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Sapphire does the unthinkable and puts 16-pin power connector on an RX 9070 XT


It took an AMD AIB partner to make one of the most aesthetically pleasing implementations of the 16-pin connector.

The closest Nvidia cards that mimic Sapphire's design are the Gigabyte RTX 4090 Windforce V2, which sport side-angled 16-pin connectors but nothing to cover the cable. How many partner variants will opt to go with the newer 16-pin standard is unknown, but the new connector won't be a mainstream option on these GPUs. Besides its fancy cable-hiding trickery, the RX 9070 XT is a large triple-fan triple-slot graphics card with a silver color scheme.

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