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RTX 5090 cable melting claim debunked — Investigation points at prior RTX 4090 FE cabling usage
A Hong Kong media outlet was scared by two melted 16-pin cables; initially mistakenly attributed to RTX 5090 testing.
Nvidia says RTX 5090 isn’t expected to suffer from power cable melting issues that blighted the RTX 4090, despite the GPU’s 575W power usage
Nvidia has assured us that the RTX 5090 GPU is “not expected” to have any issues with melting power connectors, as seen with ...
New GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 graphics cards are not melting cables, reports confirm issue was with RTX 4090
The higher power limits in the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 were always going to raise concerns that the cards might experience the same melting power ...
Nvidia says melting power connectors are a thing of the past
Nvidia is confident there will be no melting connectors thanks to the 12V-2x6 standard featured on its RTX 50-series GPUs.