Nvidia confirms its 12-pin power connector for Ampere series Founders Edition GPUs

[WYP]

Nvidia will supply users with a free adapter.



Read more about Nvidia's 12-pin PCIe Power Connector.

 

[MiNo]

While I love my FPS i really wish we would see lower power usage. For one, it’s not cool (!) to game with 600+ watts being used and secondly it’s just not that elegant to deliver more performance though increase in power and size. The rest of the world seems to have understood this but not here. It’s like the musclecars of the 70’s : Vulgar large engines that ate up gas at an alarming rate without offering a performance to match. At least the V8’s sounded great

 

[AlienALX]

While I love my FPS i really wish we would see lower power usage. For one, it’s not cool (!) to game with 600+ watts being used and secondly it’s just not that elegant to deliver more performance though increase in power and size. The rest of the world seems to have understood this but not here. It’s like the musclecars of the 70’s : Vulgar large engines that ate up gas at an alarming rate without offering a performance to match. At least the V8’s sounded great

The power argument has been dropped long ago mate.

It was used as a weapon by both companies (AMD and Nvidia) yet both of them have proved themselves to be utter hypocrites, showing they really don't care and it was all about marketing.

The bottom line? as long as GPUs are fast no one cares if they are hot and loud and guzzle power. See also Fermi, The Radeon 290, 390, Fury X, Vega......

This is a new era in GPUs. We are back to big dies, and that means that at first they are not going to be terribly power efficient.

 

[KingNosser]

I don't care about power but I do care about temps so long as any cooler does the job it don't matter to me, but i always prefer AIB cards myself.

Only a few days to go and we'll know a lot more than all the reports atm, but judging by that cooler video that sept 1st event is going to be a real yawn fest

 

[grec]

There are usually very power efficient SKUs of most popular GPUs if that's what you're looking for, particularly with the mini ones, or you can do it yourself if you like and often gain whopping efficiency gains with minimal performance lost with underclocking/volting most modern GPUs, comes down more to stock/factory tuning and the expected priorities of most gamers than architectural design, at the end of the day all these architectures work just fine and with amazing efficiency in tuned laptop SKUs.

But at the end of the day, if people are buying giant cases and 1000W+ PSUs, there's no point not making use of it I guess, at least for an extreme model like this.

 

[Kleptobot]

Interesting that the 12Pin header pictured in the render is not listed in Molex's catalogue. A company as large as Nvidia is large enough to commission custom stuff but it's much cheaper to order off the catalogue. The orientation of the connector is odd too, the footprint would look quite strange as the connections would stretch out behind it.

That connector is about 19mm tall so the card will be at least that thick