Jul 26, 2023 12:05:00

ASUS plans to produce ``GeForce RTX 4070 with no power cables'' from the fall of 2023

According to the hardware news site Extremetech, 'cableless' is booming among PC parts manufacturers, and at the computer-related trade fair '

COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2023 ' held in Taiwan in early June 2023, Several manufacturers exhibited motherboards and graphic boards designed to make it easier to organize cables. One of them, ASUS, has announced a ``GeForce RTX 4070-equipped graphic board that eliminates any auxiliary power cable'' and has revealed that it will start production in the fall of 2023 due to the favorable reaction. bottom.

ASUS's Connector-Less GeForce RTX 4070 GPUs To Go In Mass Production This Fall, White Variant Revealed
https://wccftech.com/asus-connector-less-geforce-rtx-4070-gpus-mass-production-fall-white-variant-revealed/

Asus to Begin Production of Cable-Free GPUs This Year | Extremetech
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/asus-to-begin-production-of-cable-free-gpus-this-year

Graphics boards with high-performance GPUs usually require a separate power supply with a cable as an auxiliary power supply. The GeForce RTX 4070-equipped graphic board exhibited by ASUS at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2023 has become a hot topic because it uses a unique slot that does not require an auxiliary power cable.

This is the graphics board with GeForce RTX 4070 announced by ASUS.

The back looks like this. It looks almost the same as a general graphics board.

The decisive difference is the terminal part. There is a unique terminal apart from the connection terminal of PCI Express Gen 4.0 x16.

Below is a photo zoomed into the terminal part. This is a 16-pin terminal originally developed by ASUS, and it seems that it can supply up to 600 W of power. Although the standard name of this power supply terminal has not been clarified, it seems that a label with the code name 'GC_HPWR' was affixed to the graphic board and motherboard exhibited at the demonstration.

In order to use this power cable-less graphic board, of course the connected motherboard must have a GC_HPWR port.

ASUS showed the Z790 TUF Gaming motherboard with this GC_HPWR port for a demo at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2023. According to ASUS, the reaction to this demo was so positive that it will start producing graphics boards and motherboards equipped with GC_HPWR from the fall of 2023. First of all, we will produce a small number and see the reaction of the market, and then we will move to a further production system.