It’s no secret that we’re going to have a new standard power connector for graphics cards, but so far we haven’t seen the 12-pin cable for PCIe Gen 5 and it turns out it’s the exact same shape as NVIDIA. Is it just a coincidence or has it been standardized?
Hace unos días os hablábamos de unas fuentes de alimentación de ASUS con un connector PCI Express 5.0 y entre las diferentes images de la presentación hubo una que nos llamó poderosamente la atención donde se veía una NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition conectada a dicho base plate.
We must start from the beginning that said NVIDIA graphics card is not compatible with PCI Express 5.0, but the manufacturer GeForce has introduced a 12-pin connector to power the high-end models of its RTX 30.
This is the PCIe Gen 5 to 12 pin cable
One of the hallmarks of IT standards is that most of the time you end up adopting existing, proven technology. This is the case with the power cable for PCIe Gen 5. The reason? It’s exactly the same as the 12-pin power cable that NVIDIA introduced in its RTX 30, i.e. a Molex Micro-Fit 3.0.
From what can be said, the 12-pin cable that NVIDIA introduced in its latest generation of graphics cards for gaming has been standardized, since it was adopted as the standard power cable for PCI Express 5.0.
All of this explains the NVIDIA GeForce rumors RTX 3090 Ti
More than 600W of power
It’s no secret that the new 12-pin PCIe Gen 5 cable will be able to power graphics cards up to 600W, which was within reach when NVIDIA first introduced its connector a year ago. . card with such a level of consumption.
Since the 12-pin connector has been the property of NVIDIA until now, the AMD RX 6000 has used the connectors of the standard, although it is clear that their next-gen multi-chip GPUs could take advantage of the new one. power connector, as well as the new 12-pin PCIe Gen 5 cable.
Since the new cable is standard and is no longer a proprietary implementation, not only NVIDIA, Intel and AMD will be able to use their graphics cards and will be able to download them up to 600W of consumption. This is paradoxical in a world where we seek to reduce energy consumption as much as possible. All this supported by the problem of energy consumption of memory interfaces, which can be found everywhere, from telephones to supercomputers, including our PCs.
