Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Nvidia’s RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
The 12VHPWR power cable is still causing issues.
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This is why I don't feel too strongly about people that buy first-batch hardware. They're the QC for the rest of us!
Not even first batch as far as this connector goes. This has been an issue ever since this connector was released on the 40 series cards in 2022.
The sensible thing would've been to just rollback to the standard 8-pin PCIe power connector that has been reliable for many years. I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.
Instead they made small iterations to this 12VHPWR connector (changing sense pin lengths and other small adjustments) and they're letting their paying customers test the new iteration with the 50 series.
Admit that 12VHPWR is bullshit and revert to 8-pin. Come up with a working solution or just stick with 8-pin long-term.
I guess requiring 4 of these for 600 watts would highlight how ridiculous the power draw of the 5090 is.
I like the way you think.
Even two of the 12VHP connectors would be better.
Ngl I kinda think anyone who buys a current gen, top of the line GPU is a bit of a chump and has been for over a decade.
They just don't make that big of a difference.
I mean… I jumped on a 3080FE several years ago near release time because
- Rona time
- it was an absurd amount of generational uplift - as in, I’m not sure we’ll ever see that sort of gen-over-gen performance gain again
They just don’t make that big of a difference.
The 40 series was basically the exact opposite of this. The lower down the stack the worse the per generation gains got. With the lower end cards sometimes seeing regressions because of the lack of memory bandwidth/capacity.
My 4060ti scores lower than my 3060 on large language model benchmarks. I have a Zen 3 APU, so it's limited to PCIe 3.0. Lower performance in some games too.
I imagine if I had a regular Zen 3 and tested each card by itself in slot 0, the 4060ti would be faster, but it is what it is.