As illustrated by BuildZoid below, on cards using 8-pin and 6-pin power connections, a typical GPU has a shunt resistor ... wires pulling 100W each to one wire pulling 600W, resulting in a major ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer ...