Custom models of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, one of the first graphics cards to leverage AMD’s all-new RDNA 4 architecture, may not feature 12VHPWR, the 16-pin power connector that some NVIDIA users had ...

According to Prohardver, this connector could replace the established 8-pin and 6-pin power connectors, which have been used in graphics cards without any problems so far. It appears that Chipzilla ...

High-performance connectors like 12V-2×6, sometimes called 12VHPWR, deliver significant current to advanced graphics cards such as the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition. Each connector pin ...

When PCI-SIG introduced the 12VHPWR power connector as a replacement for the 6- and 8-pin PCIe power connectors, it created a wave of controversy. There were enough cases of melting GPUs, PSUs, and ...

The ASUS Turbo Radeon AI Pro R9700 is ASUS’s take on AMD’s new high‑performance workstation GPU, the Radeon AI Pro R9700. At its core, this card inherits the same advanced GPU architecture AMD ...

The 12VHPWR graphics card connector has made a name for itself for all the wrong reasons, with the component frequently melting and causing the death of many a GPU. Now, graphics card manufacturers ...

There’s a hot new power connector in the desktop PC world… and by hot, we mean “literally melting.” Issues with the new 12VHPWR power connector design for the latest PCIe 5.0-compliant graphics cards ...

What just happened? It had to finally happen: someone has reported a case of a 12VHPWR connector that melted while connected to an AMD card. This sort of problem is a relatively common occurrence on ...