What just happened? Never one to miss an opportunity to have a dig at Nvidia, AMD has blasted its rival over the 16-pin (12VHPWR) power connector issues that were found (mostly) in the RTX 4090.

Indeed, year after year, design improvements have been applied on the 7-16 connector series which has become the connector that is most frequently used when a stringent intermodulation requirement is ...

Daniel's been gaming since he was old enough to reach the keyboard and has a Bachelor's Degree in Writing from the University of Tampa. Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia now faces legal action over ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector for RTX 40 and 50 Series GPUs has faced recurring issues of melting cables and overheating. AMD's Radeon RX 9000 Series also reports similar failures, ...