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’s GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were the first mainstream products to feature the 16-pin power connector. However, Nvidia might not stick to this format for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 ...
Thermal Grizzly has launched its innovative WireView Pro GPU device, which we first saw at Computex 2024. This device protects your graphics card from potential damage by measuring and monitoring ...
NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer enough ...
Having already launched the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090, the GeForce RTX 3070 is up next to bat (it releases to retail on October 15). Sometime after that, presumably, Ampere will shift over ...
Why are GPUs still catching fire?