The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is one of the most power-hungry graphics cards in the world. With a base TGP of 575W, you need a very powerful power supply to run it. However, the latest leaked prototype of the RTX 5090 suggests it could have been even more demanding. Four Power Connectors for More Power https://twitter.com/yuuki_ans/status/1926903505274433943 According to the leak that includes a photo of an early prototype of the RTX 5090, this version of the card had no less than four 16-pin power connectors. This setup would allow the card to draw up to a shocking 2,400W of power,
nVidia cares less and less about the consumer market every year. We basically only exist to buy the factory fourths so that the overall yield of any given wafer can be maximized.
2400 for a single component is still rather insane even by server room standards. But 12 or even 18 load balanced? That starts to “make sense” for higher end data centers or even on-prem server rooms at the more tech oriented companies.