TL;DR: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is extremely power-hungry, featuring prototypes with 4 x 16-pin power connectors and up to 2400W power delivery. These prototypes, including the AD102 ...
Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 ...
Nvidia has been quick to wave away concerns that its RTX 5090 flagship graphics card, which consumes close to 600W of power, won’t melt power connectors like its predecessor had a habit of doing.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 40-series graphics cards were the first mainstream products to feature the 16-pin power connector. However, Nvidia might not stick to this format for the upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 ...
AMD and Intel are reportedly testing 16-pin power connectors on their next-gen gaming GPUs, meaning these new graphics cards could finally ditch the good old-fashioned 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power ...
The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has developed a revised specification for the 16-pin 12VHPWR graphics card power connector. According to a report from Igor's Lab ...
Some owners of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards are reporting cases of melting power connectors and damaged power supplies (PSU). The problem resembles what was seen when the RTX ...