This new Asus graphics card connector can supply 1,000W of power with no cable

Asus has just unveiled a new graphics card connector that does away with the power cables and sockets of conventional cards, and instead relies on a motherboard slot to deliver power, able to deliver up to 1,000W. The new Asus graphics card connector is an extension of the company's back-to-the-future (BTF) connection system it unveiled a couple of years ago, but this time the company has thought about how to make the system more powerful and more compatible.

Asus unveiled BTF at the tail end of 2023, with the system designed to do away with cables in the front of a PC, and instead have the best graphics cards of the world draw their power from a connection on the motherboard. The problem with the first iteration of the design, though, was that BTF graphics cards couldn't fit in non-BTF motherboards, making it a very restricted system.