It looks like the last 2 wires on an 8-pin are ground wires. Now I understand the 6-pin is only rated to 75w and the 8-pin to 150w, but being as I'm pulling them off the Molex likes anyways (and it's ...

Apple changed its long-standing 30-pin dock connector out for an 8-pin new standard called Lightning. But what does that actually mean for users? Well the advantages are mostly passed on through ...

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TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5090 graphics card requires 4 x 8-pin connectors for 600W power officially, but can operate with 3 x 8-pin connectors at 450W, seemingly running only 5% slower in 4K benchmarks.

The die shrink from 28nm to 16nm FinFET between Nvidia's Maxwell and Pascal graphics card families has brought about some impressive gains in power efficiency. The GTX 1080, more powerful than a Titan ...