Sorry in advance for my language, but those guys in Nvidia and elsewhere that trying to convince us we need new PSU with new cables and stuff really need a kick in the but. I mean like seriously, is not enough that everything and every manufacturer has gone crazy high with their prices, we need a new psu on top of that! Even in 4090 which is power hungry monster, the new adapter cables are not necessary, they could have gone with 3x8 pin connectors like we have seen lot of times in the past. Thumbs up to corsair and other psu manufactures that offer cables with 12pin connectors to their existing psu's and don't enforce PSU switch for no reason.

I hope they include a beefed-up 12pin plug adapter.

Everybody complains about the 12pin connector. Alright, let's take it for what it is. Are AIBs even allowed to build cards with 8pins if they decided to? Doesn't Nvidia force them to use those by their rules?

It may be in their best interest to consider a right angle adapter with new cards. I personally use them to keep my cable runs clean and to not get in the way of tubing for my card. My cables have no bend at the card itself and it maintains a clean appearance.

It uses less power than 4090 maybe there will be less chance to burst in flames. 😀

Nice, so we went from MSRP 700 USD (3080 10gb) or 800 USD (3080 12gb) straight to 1200 USD for xx80 tier card. Thats brutal?! Glad I scored 3080 10gb for the price I used to pay for 970 2nd hand back in the days. Ppl went really nuts when the 40xx was announced plus ETH mining cancelled. I knew this 40xx series will be totally out of the reach for me, and I was right. Honestly, I hope this fires up on em (eh..) 1st they completely abandoned gamers TWICE when they had a chance, now this. Guys, you fed the beast up with your cash properly! Now its just out of the leash.

Nobody is forcing anyone to buy from this overpriced series. The original Titan at $1000 seemed like an extremely bad deal, since the 780 Ti was very close to it in performance and only $699, and now $1200-$2000 cards are the new normal ? F. that, I'm not playing that game. I really hope Ada series crash and burn hard (figuratively speaking, as literally they are already burning 🙄) after AMD launches RDNA3. Nvidia really needs to learn a lesson, this madness has gone long enough.

haste:

Another card with 12PIN connector. That's not what I wanted to see.

Oh, you mean the perfectly fine connector that has nothing to do with the adapters burning? Interesting.

sfdmark:

Mumbling

Sorry bud you don't need a new PSU, sorry you're in that state of mind of complaining without seeing what you're saying. Sure, if you don't want an adapter, or don't want to get new cables for your existing PSU, which also isn't required, then sure you "need" a new PSU, but that's all on you, no one is forcing you to get a new PSU and you can run any of these cards just fine without it. The only, only issue currently is nvidias adapter quality, that is it.

hatchet_ryda:

It may be in their best interest to consider a right angle adapter with new cards. I personally use them to keep my cable runs clean and to not get in the way of tubing for my card. My cables have no bend at the card itself and it maintains a clean appearance.

I'm not sure why this isn't more common, heck a right angle power that directs the cable toward the back of your PCB at the end of the GPU would also be nice, cables go directly towards the back of the PCB and doesn't impede airflow. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HgLQQVKxMcSxxzDB7mG2kH-320-80.jpg Like that, but end of the PCB/GPU, not the back https://www.cgdirector.com/wp-content/uploads/media/2022/06/8-pin-GPU-Power-Connector.jpg Basically there, but turned 90 degrees and pushed out.

A press fit for 600 watts, sorry but this needs to be a clamped or screwed connection. Its a fire hazard its that simple.

Martin5000:

A press fit for 600 watts, sorry but this needs to be a clamped or screwed connection. Its a fire hazard its that simple.

Where's your electrical engineering degree? Also, interesting that our power supplies people having been using for ages using north of 1000 watts depending on your config, or even rather something as simple as a 1200 watt microwave oven, and various other products people have in their houses, don't screw into the wall, but rather have a press fit connection to the wall.

fantaskarsef:

Everybody complains about the 12pin connector. Alright, let's take it for what it is. Are AIBs even allowed to build cards with 8pins if they decided to? Doesn't Nvidia force them to use those by their rules?

Personally I don't complain, and no I think Nvidia is controlling the designs of AiB partners, so I don't think they r allowed to do so. My corsair PSU has a cable from it to 12pin, so in the case I would have a 4090 I wouldn't even use the adapter. The assumption from Nvidia that these adapters will not be bent is very stupid though. I mean you have already a huge card to fit in a case and you trying to manage the cable the best you can, how on earth you will let 15+ cm of un-bendable cable pointing towards outside the case?

Hopefully this card is a beast at 1440.

@Aura89 The adapter Nvidia and AIB partners offering is a state of transition cause atm there are very few and very expensive PSUs that offer 12 pin connections. If things were normal, or let's say in year from now, they will not give you adapter, cause they will assume you have a compatible PSU. Personally as I said before, if I had to connect my PSU to a 12 pin I wouldn't have any problem cause there is a cheap cable from my PSU manufacturer to do so. For those that can't do that , they have to use the un-bendable cable to connect their cards and have enough space in their pc case to fit it without bending it. I assure you, that in any case I would have never used this adapter though. If you look closely to what the owners/users of the adapter had, you would see that only one had Nvidia Fe, the rest had AiBs cards. So basically is not the quality of Nvidia's adapter. They could offer and 90 degree angled adapter to avoid any bendings ( or like the ones you posted with pcbs and embedded connectors) , but that would probably add to the costs and Ngridia doesn't want that. In my initial post I expressed my concerns and my questions, why Nvidia is sticking and insist to use 12Pin cable even though the wattage requirements are not that hight to make it mandatory. And assuming they want a safe margin for 4090 watt consumption (which I can understand), the 4080 will have considerably lower consumption, so making that 12pin use kind of questionable. Also AMD's upcoming cards will not use this 12pin connector or adapter. P.S. I never said Mumbling???

It's a good looking card, I'll definitely give it that.

haste:

Another card with 12PIN connector. That's not what I wanted to see.

Should be less of an issue the lower in sku we go.

haste:

Another card with 12PIN connector. That's not what I wanted to see.

You can wait a week to see some without from AMD. 🙂

From cracked PCB's to stability issues, Gigabyte needs to vastly step up quality before I would ever buy any of their cards.

haste:

True, but then the whole 12PIN looses its purpose of delivering up-to 600W. This card for example would be comfortable with 2x8PIN. There is no point using 12PIN on lower-end cards.

Why use 2 8 pins when you can use one 12 pin? Heck, why use 8 or 6 pins at all when you can use one connector for all cards that need additional power? Literally makes no sense, the only 'valid' argument there is "i don't want to change, i hate change, you can't make me"

haste:

Wrong. The valid argument is that every other peripheral is using 6 or 8 pin. The new 12PIN is literally going to be a "GPU connector" which will be used on graphics cards only. So simply they are adding one more redundant connector to the mix and forcing enthusiasts to throw away good PSUs or use idiotic adapter cable causing fire.

Nvidia, and Intel, I guess, must be planning that after some period of time the new connector will replace the old one. I believe there are also plans to replace the behemoth mobo power connector with a more compact one. At the end of the day having two separate power cables, let alone three, connected to a graphics card isn't very elegant. That's why I don't object to this change, as long as it's handled smartly. Nvidia's penny-pinching, fire hazard adapter isn't smart.

fantaskarsef:

Everybody complains about the 12pin connector. Alright, let's take it for what it is. Are AIBs even allowed to build cards with 8pins if they decided to? Doesn't Nvidia force them to use those by their rules?

This could be a factor of why EVGA has told Nvidia to F*** off.