If the other card makers have similar plans to Zotac’s, expect some cards to take up a good 3.5 slots (instead of two) and have 600W power requirements to the Founders Edition’s 575W. That’s Zotac’s top card,

The cards with Nvidia's largest Blackwell GPU do not need two slots, but at least three for AiB games. Unless they are water-cooled.

If you recall a couple of years and several centuries ago when the RTX 4090 launched, a bunch of them melted. Okay, that’s hyperbolic, but a small but notable number of 40-series cards had issues with the new 12VHPWR connector setup that caused cards to short out and fail.

Nvidia says that its flagship RTX 5090 GPUs will not experience the melting 16-pin connectors that plagued RTX 4090 graphics cards. Company representatives made this announcement during Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 in South Korea,