Gamer's Nexus is gonna need a bigger shirt this time.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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They should switch to a shower curtain.
It's like 600 watts and 50+ amps, its going to get more than hot
50 amps if evenly distributed shouldn't be that much of a problem. The distribution is the problem though. And the lack of headroom just makes it all the more worse. 12v 2x6 should have been limited to 500 watts or even 450 watts, and even then that's pushing it as we found out with the 4090 and bad connections.
The fact that we're discussing literal space heater output levels for a fucking graphics card is insane enough.
Since putting a 4080 in my bedroom, I've not once run my heat, and usually have to keep my window open at least an inch too cool the room off...
I live in Canada, it's currently winter. Window's open.
Really leans into the fact that efficiency means absolutely nothing to GPU manufacturers compared to a 5% gain just by stuff some more watts into it
The 9070 non-XT seems to be relatively efficient per frame!
AMDs always get a wack, ultra safe, and high voltage. I undervolt all my AMD GPUs and CPUs. Makes quite the difference.
Tldr on the problem is that small differences in resistance between conductors and contacts in the cables can result in different currents in each wire. Previous cards would split pairs of pins up and have each of them current balanced (same current drawn in through each). The 40/50 series shorted all of the pins together, which doesnt allow for any current balancing on the GPU side.
Additionally, previous cards would refuse to turn on if any of those shorted pairs were not present - something the new cards can hardly detect. This could allow all but one high side wire to be cut and the GPU might not realize and try to draw all 50+A through a single conductor which is rated for <10A
The 9070xt that Steve at gamersnexus looked at which had the 12vhpwr connector also had this flawed design, but the power on the 9070xt is much much lower, so you are less likely to see a problem on those cards.
Maybe they should build hardware around these Graphics Cards, purpose built for power and heat distribution, say, a console of some type
The KFC gaming airfryer is finally feasible.