Power Supplies Featuring Two 12V-2×6 Connectors Spark Rumors That NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Will Require Two of The 600W Connectors

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Multiple power supplies featuring two 12V-2x6 (aka 12VHPWR 2.0) connectors have some wondering if NVIDIA's next flagship GPU will require them. NVIDIA would not be the first to include two of the connectors on one of its graphics cards as GALAX released a HOF RTX 4090 with two of them and a PSU for it back in 2022. Now, following their recent tour of MSI's factory in Shenzhen, China, Tweaktown has reported on two MSI PSU models featuring dual 12V-2x6 connectors and they were told they were to support next-gen GPUs.

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[Brian_B]

Double the connectors, double the fireworks

 

[Grimlakin]

I honestly hope that's just power supply makers getting ahead of the AI compute demand curve coming.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I honestly hope that's just power supply makers getting ahead of the AI compute demand curve coming.

I truly feel this is what's happening but I don't know for sure. I could see custom cards with them though since that can be a thing.

 

[Grimlakin]

I mean maybe for a 5090 Titan with 48gb of vram or something to that effect?

 

[Endgame]

If there is going to be a Titan slotted above the 5090, I wouldn’t be surprised to see 2 connectors. High power 5090s like the old EVGA Kingpin would be another candidate

 

[LazyGamer]

There were units with two 12VHPWR (the preceding design) connectors as well.

I'd expect these to be targeted more toward workstations with multiple GPUs. A pair would be used for a 4x GPU + Threadripper setup, for example.

 

[Niner51]

Power consumption has gotten totally out of hand in this hobby.

 

[Brian_B]

Power consumption has gotten totally out of hand in this hobby.

Whatever it takes to print bigger numbers on the box than the competition.

CPUs oscillate along this same path. They will just keep cranking TDP until they hit a brick wall - then someone will retune for efficiency. That and a couple of process nodes usually busts down the brick wall and we do it all over again.

 

[Niner51]

Whatever it takes to print bigger numbers on the box than the competition.

CPUs oscillate along this same path. They will just keep cranking TDP until they hit a brick wall - then someone will retune for efficiency. That and a couple of process nodes usually busts down the brick wall and we do it all over again.

True. I just see myself tapping out here in the near future and getting into another hobby. I figure with the 40 series cards connector issue and now Intel issues, the power draw thing is not something these companies really get under control before release. I'm done being a guinea pig for them I guess you could say.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I'm in for one more gen of stuff and maybe one more after that. I like the idea of some kind of AMD 9000 X3D build with a 5090 and feel fairly confident that I'll be able to configure one in a Lian Li A3-mATX. After that, too early to tell, and not even sure if I'll need to update. I'm in my 50s and could easily be in my 60s by the time that theoretical build would need updating.

 

[Niner51]

I'm in my 50s and could easily be in my 60s by the time that theoretical build would need updating.

I'm in the same boat as you probably already know. Games just have been getting less appealing to me as time goes by. The only reason I have the two other rigs in my signature is for when some of my friends come over to play over LAN, and that is only here and there.

 

[Brian_B]

My son tinkers with computer hardware more than I do anymore - but he has almost no interest in high performance. He could care less what GPU he has, and is strangely just fine with potato settings on his games. He just likes to tear them apart and put them back together.

 

[Niner51]

He just likes to tear them apart and put them back together.

I honestly enjoy the build process over the actual use of the PC. I guess it stems from all the plastic models I enjoyed putting together back in the 80's. I'd go back to it, but man those kits are expensive now.