Good to see there will be alternatives to the 12 pin BS. Some of us already have good expensive and reliable PSU, dropping another sack of money for something you will only use for the GPU(considering CPU and Mobo prices for AM5, most gamers do not even need them and are extremely expensive) is just a plain bad choice, specially because in as shorts as a couple of months affordable PSU and other "new" components will drop.
The power draw is inevitably going to go higher and higher, thinking otherwise when technology did not make a 180º on the architecture is just wishful thinking, in fact, with ATX 3.0 we are going the opposite way by delivering 600W+ in less than 10ms to a GPU otherwise the system crashes.
When I did my most recent Alder Lake build I oversized the PSU from what I thought I "needed" and made sure it had ample amps on the 12v output and had 3 separate available 8 pin connectors for the plugging in the 12-pin adapter for the GPU.
I also bought a solid well respected name brand and spent a little more for a platinum unit over the gold model more because these models are supposed to generally use a little better grade of components in the PSU build which contribute to the better efficiency ratings.
I was originally waiting for the 4080 to drop but with the recent release of now there will be a lower performing 12g 4080 which of course will be the cheapest model, questions concerning release dates and initial product availability and of course pricing being unknown last week I got off the GPU merry go round and purchased one of the 3090ti cards at their new price point.
Now with yesterday's reveal of EVGA not continuing in the GPU market I think initial 40 series product availability may be affected because at least here in the U.S.A. reports are saying EVGA cards represent about 40%of the Nvidia cards sold in North America.
It will be interesting going forward.
My computer upgrades are done for at least the next two -three years so it does feel better just being a spectator now.