Custom models of the Radeon RX 9070 XT, one of the first graphics cards to leverage AMD’s all-new RDNA 4 architecture, may not feature 12VHPWR, the 16-pin power connector that some NVIDIA users had claimed led to their GPUs melting down, according to several reports that claim red team isn’t mandating 12V-2×6 for its partners and is, instead, allowing them to stick with traditional 8-pin power connectors. AMD’s supposed plans for the Radeon RX 9000 Series come alongside a separate claim about how the Radeon 9070 XT may draw as much as 330 watts of power—15 watts higher than the Radeon RX 7900 XT (315 TBP), and 25 watts lower than the flagship Radeon RX 7900 XTX (355 TBP). See below for the claim from Chiphell’s zhangzhonghao, who shared the number last week alongside what is said to be a level of performance that’s on par with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080.
The reasons for this could be the same as with the Radeon RX 7900 GRE, the most recently introduced AMD model: The sockets and plugs of the PCI Express standard have proven themselves and are sufficient for a design with up to 375 W.