We still don’t have PCI Express 5.0 power supplies, and although a few have already been announced on the market, not all manufacturers were on board. This time it’s GIGABYTE’s turn with its UDM1000GM PG5 power supply, the first to feature a 16-pin 12VHPWR connector.
The PCIe Gen 5 power connector is still a huge unknown in terms of operation. While we know it’ll be capable of delivering up to 600W of power over a single cable, its full specs and operation have been a mystery to say the least. Although little by little new details about the 12VHPWR connector are revealed. The last came with the GIGABYTE UDM1000GM PG5 power supply.
The UDM1000GM PG5 power supply joins those already seen by MSI and ASUS, and shows us how we will actually have two PCIe Express 5.0 slots. One of 12 pins at 450 W and another of 16 or 12+4 of 600 W of power
UDM1000GM PG5, GIGABYTE’s First PCIe Gen 5 Power Supply
GIGABYTE has just introduced its first power supply with the new 16-pin PCI Express 5.0 card connector, which will power the next generation of graphics cards. A f1000W power supply with 80 PLUS Gold certification.
Details of the new 12VHPWR connector
Through a press release regarding its new UD1000GM power supply, the folks at GIGABYTE released new information about the PCIe Gen 5 power connector that created more questions than answers.
The UDM1000GM PG5 power supply supports PCIe Gen 5 graphics cards and is capable of delivering the ever-increasing power required by high-end graphics cards. traditional power supplies need three 8-pin to 16-pin connectors to support the latest graphics cards The new UDM1000GM PG5 power supply requires a single 16-pin cable to power the PCI Express 5.0 GPU. Plus, the 16-pin cable provides up to 600 watts of power while solving the cable count problem.
The statement we’ve highlighted in bold is very eye-catching for a reason, we know that every 8-pin cable in the PCI Express standard can deliver 150W, so three of them combined will deliver 450W. is obviously less than 600 W, but I would have an explanation. Since GIGABYTE could really be referring to NVIDIA’s 12+0 cable, since let’s remember this new cable and 12+4 or 12VHPWR connector It is compatible with the one used in the Founders Edition of the RTX 30. With which the RTX 3090 Ti will be able to obtain the 450 W of power it needs, but which until now was limited to 300 W due to the limitations of the Current PSUs.
The new PCIe Gen 5 slot is an expansion from NVIDIA
The relationship between the 12-pin NVIDIA connector and the PCIe Gen 5 is easy to understand by looking at the two cables, the cable has the same 12 connection pins, but the 600W version has four additional pins giving it the remaining 150W power. So the most logical explanation is that the final four pins are different so that the fit of the two connectors is exactly the same. This will mean that there will be two types of connectors on the graphics cards and as a result we will see models with 450W consumption and others with 600W. maximum use. power of new power supplies.
