NVIDIA Unveils Reference GeForce RTX 3090. Unusual Design and 12-Pin Power Connector Confirmed
Less than a week remains until the official announcement of the new generation NVIDIA video cards – GeForce RTX 30 series. The company decided to stir up the already high interest in upcoming innovations by releasing a video dedicated to the evolution of cooling systems for its video cards. In it, she showed sketches of one of the future video cards and revealed some details.
The first detail that caught my eye was not at all related to cooling. We are talking about a completely new connector for additional power supply with 12 pins. Today, video cards usually use 6- or 8-pin connectors, but NVIDIA has proposed a new standard. The use of such a power connector was previously reported, and now NVIDIA has confirmed it.
Interestingly, the new connector is not located in parallel, but perpendicular to the PCB, which saves space on it. The schematic diagram shows that the electronic components are very close to each other on the reference board due to its compactness. We add that NVIDIA promises to supply a 12-pin adapter from a pair of 8-pin connectors with video cards, so you won’t have to buy a new power supply for the GeForce RTX 3090.
NVIDIA also confirmed that the next-generation video cards, or at least some of them, will be built on an irregularly shaped PCB with a V-shaped end. This, in turn, confirms that the novelty will indeed receive a cooling system with fans located on both sides of the radiator, which was shown by previous leaks. The unusual appearance of the new video card NVIDIA showed in the last frames of the video (the first image in the material).
