When AMD now allow for the use of the new mini power connector for workstations and GPU's for rendering farms... Be you sure that they also will use same connector junk for gamer cards as well. They are all in for cutting cost on pcb design and reduce the cost of the power connector. Tragic. Greed and stupidity beat common sense.
The best connector nvidia could have used is the 8-pin EPS connectors who is rated for 300W by ATX standards. Yup, within the old ATX standard (vanilla 8-pin PCIe (6+2) is rated for 150W by ATX but can easly do +288W with modern good quality PSU). Sadly nvidia went total idiot and used this new cute mini 12+4 pin connector only to make their GPU PCB cheaper and smaller.
PCI Sig and their parners should have designed this thiny modern fragile power connector 60% larger and with a real hook and latch. And nvidia should have required that all AIB partners need to use 2x 16 pin for all 4090 as Galax did for their HOF model. Stupid is the new norm nowadays. You can see all too much new modern hardware aka trash being realised nowadays and sold to dumb people. Yep, idiots everywhere.
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