Nvidia's decision to use the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector for its highest-powered GPUs has been popular for all the wrong reasons this week. Reports of melting cables in RTX 5090 GPUs are ...

If you thought the RTX 5090 has monstrous power requirements, you'll be floored by these leaked Nvidia GPU prototypes.

Nvidia has really let us down on this one. New 5080 and 500 GPUs come with this connector, and they’re once again fire-prone.

Melting 12VHPWR cables on Nvidia GeForce graphics cards have been an ongoing issue since the company’s flagship RTX 4090 card launched, but one Chinese company thinks it finally has the solution.

Here we go again." Virtually anyone reading this site will well remember the unfortunate failures of 12VHPWR connectors on GeForce RTX 4090 cards. NVIDIA and many others investigated the melting ...

A Chinese manufacturer has come up with a 12VHPWR adapter featuring active cooling and real-time power monitoring, aiming to mitigate concerns of melting GPU power connectors. The unique angled ...

TL;DR: A Reddit user reported a melted 12VHPWR power cable on a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, despite ensuring proper connection. An investigation by YouTuber der8auer revealed uneven power ...

After the melting RTX 4090 debacle, surely Nvidia is all over ... On inspection, der8auer found all three of the card, the 12VHPWR cable, and the PSU were damaged. The GPU's power socket had ...

had previously published a report warning of ‘thermal variance’ risks regarding the 12VHPWR adapter used for the RTX 4090. This time around, though, I’m really not so sure Nvidia is at fault.