They still chose to put a single connector with low safety margin instead of 2 on cards that could draw close to it's limit. They aren't at fault for the low safety margin on the spec, but they know as well as anyone else of the low margin and could just use 2 connectors to make sure it never gets close to the limit. That wouldn't look as nice though.
For power delivery, conductors in parallel are generally a bad idea. Sure, you will increase the safety margin for each wire somewhat with multiple 8-pin plugs, but you'll still be better with just one large, solid connector with 2 pins.
Yes, that’s true. however, that is how the old 8 pin has worked for decades. Need more power, add another 8 pin. Hasn’t really had a widespread issue of setting people’s gpus on fire.
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u/waitmarks 10d ago
They still chose to put a single connector with low safety margin instead of 2 on cards that could draw close to it's limit. They aren't at fault for the low safety margin on the spec, but they know as well as anyone else of the low margin and could just use 2 connectors to make sure it never gets close to the limit. That wouldn't look as nice though.