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Captain_Yuri said:

AMD rumored to launch Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rumored-to-launch-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-graphics-card

AMD Radeon RX 7000 cards reportedly not using PCIe Gen5 “12VHPWR” connector

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-7000-cards-reportedly-not-using-pcie-gen5-12vhpwr-connector

Even though I believe AMD should make it easier to differentiate the cards by its name, like they did with the 6800 and the 6800XT, not too different from Nvidia's regular and Ti cards), I actually prefer this option than going with the 7950XT name we saw rumored.
At least it leaves room for the (inevitable) revision model in a year or so.

Going with regular 8xpin power connectors doesn't sound too bad given what's going on right now, but it will be very weird if there's a card with four of those.

Captain_Yuri said:

Rambus announces availability of PCIe Express 6.0 interface subsystem

https://videocardz.com/press-release/rambus-announces-availability-of-pcie-express-6-0-interface-subsystem

Well, we still don't have SSD nor GPUs that use the 5.0 standard so, it will take a while before this one is needed.

Captain_Yuri said:
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Lol what a shit show... All the engineering effort that went into creating the 4090... A GPU that's 70% faster than a 3090 in Raster while maintaining sub 60C while barely ramping up the fans... Cucked by the need to put a shitty connector onto it that has the potential to at best, to turn your GPU into a brick or at worst... Set your PC on fire...

I'm going to play devil's advocade here: the 3090Ti launched with the same 16-pin connector and adapters, and it actually used more power than a 4090, yet we didn't have so many stories about this at the same time. So yeah, the adapters may not be good enough, but there seems to be something else at play. I wonder if the fixed transients, that cause smaller power spikes at the expense of them lasting a bit longer, may have something to do with it.

In any case, it may be a good idea to way until you can get a new PSU with a 16-pin power conector before getting a 4090 card. You may save yourself some troubles.