ASRock Taichi: the 12V 2×6 “Nvidia” port on a Radeon RX 9070 (XT) 102 comments
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Last summer, ASRock was the first manufacturer to use the 12VHPWR (PCIe 5.0) “Nvidia connector” or its new 12V-2×6 (PCIe 5.1) compatible edition on a graphics card with an AMD GPU – but only on two workstations – Radeon RX 7900 XT(X) models. Now it’s the turn of the Radeon RX 9070 (XT).
ASRock Taichi with 12V 2×6 connection
This is demonstrated by the images of the ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi from CES 2025 in Las Vegas, published by TechPowerUp. This would be the first use of this variant, used only on gaming graphics cards from Nvidia and its partners since the GeForce RTX 4000, on a Radeon for gamers.
The ASRock Radeon RX 9070 (XT) Taichi relies on 12V-2×6 (Image: TechPowerUp)
Before the 12+4 pin connector, which is officially part of the PCI Express specifications, Nvidia was already using a 12 pin connector without sense pins to communicate with the GeForce RTX 3000 power supply, and partners joined in at that time . But not yet with custom designs.
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Images of other custom designs of the new RDNA 4 graphics cards, about which AMD only commented a single sentence during the AMD CES 2025 press conference, still showed two 8-pin PCIe connectors. This also includes ASRock models from the Steel Legend and Challenger series.
Topics: AMD graphics cards AMD RDNA ASRock CES 2025 Navi Radeon RDNA 4 RX 9070
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