The power connector for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, a reference version of NVIDIA's new flagship GPU for gamers, ...

Less than two weeks after its release, the first report of a melting Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 has surfaced online. While a third-party power cable was used, it’s unclear right now what caused the ...

I started with the same $1,999 RTX 5090 FE and 1000-watt power supply from my desktop test, dropping them both onto a $99 ...

Some owners of Nvidia's new RTX 5090 Founders Edition graphics cards are reporting cases of melting power connectors and damaged power supplies (PSU). The problem resembles what was seen when the ...

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Reports of melting 12VHPWR connectors are starting to come in, with the first victim losing both his PSU and RTX 5090 FE.

I specifically bought an SFX power supply with a right-angled 16-pin connector. That cable no longer works; the recessed, angled port on the RTX 5090 Founder’s Edition blocks the cable from ...

holds a new power adapter cable for the RTX 5090 that includes an updated version ... three DisplayPort 2.1b ports and a single HDMI 2.1b port. Interestingly, Nvidia has flipped the ports upside ...

Now, a redesigned 12V2x6 port fixes the most egregious ... secure builds inside power-hungry desktops. Pairing the RTX 5090 with a suitable high-end processor like the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, as ...

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 requires 575W of power, which is much more than the ... making for a 42% performance uplift. Similarly in Port Royal, the ray tracing test, the RTX 5090 scores 36,946 ...

The included power adapter requires four PCIe 8-pin feeds, like the RTX 4090 did ... in the GeForce RTX 5090 include a trio of DisplayPorts (2.1b) and a single HDMI port (2.1b).