Nvidia RTX 5090’s 16-pin power connector hits 150C in reviewer’s thermal camera shots
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Nvidia RTX 5090’s 16-pin power connector hits 150C in reviewer’s thermal camera shots

March 9, 2025
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Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards can get. Veteran hardware reviewer Andreas Schilling, an editor at Germany’s Hardware Luxx, took thermal photos of his water-cooled graphics card. While the GPU barely broke a sweat, the power connectors could

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors

February 12, 2025
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A leaker from the Chipell forums (via HXL) published images of Nvidia-designed PCBs (printed circuit boards) that were used to bring up the new Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs while the company was developing its latest graphics cards. The boards feature debugging interfaces alongside overwhelming power delivery circuitry, with the latter

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