TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

In a video interview with Intel Graphics Innovation Fellow Tom "TAP" Peterson and HotHardware, we get a tiny glimpse of the Intel Arc GPU with 3 x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. We don't know anything ...

Nvidia's new RTX 4090 and 4080 GPUs both use a new connector called 12VHPWR to deliver power as a way to satisfy ever-more power-hungry graphics cards without needing to set aside the physical space ...

User Wing King posted images of a 12V-2x6 connector prototype on Bilibili, capable of monitoring current across each pin.The design has been developed to help monitor the current on each 12V pin of ...

Graphics Cards MSI's monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to 'completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes', apparently Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2025 ...

It's no secret that the latest graphics cards from AMD and especially Nvidia are power-hungry beasts, and all indications are the next-gen GPUs will be even hungrier. With rumors that both companies ...