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The Curious Case of the 12-pin Power Connector: It's Real and Coming with NVIDIA Ampere GPUs

Most people do not have a lot of room between the forward end of their videocard and the front of the case. Positioning the connector there may pose a few issues with case fitment.

You are right. With a quality flexible cable, there's no problem to place it at the side, just as usual. Manufacturers should stop putting inline caps in power connectors.
 
I've been talking to industry sources of mine who have said that NVIDIA will be using the 12-pin PCIe power connector on its new GeForce RTX 30 series Founders Edition graphic cards, while AIB partners on the other hand will not be using the 12-pin connector, and rather will have multiple 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

 
I've been talking to industry sources of mine who have said that NVIDIA will be using the 12-pin PCIe power connector on its new GeForce RTX 30 series Founders Edition graphic cards, while AIB partners on the other hand will not be using the 12-pin connector, and rather will have multiple 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

By "multiple" 8-pin connectors, do they mean 2 or 3? I'd lean more towards 3, considering the lack of clarification and usage of "multiple" instead of "two".
It'd be crazy to see 3x 8pin connectors be the new standard, that was kind of reserved for the high-end LN2-focused AIB cards previously.
Can't wait for the 4x 8-pin K|NGP|N card from EVGA :laugh:
 
2 or 3 depending on the card and its power requirements...

I highly doubt that will be 'standard' on anything south of Titan and Non-Titan flagship part, but yeah, we saw this before on a couple of GPUs... yep. MSI Lightning IIRC had it as well as the K|NGP|N.
 
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