NVIDIA has given consumers its assurance that the melting 12VHPWR connector issue that plagued its GeForce RTX 4090 GPU will not be an issue with the RTX 50 Series. The brand says that that problem ended with the last generation and will not rear its ugly head with Blackwell cards.
In a Q&A session held during an Editor’s Day in South Korea earlier this month, one attendee had raised the melting connector issue and whether NVIDIA had dealt with it. Again, the GPU maker gave its assurance that it had a year to revise the power connector and as you can see in our review of the RTX 5090 FE, the card features an updated and safer design.
Their question is an unfair one. On a full load, the RTX 5090 pulls up to 575W of power, 125W more than the RTX 4090, and that’s through a single 12VHPWR cable. NVIDIA had determined that the main issue with the melting connector was due to the head of the connector not being fully plugged into the card’s port.
It’s still early days though and while we’re not trying to jinx the situation, fingers crossed that NVIDIA’s engineers really have resolved the issue and we won’t be hearing anymore horror stories with the RTX 50 Series.
(Source: Quasar Zone, Videocardz)
