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Cyran on 26 October 2022
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JEMC said:

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.

To my knowledge there was not a single adapter for 3090TI that was not 3x8pin too 12 pin while the 4090 come with a 4x8pin to 12 pin so that would lead me to believe that the 4090 is capable of pulling a lot more power then 3090TI through the 12 pin.  Do you know of a case 3090TI using a 4x8 pin to 12 pin adapter?