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>heavily differentiating the H100 products by their interface this go around, which I find quite odd. Power draw. The 4090 pulls 450 watts, and is destroying c
by sbierwagen 3y ago
>heavily differentiating the H100 products by their interface this go around, which I find quite odd.
Power draw. The 4090 pulls 450 watts, and is destroying connectors. H100 SXM uses 700 watts.
If the PCI consortium wants NVIDIA to use their standard for top end products, they need to make a better connector.
- lyu07282 3y agoIt was a cheap power adapter design that was sold by Nvidia that caused the melting, it was nvidias own doing selling a cheap cable on a $1,600 card. Using proprietary interfaces has everything to do with monopolistic behavior and nothing with faulty standards.
- nullindividual 3y ago12VHPWR is art of the ATX 3.0 standard and not proprietary to nVidia.
- lyu07282 3y agoThe adapter caused the issue not the connector itself, nobody who used power supplies with a native connector had any issues. I was talking about the SXM interface instead of PCIe