Monday, May 29th 2023
ASUS Shows Concept GeForce RTX 4070 Without Power Connector
At its Computex 2023 showcase and ASUS HQ tour for the press, the company has unveiled a new ASUS ROG concept graphics card based on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 design, that actually has no standard power connectors, but draws power from the motherboard via a proprietary slot.
As noted, the graphics card is still in its concept phase, and actually draws power from a special PCIe like slot connector at the bottom of the graphics card. Of course, this also means that it will need a special motherboard, which ASUS had on display as well. The motherboard is based on a Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard, with a design that had all the connectors at the back of the motherboard. In addition to the standard power and other connectors like SATA ports, it also includes three 8-pin PCIe and single 12VHPWR connector, which are meant to power the graphics card. Of course, such motherboard also requires a special PC case that have cut-outs for those connectors.
ASUS is currently limiting the design to 600 W and the GeForce RTX 4070 as this is still under development, and ASUS is keeping a lot of information under NDA, but we might have heard that there are plans for a possible GeForce RTX 4090 version as well. We should have more information soon and update the article accordingly, but according to information known so far, these could be available globally and as a limited edition, as ASUS tests the market and demand for such products.
Source:
Wccftech
As noted, the graphics card is still in its concept phase, and actually draws power from a special PCIe like slot connector at the bottom of the graphics card. Of course, this also means that it will need a special motherboard, which ASUS had on display as well. The motherboard is based on a Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard, with a design that had all the connectors at the back of the motherboard. In addition to the standard power and other connectors like SATA ports, it also includes three 8-pin PCIe and single 12VHPWR connector, which are meant to power the graphics card. Of course, such motherboard also requires a special PC case that have cut-outs for those connectors.
55 Comments on ASUS Shows Concept GeForce RTX 4070 Without Power Connector
Leave it to AsAss to create some proprietary nonsense to lock people into to their ecosystem...:mad:
Yea, like I REALLY want to be pulling 600+w through my pcie slots, yea, uh huh, right...
4090s draw that sort of power now on their own!!
consumers are not good at making critical choices. engineers with relevant education must do that.
i.e. Having to connect a power cable to SSDs always drove me nuts and is a big reason my current build only uses m.2 drives.
As if current 12VHPWR are not much more of a fire hazard?
Less cables is the future. SSD's have already moved to PCIe and it's much easier to deal with M.2 than it it with SATA.
That at 75 watts was enough to power gpu's in the past by itself just fine, now that we need more, why not just upgrade that part?
This is even worse
But as it's proprietary technology it will be hard to resell this when upgrading as only a few people will run the same compatible hardware.
I have not heard of a single 8pin incident that caused a fire. Can you link some source?
Also 8pin has been on the market for far longer and is in use by many more people than 12VHPWR. Proportionally one could assume that by the age and number of users 8pin should have more incidents. Still by the same logic 12VHPWR has had high proportionally number of incidents considering the short age and small number of users.
There hasnt been a single fire with the 12vhpwr,and every occasion that resulted in a a damaged connector was due to poor instalation of the actual cable.