AMD Won’t Enforce 12V-2×6 Power Connector for Radeon RX 9000 “RDNA 4” Series, It’s Claimed as Radeon 9070 XT Rumors Allude to 330-Watt Pow...

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Custom models of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, one of the first graphics cards to leverage AMD's all-new RDNA 4 architecture, may not feature 12VHPWR, the 16-pin power connector that some NVIDIA users had claimed led to their GPUs melting down, according to several reports that claim red team isn't mandating 12V-2x6 for its partners and is, instead, allowing them to stick with traditional 8-pin power connectors.

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The other side of this is that some partners may choose to use it because there was at least one board partner that did with their 7900XT and 7900XTX custom models.

These new AMD Radeon cards just copied Nvidia in the worst way

The new ASRock Creator range of 7900 XT and 7900 XTX GPUs feature blower cooler designs, with a 16-pin 12VHPWR socket on the edge.

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ASRock Launches AMD Radeon RX 7900 Creator Series Graphics Cards with Blower Fan

ASRock has launched the Radeon RX 7900 XTX Creator 24GB and ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XT Creator 20GB, two new Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics cards based on the RDNA 3 architecture that feature a vapor-chamber heatsink, two-slot thickness, and what the company says is an efficient blower fan...

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