MAXSUN Designs a GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER with Dual 8-pin PCIe Power Connectors

[btarunr]

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.



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[qlum]

Interedting, I would have guessed the connector was a requirement from nvidia. Now we can at least blame board partners for using that garbage connector.

 

[Dragokar]

Well maybe not only we "western" people are too stupid to connect the hiiiiiighpwr connector.....and so they choose the much more reliable connector.

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.

 

[Emanulele]

Interedting, I would have guessed the connector was a requirement from nvidia. Now we can at least blame board partners for using that garbage connector.

The connect is a requirement, Maxsun can ignore it since they only target the Asian market and Nvidia most probably won't go after them.

 

[Event Horizon]

My PSU has native 12VHPWR and I still want this.

 

[Tomorrow]

The connect is a requirement, Maxsun can ignore it since they only target the Asian market and Nvidia most probably won't go after them.

I doubt that - at least for 4070 or 4070S. There are plenty of 4060, 4060 Ti and 4070 models sold in Europe with 1x8pin connector from most board partners: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=gra16_512&...+05+17+-+RTX+4060+Ti~9816_03+05+17+-+RTX+4070

However there are no 4070 Ti, 4080 or 4090 models with 8pin connectors.