Monday, January 22nd 2024
MAXSUN Designs a GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER with Dual 8-pin PCIe Power Connectors
MAXSUN is an NVIDIA board partner focused on the Chinese domestic market. The company "innovated" a custom design GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER graphics card that breaks convention of a 12VHPWR power connector, and provides two regular 8-pin PCIe power connectors to draw power from. Although it's quite common to see custom RTX 4070 cards with single 8-pin PCIe power connectors due to its 200 W TGP, with the new RTX 4070 SUPER, NVIDIA increased the power limits, with the TGP now set at 220 W, which meant that nearly every board partner has had to implement the 12VHPWR connector, and include an NVIDIA designed adapter that converts two 8-pin PCIe to a 12VHPWR that's capable of 300 W continuous power delivery.
The MAXSUN card features an 8-pin native PCB design, it directly has the 8-pin connectors on the card, so there's no adapter included. China is a vastly compatibility-conscious market, and so such design choice go a long way to appeal to buyers. The presence of 8-pin PCIe connectors should particularly benefit case compatibility, where the connectors can tolerate much tighter cable bends than 12VHPWR, including with the NVIDIA-designed adapter.
Source:
HXL (Twitter)
The MAXSUN card features an 8-pin native PCB design, it directly has the 8-pin connectors on the card, so there's no adapter included. China is a vastly compatibility-conscious market, and so such design choice go a long way to appeal to buyers. The presence of 8-pin PCIe connectors should particularly benefit case compatibility, where the connectors can tolerate much tighter cable bends than 12VHPWR, including with the NVIDIA-designed adapter.
5 Comments on MAXSUN Designs a GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER with Dual 8-pin PCIe Power Connectors
Attention....yeah there is irony and sarcasm and yes I dont like the 12vhpwr, not even the new revision. Since I saw one clicked in and bent according to requirement and yet it was melting.......
The sad thing is, even ChatGpt could design a more reliable and consumer friendly design......or whats even worse is that there are better solutions in the industry.
However there are no 4070 Ti, 4080 or 4090 models with 8pin connectors.