GPU "Cable Gate" is an official thing now. This week a Redditor posted images of a melted 12-pin adapter cable on their Nvidia RTX 4090. The power plug on the PCB was also irreversibly damaged as ...

Standard 8-pin and 6-pin power connections are built to handle far more than they are rated for. An 8-pin connection is rated to carry 12.5A of current across all pins, with each pin at minimum ...

While it got warm, it didn't melt or crash the system despite pulling over three times what an RTX 5090 would typically ...

Nvidia is formally investigating a number of reports from Reddit users who have claimed their supplied 12VHPWR power adaptor for their 4090 has melted!

The PCI-SIG standards body is now suggesting that Nvidia and GPU partners are at fault for not fully testing its 12VHPWR power connector.

Reports of 12-pin connector meltdown cases were common with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. However, a similar case has now appeared with the RTX 5070. More like this Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti ...

The 16-pin cable has been causing continuous problems. Despite improvements and changes made, some units have continued to ...

NVIDIA has recently released their lineup of 40-series graphics cards, with a novel generation of power connectors called 12VHPWR. See, the previous-generation 8-pin connectors were no longer enoug… ...

In a recent Bilibili video, translated by Tom's Hardware, Asus China GM Tony Yu pumped nearly 2 kilowatts into an Nvidia RTX 5090 to showcase the ...

Since October 24, the Nvidia subreddit has been updating its '16 Pins Adapter' megathread with new reports of damaged RTX 4090 graphics cards and power cables. As the number of cases continues to ...

PCM Hong Kong-based tech outlet PCM raised alarms after testing Nvidia’s RTX 5090D and RTX 5080, where it encountered two melted 16-pin power cables and a failed 1,200W power supply unit (PSU).

AMD and Intel have continued to use the 8-pin power connector, and even some of Nvidia's partners have stuck with 8-pin connectors for lower-end, lower-power cards like the RTX 4060 and 4070 series.