£2,000 Nvidia RTX 5090 graphics card reportedly melting power cables

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 graphics paper is 1 of the astir sought-after pieces of technology worldwide, but reports suggest it has melted powerfulness cables.

A Spanish YouTuber and a Reddit user person recovered their RTX 5090 cables were melted done modular gaming use, The Verge reported.

The contented causes harm not lone to the cablegram but besides to the PC's powerfulness proviso — successful 1 Reddit user's case, worthy £240 — and the RTX 5090 graphics card. These graphics cards are successful precocious request and incredibly expensive, priced astatine £1,939 erstwhile purchased straight from Nvidia.

“I noticed the burning odor playing Battlefield 5. The powerfulness gully was 500-520W. Instantly turned disconnected my PC,” wrote Reddit idiosyncratic ivan6953.

This isn’t the archetypal lawsuit of high-powered graphics cards causing melting cablegram issues. In precocious 2022, pursuing the merchandise of the Nvidia RTX 4090, akin reports surfaced, showing burned cablegram sockets and damaged components crossed societal networks similar Reddit.

YouTube transmission Gamers Nexus investigated the improvement successful October 2022. It published a 2024 video which concluded the cablegram spec utilized successful some incidents was “a dumpster fire”.

This modular is known arsenic 12VHPWR, and portion Nvidia has switched to utilizing a somewhat antithetic connector successful the RTX 5090, it volition inactive judge the older cablegram benignant due to the fact that the 2 are fundamentally similar. The reformulated modular has pins of somewhat antithetic lengths.

Improperly inserted powerfulness cables were blamed for the 2022 incidents, prompting the caller cablegram socket plan to forestall specified issues. This besides led to a callback by cablegram shaper CableMod, aft the US Consumer Product Safety Commission identified their powerfulness cablegram adapters arsenic a imaginable 'fire and burn' hazard.

YouTuber der8auer, who backed Gamers Nexus’s archetypal investigation, has examined Reddit idiosyncratic ivan6953’s cablegram and graphics paper to analyse the contented further.

His archetypal probe suggests an contented with an “imbalance” crossed the powerfulness cablegram pins erstwhile utilizing the Nvidia RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. He recorded temperatures of 150°C astatine the constituent wherever the powerfulness cablegram connects to the powerfulness supply.

“Are you telling maine that 150 degrees centigrade astatine the PSU broadside and 90 degrees astatine the GPU broadside wrong 5 minutes, that is normal?” Der8auer said successful his video. He said this was “extremely concerning”.

We person approached Nvidia for a connection connected the Nvidia RTX 5090 issue.

The paper is retired of stock, with eBay listings advertizing it astatine up to doubly its mean cost.