Since January 17, the first RTX 40 SUPER, of the 3 announced by NVIDIA, is now available on the market. We are talking about the RTX 4070 SUPER, a graphics card that at HardZone we have already had the opportunity to test in depth. With the launch of this new range of NVIDIA graphics, due to its high consumption, it was necessary to use the 12VHPWR connector.
This connector has caused a lot of problems when it comes to powering graphics since many users they didn’t fold it correctly and the cable and connector end up melting, the simplest solution to this problem is to use a cable with the connector at 90º.
If you can’t understand the 12VHPWR connector, with the new generation RTX 40 SUPER, assembler MAXSUN launched its version of the RTX 4070 SUPER which includes two 8-pin PCIe power connectors like the usual ones.
Most assemblers offer a single 8-pin connection since their TGP is 200W. However, with the launch of the RTX 4070 SUPER, the TGP has been increased to 220Wall manufacturers therefore had to adopt the 12VHPWR connector and include the adapter that converts two 8-pin PCIe to this connector, a connector capable of offering up to 200W.
MAXSUN RTX 4070 SUPER version has the 8 pin connectors on the board, so the 12VHPWR adapter is not found. In this way, there is no need to compare a 90º adapter to provide power, since the traditional connector can continue to be used, which poses no problem in making curves inside the equipment .
MAXSUN is a manufacturer of Asian origin whose main market is China, although it also sells outside the Asian continent. For the moment, this version which does not have the 12VHPWR connector is only available for China, but it’s only a matter of time before it reaches the rest of the world. This model has a price of 4999 Yuan, or around 637 dollars in exchange, a price lower than the NVIDIA Founders Edition version and which starts at 669 dollars.
On January 24, the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER will go on sale, a graphics card that starts at 899 dollars in Europe for the NVIDIA version and will include support for the 12VHPWR connector. Considering that the 8-pin connectors offer a maximum of 200W, unless they significantly reduce the TDP of this version, it is very unlikely that one can use the traditional connection in place of the new one.
We will have to wait until January 31 for NVIDIA to launch the RTX 4080 SUPER, a version that starts at 1,199 dollars for the Founders Edition version and which has a TDP of 320 W, the same as the RTX 4080 version itself. In this case we encounter the same problem as the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, since it has a higher TDP of 200W, the minimum that two 8-pin connectors of a power supply can offer, therefore 600 offered by the 12VHPWR connector.
