For some people, cables are annoying when it comes to PC building – and that’s why rear-connector designs like BTF has started taking off in an effort to eliminate (or at least hide) cables as much as possible. Not done with the HPCE-based design, ASUS has developed another concept that aims to deliver power to GPUs while simultaneously keeping cables out of the way.
Another Cable-less GPU Concept From ASUS


This concept in particular has a distinct feature when comparing to ASUS’s previous GC-HPWR solution: it doesn’t require any adapters. The company has modified the PCIe 16x slot itself to supply extra power through the pins on the left. To make this work, ASUS engineers merged several 12V pins on its finger to allow for greater current to flow through, and such design doesn’t impact compatibility with any PCIe card as well.
Of course, all those power still needs to come somewhere, and in this case, the custom TUF B850 motherboard has a PCIe 8-pin connector at the bottom to assist the ATX 24-pin in power delivery. While you still need compatible GPUs and motherboards for this to work, the GPU (in this case the custom TUF RTX 5060 Ti) can still work standalone with the normal 12V-2×6 power cable on motherboards not specifically designed to deliver extra PCIe slot power.

As seen in the demonstration, the custom TUF RTX 5060 Ti is pulling up to 250W of power, which is significantly higher than the 75W a stock PCIe slot can provide, as well as higher than the stock RTX 5060 Ti’s 180-watt TGP. The card was claimed to sustain a 30-minute Furmark stress test with no thermal or stability issues, and as the channel host Tony Yu says, more testing will be done to ensure it is ready to enter the consumer market.
Pokdepinion: Ingenious, I’ll say.