Both the 12VHPWR and 12V-2×6 connectors are designed to solve real problems. Rather than trying to attach multiple 8-pin power connectors to these GPUs, it delivers hundreds of watts of power to the high-end GPUs over a single cable. In theory, replacing two to four 8-pin connectors on a single 12V-2×6 or 12VHPWR connector will cut the amount of board space. Their gaming PC.
However, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, ARM and other companies are all PCI-SIG members and are all working on designing new standard, but Nvidia is the only one using 12VHPWR and 12V-2X6 connectors. It is a GPU company. Most of the GPUs. AMD and Intel continue to use 8-pin power connectors, and even some of Nvidia’s partners are sticking to 8-pin connectors for low-end low-power cards such as the RTX 4060 and 4070 series.
Both reported 5090 incidents included third-party cables from custom PC parts manufacturer moddiy and what was included in the FSP power supply, rather than the first-party 8-pin adapter Nvidia supplies to the Geforce GPU . It is too early to say whether these cables (or nvidia, or the design of the connector, or the affected users) caused the problem or whether this was just a coincidence.
We will contact Nvidia to see if we are aware of the report and investigate it, and update this article if we receive a response.
