This is nuts! A total power consumption of up to 975W … You’ll need at least a power supply with a capacity of 1500W or more.
Taken from TPU .. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is real, and coming to gamers miners within Q1 2022. The new SKU maxes out NVIDIA’s largest silicon based on the GeForce “Ampere” graphics architecture, the GA102, and pairs it with even faster 21 Gbps GDDR6X memory; but these changes come at a significant impact on power, with the typical board power for a stock RTX 3090 Ti reportedly being rated at 450 W, compared to the 350 W value of the RTX 3090. For enthusiast-class custom-design boards such as the EVGA KINGPIN, this only means even more elaborate setups, as QuasarZone forums found out.
While the current RTX 3090 KINGPIN comes with three 8-pin PCIe power connectors, a configuration capable of delivering up to 525 W (including the PCIe slot), the new RTX 3090 Ti KINGPIN ropes in the small but mighty 12-pin Molex MicroFit 3.0 connector, and comes with not one, but two of them! NVIDIA debuted the 12-pin connector in the consumer space with its RTX 30-series Founders Edition graphics cards. The connector is capable of delivering 450 W of power. With two of these on the RTX 3090 Ti, you’re looking at a maximum power input capability of 975 W! It’s only now, that PSUs are shipping with 12-pin cables, and even the high-Wattage ones we’ve come across, only pack one such connector. The EVGA card could hence include several dual- or triple-8-pin to 12-pin adapter cables. Pictured below is the RTX 3090 KINGPIN.
There are other interesting bits of information from the QuasarZone leak. Apparently the PCB will be significantly different from that of the RTX 3090 KINGPIN, and current EVGA HydroCopper water-blocks won’t be compatible with it. As of late-December, the card’s development cycle had just completed PCB design, and the company is reportedly tuning its BIOS to find the right factory-overclock to ship the card with, which should undergo rigorous testing for stability. QuasarZone expects retail availability only after March 2022.
Source: TPU, QuasarZone Forums, HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
