It’s not intended to match intel, it’s their independancy right there.

Their connector expect 100% perfect contact which doesn’t happen in real life. There’s no engineering margins. Also they push too much current in too little copper without any of the necessary 30% margins. So that’s the difference between theory and practice, it just keeps melting and breaking cards. 12VHPWR just doesn’t work in real life. Look how the custom cards all go back to 2x8pins.

i long wondered why something like that wasn’t happening in occident. Pull old gpus and put like 40gb of cheap ram on it with multiple channels to make cheap cards. Then i remember occident’s all about the money and “intellectual property” claims.