The 12VHPWR and 12V-2×6 adapters are both developed to resolve a genuine issue: providing numerous watts of power to high-end GPUs over a single cable television instead of attempting to fit numerous 8-pin power adapters onto these GPUs. In theory, switching 2 to 4 8-pin adapters for a single 12V-2×6 or 12VHPWR adapter minimizes the quantity of board area OEMs need to schedule for these ports in their styles and the variety of cable televisions that users need to snake through the within their video gaming PCs.

While Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, Arm, and other business are all PCI-SIG members and all had a hand in the style of the brand-new requirements, Nvidia is the only GPU business to utilize the 12VHPWR and 12V-2×6 ports in many of its GPUs. AMD and Intel have actually continued to utilize the 8-pin power adapter, and even a few of Nvidia’s partners have actually stuck to 8-pin adapters for lower-end, lower-power cards like the RTX 4060 and 4070 series.

Both of the reported 5090 occurrences included third-party cable televisions, one from custom-made PC part producer MODDIY and one consisted of with an FSP power supply, instead of the first-party 8-pin adapter that Nvidia materials with GeForce GPUs. It’s much prematurely to state whether these cable televisions (or Nvidia, or the style of the port, or the impacted users) triggered the issue or whether this was simply a coincidence.

We’ve gotten in touch with Nvidia to see whether it understands and examining the reports and will upgrade this piece if we get an action.