Mastasmoker t1_itxy5tk wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:53 AM

Reply to comment by jakejm79 in Melted RTX 4090 16-pin Adapters: A Sign of Things to Come? | This was using the standard 12VHPWR 4x8-pin to 16-pin adapter by chrisdh79

Even still, why not spread it out? Why double up if it can be done more safely with 4x8 vs a single 16?

jakejm79 t1_itxynut wrote on October 27, 2022 at 2:57 AM

For this generation 4x 8pin might not be a big deal, but in the future you could be looking at 6x 8pin or more. Also there are additional benefits when the 12+4pin is paired with an ATX 3.0 PSU.

You have to remember that with an 8 pin connector it's really just 6 pins for the power delivery.

They could have done something like they did with the dual 8 pin cables, basically made a pigtail 12 pin with each connector at the GPU just doing 300w for 600w total, but you'd still have 600w from the single 12 pin at the PSU, plus they were trying to reduce the number/size of connections on the GPU.