[STEAM] New AMD Radeon RX 8000 gaming GPUs could have 16-pin power connectors, says leak

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AMD Radeon and Intel Arc cards, though. While both companies have lost significant market share to Nvidia recently, they also haven't had to deal with numerous warranty returns for cards with melted 16-pin connectors, and the same can't be said for Nvidia.

The original 12VHPWR connector used on the

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, among other Nvidia GPUs, has been a source of controversy, with wide-ranging reports of smoking graphics cards and

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. The situation appears to have improved with the introduction of the safer

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connector, though, which is now used on a lot of Nvidia GPUs, and is also expected to be used on the new

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. It's this latter socket that

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are apparently testing right now.

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