AX Gaming has introduced its X3W Max lineup of GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, which feature a custom L-shaped 16-pin power cable and hidden connector design.

That said, it's worth remembering that one still has to use a 12VHPWR cable, or multiple 8-pin PCIe cables, between the BTF ...

GPU "Cable Gate" is an official thing now. This week a Redditor posted images of a melted 12-pin adapter cable on their Nvidia RTX 4090. The power plug on the PCB was also irreversibly damaged as ...

The 12V-2×6 design lacks a mechanism to monitor pin-specific power draw, leading to poor load balancing and overheating. This flaw now appears to affect the RTX 5070 and 5080, not just the power ...

In a recent Bilibili video, translated by Tom's Hardware, Asus China GM Tony Yu pumped nearly 2 kilowatts into an Nvidia RTX 5090 to showcase the ...

HPWR' power connector on the ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 handles 1000W of power at ease, with increased reliability.

GALAX GeForce RTX 5070 Ti HOF Gaming and RTX 5080 HOF Gaming GPUs will light up with different colors when 16-pin power ...

The Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 BTF Edition graphics card features two types of power connectors designed to handle the ...

User "Shiftyeyes67k" posted a picture of severe burn damage on a 16-pin 4090 12VHPWR power cable connector and the corresponding connection port on a 1000W BeQuet Dark Power 13 ATX 3.0 power supply.

Forget the GPU temp, even the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power cable can hit 150°C. Thermal images of the new graphics card show one wire of the 16-pin 12VHPWR cable drawing over 20A and running at ...

The 12V-2×6 design lacks a mechanism to monitor pin-specific power draw, leading to poor load balancing and overheating. This flaw now appears to affect the RTX 5070 and 5080, not just the power ...