It was leaker wnxod that showed what the new reality will be for PCs around the world: any graphics card could now have the PCIe Gen 5 slot, especially if it’s midrange or midrange. And it is that through a GALAX model we now know that this card, thanks to this connector, can only be installed in a minimum percentage of PCs.
GALAX RTX 3090 Ti Boomstar: with PCIe 5.0 12+4 pin
The old king next door told me that a new board’s power port is like this. I doubt? pic.twitter.com/6TJw8bbrA3
— Alexei (@wxnod) March 10, 2022
And we are talking about a connector that, finally, in its final specification, is intended to provide up to a maximum of 600 watts
GALAX will go strong with this RTX 3090 Ti, since the model presented apparently incorporates the same cooling system as its sister RTX 3090 Boomstarwhere surely the brand has slightly modified the PCB which was already very good to accommodate the new GA102-350-A1.
It is a heatsink of a very important length that is almost 3 slots thick, which encloses an aluminum and copper body optimized for its three 10 cm fans, these being translucent with RGB.
Will this new standard come to all RTX 40s?
This is the big question without a doubt, since if the RTX 3090 Ti for consumer needs integrates it and NVIDIA wants to standardize it as such, manufacturers will surely jo in it, at least in models that exceed 250 consumption watts, a figure that a few years ago was for the elite range and soon it will be for the average without a doubt.
The problem is that there are hardly any more models on the market today and manufacturers are rushing to R&D, where the really complicated thing is not to find the connector itself in a specific power supply model, but to do so in the final specifications and we’ll explain. The first revision of this connector did not integrate the 4 resulting data pins necessary for the consumption control and managementso if it was already a rare bird in the sector, let’s imagine the current and definitive 12+4 pin connector.
To properly use these graphics cards with said PCIe Gen 5 connector in their final specification, two options will have to be chosen: buy an adapter (if the card itself does not come with it) and see if our power supply has enough amps on the 12V and 5V lines per rail to support dual charging on two of them.
Or and second, buy a new power supply that integrates this already optimized connector into a single rail with the specific requirements of PCIe Gen 5, which we expect simply due to novelty will come out for a peak. That said, there are two questions we don’t have an answer to yet. Are manufacturers willing to lose sales and market share because many users can’t or won’t switch power supplies? Given the consumption and the problems caused by the current connectors of the RTX 30 and its adapters, will it be prudent to opt for this with values as high as 450 watts per graphics card?
