As illustrated by BuildZoid below, on cards using 8-pin and 6-pin power connections, a typical GPU has a shunt resistor for each plug. On the 30-series, Nvidia treated its 12V connector as three ...

Although NVidia’s current disastrous RTX 50-series is getting all the attention right now, this wasn’t the first misstep by ...

This design is a step up from the previous setup in the RTX 30 series, where a single shunt resistor was shared among ... which is important for powering the GPU efficiently.