NVIDIA to Bundle Power Adapter with GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
https://www.techpowerup.com/293248/nvidia-to-bundle-power-adapter-with-geforce-rtx-3090-ti
For those looking to invest in a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti card, but being unable to acquire a new power supplies with a 12VHPWR connector, there's good news today, as NVIDIA is said to be bundling a power adapter with the cards. The adapter does have its own requirements though, as it's a three to one type of adapter, which means your power supply still needs to have at least three 8-pin PCIe type power connectors. The adapter is said to be able to deliver 450 Watts of power to the upcoming graphics card, which is in line with the various leaks and rumours about the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
It's worth keeping in mind that these types of mechanical adapters won't allow the graphics card to communicate with the PSU, something that will be reserved for ATX 3.0 power supplies it seems. It'll also lead to some extra cable tangle near the graphics card, as the design of the pictured connector doesn't exactly look slick or space saving. Hopefully some power supply manufacturers will come up with a neater solution, until the transition to ATX 3.0 PSUs take place.
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce...th-3x8-pin-to-pcie-gen5-16-pin-power-adapters
PCIe Gen5 cable adapter to feed 450W of power
The upcoming flagship RTX 3090 Ti graphics card will require special power cable adapters.
According to the leaks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a TDP of 450W. With such a high power input, even two 8-pin PCIe power are not sufficient, such configuration can only sustain 300W of power.
This is a major difference between the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti cards. The Founders Edition of the former flagship SKU released in 2020 features a 12-pin connector (basically the same cable but without the ‘sense’ pins). It shipped with dual 8-pin to 12-pin power adapter. This is obviously enough for the 350W TDP because the card still has access to 75W of power through the PCIe interface.
The RTX 3090 Ti with 100W higher TDP will need three 8-pin power cables or a native implementation of the 12VHPWR (12+4 or 16-pin) PCIe Gen5. However, the power supplies with the native cable will not be available in time for RTX 3090 Ti, which launches on March 29th. For this reason, the adapter is required.
The adapter will provide 450W of power alone and a total of 525W with the PCIe interface. One should expect a number of custom RTX 3090 TI designs to reach 500W of maximum TDP.
The RTX 3090 Ti features a GA102-350 GPU with all 10752 CUDA cores enabled. This is NVIDIA’s first RTX model with 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory and new power connector. The RTX 3090 Ti should be the last flagship Ampere SKUs to launch before NVIDIA unleashes its Ada GPUs later this year.
Ohh yes... while reading this play this tune... :-
RTX 40 series are going to be comical and I bet you, you will see 4090 and 4090ti versions with 2 x 16 pin connectors and even maybe an extreme 4080 version. It has got past a joke now with power use and this is basically warming up AIBs to make the 40 series and how to manage the power, with all this power these cards are going to end up with double the power phases adding to an already expensive card so expect the cost of the power design to add to the costs next round too, we have now seen what Hopper is and at 700w design but it clearly can do another 200-300w more as did with the Ampere A100 that was 400w but also came in 600w versions.
Welcome to brute force computing with silly power use from now on.
https://www.techpowerup.com/293248/nvidia-to-bundle-power-adapter-with-geforce-rtx-3090-ti
For those looking to invest in a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti card, but being unable to acquire a new power supplies with a 12VHPWR connector, there's good news today, as NVIDIA is said to be bundling a power adapter with the cards. The adapter does have its own requirements though, as it's a three to one type of adapter, which means your power supply still needs to have at least three 8-pin PCIe type power connectors. The adapter is said to be able to deliver 450 Watts of power to the upcoming graphics card, which is in line with the various leaks and rumours about the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
It's worth keeping in mind that these types of mechanical adapters won't allow the graphics card to communicate with the PSU, something that will be reserved for ATX 3.0 power supplies it seems. It'll also lead to some extra cable tangle near the graphics card, as the design of the pictured connector doesn't exactly look slick or space saving. Hopefully some power supply manufacturers will come up with a neater solution, until the transition to ATX 3.0 PSUs take place.
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce...th-3x8-pin-to-pcie-gen5-16-pin-power-adapters
PCIe Gen5 cable adapter to feed 450W of power
The upcoming flagship RTX 3090 Ti graphics card will require special power cable adapters.
According to the leaks, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti has a TDP of 450W. With such a high power input, even two 8-pin PCIe power are not sufficient, such configuration can only sustain 300W of power.
This is a major difference between the RTX 3090 and RTX 3090 Ti cards. The Founders Edition of the former flagship SKU released in 2020 features a 12-pin connector (basically the same cable but without the ‘sense’ pins). It shipped with dual 8-pin to 12-pin power adapter. This is obviously enough for the 350W TDP because the card still has access to 75W of power through the PCIe interface.
The RTX 3090 Ti with 100W higher TDP will need three 8-pin power cables or a native implementation of the 12VHPWR (12+4 or 16-pin) PCIe Gen5. However, the power supplies with the native cable will not be available in time for RTX 3090 Ti, which launches on March 29th. For this reason, the adapter is required.
The adapter will provide 450W of power alone and a total of 525W with the PCIe interface. One should expect a number of custom RTX 3090 TI designs to reach 500W of maximum TDP.
The RTX 3090 Ti features a GA102-350 GPU with all 10752 CUDA cores enabled. This is NVIDIA’s first RTX model with 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory and new power connector. The RTX 3090 Ti should be the last flagship Ampere SKUs to launch before NVIDIA unleashes its Ada GPUs later this year.
Ohh yes... while reading this play this tune... :-
RTX 40 series are going to be comical and I bet you, you will see 4090 and 4090ti versions with 2 x 16 pin connectors and even maybe an extreme 4080 version. It has got past a joke now with power use and this is basically warming up AIBs to make the 40 series and how to manage the power, with all this power these cards are going to end up with double the power phases adding to an already expensive card so expect the cost of the power design to add to the costs next round too, we have now seen what Hopper is and at 700w design but it clearly can do another 200-300w more as did with the Ampere A100 that was 400w but also came in 600w versions.
Welcome to brute force computing with silly power use from now on.
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