As we wait for the new generation of AMD Radeon graphics cards to be announced next week, we’re learning a little more about what drives these graphics cards. More specifically, what is not powering these graphics cards?
Radeon Senior Vice President Scott Herkelman said: twitter (opens in new tab) The Radeon RX 6000 series and upcoming RDNA 3 GPUs (probably called the Radeon RX 7000 series) will not use the 12VHPWR power adapter.
Introduced in the ATX 3.0 specification published by Intel, the 12VHPWR adapter delivers up to 600W of power directly to the GPU via a single cable. Now mainly he is used with Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090. (opens in new tab).
However, AMD opts to use the tried and tested PCIe 8-pin connector for its next-gen cards (probably two of them). Although there have been three high-end cards in the past.
AMD’s confirmation follows reports that bending the 600W 12VHPWR power cable near the RTX 4090’s connector can cause overheating issues. (opens in new tab)Some Reddit users have said the power connector on their RTX 4090 graphics card had melted, and some have blamed the connector itself, but the exact cause of these unfortunate failures has yet to be determined. Hmm. Nvidia says it is investigating.
AMD has already teased that its new GPUs will be more power efficient (opens in new tab) Better than Nvidia’s power hungry RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) and its 40-series siblings. RDNA 3 GPUs are also expected to have over 50% efficiency improvement over his previous RDNA 2nd generation GPUs.
More details are expected on November 3rd as AMD officially announces the RDNA 3 GPUs in their ‘together we Advance_gaming’ live stream.
