News Leaked images of Asus' GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB show a 16-pin connector for power

[Admin]

With barely a month left for the launch of the RTX 40 Super series graphics cards, a leaked image of the upcoming ASUS GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB GDDR6X shows a 16-pin connector.

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

but it seems the manufacturer decided to use the 16-pin 12VHPWR connector for the RTX 4070 Super OC instead

The decision probably went like this:

nVidia: You're using 12VHPWR on the 4070 Super or you won't be making nVidia GPUs anymore.

ASUS: Deal!

 

[Skramblr]

What many people do not know. If you refer to the PCIe CEM specs, the 12VHPWR is basically obsoleted and replaced by a newer version called 12V-2x6 power connector. I'd be surprised if Nvidia is continuing to use the problematic 12VHPR plug design. TomsHW even even did a story about the new connector https://www.tomshardware.com/news/12v-2x6-connector-tested

I just noticed the article was written bay a 'free lance' author, so probably not one of Tom's HW knowledgeable engineers that would have noticed this likely error.


-Dan

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

"12VHP" is probably going to be just the community colloquial name for the 12 pin power plug even though it's technically not correct, like how people say "4K" even though "true" 4K is 4096 × 2160 and "consumer" 4K (UHD) is 3840x2160, and "1440p" instead of "QHD/2560x1440"

 

[spicy_cat]

Why are they doing this when a single 8-pin would be perfectly fine?

 

[thestryker]

I wouldn't be surprised if nvidia was pushing board partners towards the 16-pin connector for any card that would require more than a single PCIe power connector. Given that the 4070 is a 200W part and 4070 Ti 285W it wouldn't be a stretch for the 4070 Super to fall into that category.

 

[HaninTH]

"4K" should be 8192 × 4320p, not this cheat 2K (2160p) res that the industry has given us. If they knew they couldn't continue their cadence after 1080p, they should never have standardized on using the vertical resolution as the signifier and instead using the horizontal resolution as they do now.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

"4K" should be 8192 × 4320p, not this cheat 2K (2160p) res that the industry has given us. If they knew they couldn't continue their cadence after 1080p, they should never have standardized on using the vertical resolution as the signifier and instead using the horizontal resolution as they do now.

That resolution naming of p came from television standards and not from actual displays.

In computing resolutions were always full specifications for horizontal and vertical because of the variation of displays and computing standards.