TECH NEWS – Nvidia’s Blackwell flagship not only consumes a great deal of power, but has also been associated with power connectors that melt more than once.

The editor-in-chief of Club386 criticized Nvidia over the faulty 16-pin connector used by its graphics cards. It is not unusual for 16-pin connectors on the GeForce RTX 5000 series to burn or melt, and reports of such cases emerge several times a week. Club386 became the latest victim of a melted 16-pin RTX 5090 connector. Their own Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition card turned into a hot, smoldering wreck.

In many cases, the connectors on the cable, GPU, and power supply all melt, and Club386 experienced a similar situation. Based on the images, both the power-supply and GPU sides appear to have suffered severe damage, with burned connectors visible on the cable and the power supply as well.

The outlet thanked Nvidia for sending a replacement card, and there have already been cases in which people successfully completed the RMA process for their burned RTX 5090 cards. According to Club386, however, the problem should not happen in the first place. It used a single 12V-2×6 cable to connect the RTX 5090 GPU to a 1000W Be Quiet Dark Power 13 power supply.

The site argues that although a single connector appears practical and seems like a better solution than using four 8-pin connectors, there has to be a better way. It also describes the connector as a flawed design.

Club386 was not the only outlet to see components suffer severe damage. Another YouTuber, Daniel Owen, also saw a connector melt on his RTX 5090 card. Unlike Club386, however, Owen used a four-times-8-pin-to-12V-2×6 adapter to power his Founders Edition card. Although adapters appear to cause the most damage, users using a single cable have also reported similar melting incidents since the RTX 5090 launched.

Blaming the adapter therefore does not change the fact that the 16-pin connector needs to go when the RTX 6000 series arrives.

Source: WCCFTech