. Most notably, this model ditches the 6-pin power connector ...

Graphics cards have become increasingly hungry for power, to the point where a single 8-pin Molex power connector doesn't cut it anymore, and in some cases three are required. But it looks like we're ...

Nvidia’s upcoming line of graphics cards, codenamed Ampere, will indeed use a 12-pin power connector over the standard 8-pin, the company reveals in a new video. The new 12-pin connector is more ...