News MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs to feature yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters

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MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs will be shipping with yellow-tipped 16-pin PCIe power adapters to ensur users fully insert the connectors into the GPUs

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[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

The RTX 50-series GPUs, part of Nvidia's next-generation line-up, will reportedly continue to use the PCIe Gen 5 16-pin connector, also known as the 12VHPWR connector.

My desire for an RTX 5000 series continues to diminish with every new report...

 

[ezst036]

Dongles?

I do not think GPUs need to go through Apple-ification just because of bad choices made in regard to power delivery.

 

[Kashmir35]

I thought the new 12V-2x6 connector present on the RTX 50-series GPUs already solved all of that.

 

[jlake3]

Dongles?

I do not think GPUs need to go through Apple-ification just because of bad choices made in regard to power delivery.

While I think 12VHPWR is poorly designed due to insufficient safety margins, a minimum bend radius that is unrealistic for the way people use cables in the real world, and poor tactile feedback/not tight enough locking leading to backout, adapters happen for every new connector. I've got Molex-to-SATA, 2xMolex-to-PCIe 6-pin, and 6-pin-to-8-pin adapters in my box of cables.

They wanna sell new cards to people with old PSUs, and putting an adapter in the box means no surprise second trips that annoy buyers and (theoretically) they're using better adapters that don't generate support tickets instead of the cheapest thing they could find on the shadiest eBay store.

 

[3tank]

Great- another banana bunch that I'll struggle to fit in my case

 

[Greg7579]

The article made a mistake in not mentioning if this 12VHPWR connector is the new 12V-2x6 version, which looks identical but has both longer and shorter pins where it counts. I'm sure this MSI cable has the 12V-2x6 version of the connector on the GPU end.

And why not on both ends? Why the three dangles? All new PSUs are ATX 3.0 or 3.1 and have the 12VHPWR connector in the new 12V-2x6 version on the PSU. For those PSUs that do not (like Corsair) the PSU maker supplies the cables that work best with their PSU and have the new 12V-2x6 on the GPU end.

I'm sure that 12VHPWR connector on the GPU end is a 12V-2x6 right?

 

[Amdlova]

Oh my gosh... They trying to make clear that melting connector will be user error!

 

[TJ Hooker]

The article made a mistake in not mentioning if this 12VHPWR connector is the new 12V-2x6 version, which looks identical but has both longer and shorter pins where it counts. I'm sure this MSI cable has the 12V-2x6 version of the connector on the GPU end.

And why not on both ends? Why the three dangles? All new PSUs are ATX 3.0 or 3.1 and have the 12VHPWR connector in the new 12V-2x6 version on the PSU. For those PSUs that do not (like Corsair) the PSU maker supplies the cables that work best with their PSU and have the new 12V-2x6 on the GPU end.

I'm sure that 12VHPWR connector on the GPU end is a 12V-2x6 right?

There are no changes to the cable plug connector between 12VHPWR vs 12V-2x6, so that distinction isn't applicable here. Only the header on the graphics card (and PSU, if modular) changed.

 

[Greg7579]

There are no changes to the cable plug connector between 12VHPWR vs 12V-2x6, so that distinction isn't applicable here. Only the header on the graphics card (and PSU, if modular) changed.

TJ-I did not know that!!!! That is great info and I have for many months thought that the plug end on the cable also had a change and had this new 12V-2x6 update. But only the connectors on the PSU end and the GPU end have the change because that is where the pins are. That has been a censusing thing for me for a while. Thanks!

But it is confusing because new Corsair PSUs that are ATX3.1 advertise that they have a 12V-2x6 cable. They show the picture of the cables and label the cable as 12V-2x6.

 

[TJ Hooker]

TJ-I did not know that!!!! That is great info and I have for many months thought that the plug end on the cable also had a change and had this new 12V-2x6 update. But only the connectors on the PSU end and the GPU end have the change because that is where the pins are. That has been a censusing thing for me for a while. Thanks!

But it is confusing because new Corsair PSUs that are ATX3.1 advertise that they have a 12V-2x6 cable. They show the picture of the cables and label the cable as 12V-2x6.

Oops, yeah the label is the one thing that changed for the cable plugs haha. So I guess advertising them as 12V-2x6 cables is technically correct. Also probably just easier for consumers to understand; most don't know or care what the new spec entails (practically nothing in this case), just that it meets the new spec.