NVIDIA Isn’t Worried About GeForce RTX 50 Series Power Connectors Melting Down: “Issue [with RTX 40 Series] Has Not Occurred in About Two Years”

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The GeForce RTX 5090, a new flagship GPU from NVIDIA that is said to deliver as much as twice the performance of the RTX 4090 courtesy of changes that include the "Blackwell" architecture, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, and a TGP of 575 watts, is unlikely to run into that terrifying problem where the 16-pin power connector could melt down due to overheating—an issue that some users of high-end GeForce RTX 40 Series graphics cards had apparently encountered and reported since their release years ago, in January 2022—according to new machine-translated statements that an NVIDIA director has shared during the company's 2025 RTX AI Day event after being queried about the possibility.

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