Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re once again fire-prone.

A Chinese manufacturer has come up with a 12VHPWR adapter featuring active cooling and real-time power monitoring, aiming to mitigate concerns of melting GPU power connectors. The unique angled ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...

With the max spec of the 12VHPWR connection being 600W, a cable with up to five wires broken could go from six wires pulling 100W each to one wire pulling 600W, resulting in a major problem.

Unlike older cables based on the original 12VHPWR standard, the new models produced from 2025 onward come with thicker wiring and improved materials for both connectors and terminal housings.

The 16-pin connector, better known as 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 (the most recent iteration) features four sense pins, six current pins (+12V), and six ground pins. In theory, all six 12V pins should be ...

Although the current flows to the graphics card via six 12-volt wires with the 12VHPWR connector and its ... At full load, he measured 20 amps on a single wire, i.e. 240 watts – the ...