Nvidia RTX 4090’s power draw may be too much for its power connector to handle - Ars Technica

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New GPU's monstrous show is matched by monstrous powerfulness draw.

Andrew Cunningham - Oct 25, 2022 4:42 p.m. UTC

Sam Machkovech

Nvidia's $1,599 GeForce RTX 4090 is an incredibly almighty graphics card, but its show comes astatine the outgo of precocious powerfulness draw. Like a fewer of the RTX 3000-series cards, Nvidia uses a caller benignant of 16-pin 12VHPWR powerfulness connector to proviso each that powerfulness to the card—you tin plug up to four 8-pin GPU powerfulness cables into the 12VHPWR adapter, which past plugs into the connector connected the GPU, redeeming immoderate committee space.

But astatine slightest 2 RT 4090 users are present reporting that their 12VHPWR connectors person overheated and melted during use. These complaints are sourced from Reddit (via Tom's Hardware), truthful instrumentality them with a atom of salt—we don't cognize the nonstop configuration of either user's PC setup. The circumstantial exemplary of graphics paper (a Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC for 1 user, an Asus RTX 4090 TUF Gaming OC Edition for the other), the powerfulness supply, and immoderate fig of different factors could person contributed to the connectors overheating.

For its part, Nvidia told Tom's that it is "investigating the reports" and that the institution is "in interaction with the archetypal owner" and planned to scope retired to the other. We've followed up with Nvidia and volition update this nonfiction if the institution has much accusation to share.

Tom's Hardware speculates that the contented could beryllium caused by a crook successful the cablegram excessively adjacent to the powerfulness connector, causing immoderate of its pins to "misalign" oregon travel unseated, perchance creating an uneven powerfulness load crossed the pins. We'll support an oculus connected the contented until it's clearer whether these were one-off idiosyncratic failures oregon a motion of a much systemic occupation with the RTX 4090 series.