Today as part of our RTX 2070 launch day coverage, Dominic takes a look at the new MSI RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G card. Read our full ...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards are reportedly set to stick with eight-pin power connectors, rather than use the company’s new 12VHPWR connector, suggests a new leak.

so users won’t have to worry about any power connector shenanigans should they choose to upgrade. But this is far from official, so treat the news with some skepticism. The Nvidia RTX 5060 and ...

Nvidia’s latest RTX 50-series GPUs actually use a revised 12V-2×6 power connector, designed to prevent power delivery unless properly seated. Recently during the Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 event in ...

Since Nvidia has released the RTX 5090 some two years after it started using the 12V-2x6 connector, we can safely assume that overheating power connectors will no longer be an issue. Still ...

with leaked benchmarks showing a significant performance difference compared to the RTX 4090. Among these highlights, we also saw Nvidia introduce a new and improved power connector in the RTX 5090 ...

Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing.

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.

But there’s at least one major concern floating around: the fear of power connectors melting, just like we saw with the RTX 4090. And given the $1,999 price tag, nobody wants to deal with a ...

NVIDIA’s forthcoming mid-range GPUs, the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti ... new models will maintain the use of standard 8-pin PCI power connectors. This decision aims to ensure that the new GPUs ...