Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 May Be Equipped with 2 16-Pin Power Connectors

TapTechNews September 24th news, the tech media tweaktown released a blog post on September 21st, reporting that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card may be equipped with 2 16-Pin power connectors.

The media visited the MSI factory located in Shenzhen, China, and discovered the brand-new 1600W MEGA i1600 TPCIE5 and 1250W MPGA1250 (future versions of 1000W and 850W may be launched) PSU power supplies.

These two PSU power supplies are equipped with 2 12V-2x6 power connectors (an upgraded version of 12VHPWR, and a single cable can provide a maximum power of 600 watts).

MSI said that the reason for increasing the power connector is to meet the needs of the next-generation graphics card, so the media speculates that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card may be equipped with 2 16-Pin power connectors.

TapTechNews reported on September 4th that the power consumption of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is 600 watts, while the power consumption of the RTX 5080 graphics card is 400 watts.

For comparison, the power consumption of the Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics card is 450 watts, and the power consumption of the Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card increases by 150 watts to 600 watts, an increase of 33%; while the power consumption of the Nvidia 4080 graphics card is 320 watts, and the power consumption of the Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card increases by 80 watts to 400 watts, an increase of 25%.