An proprietor of a Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card has simply reported a burned up energy cable, exhibiting that this drawback is not simply restricted to high-powered Nvidia graphics playing cards such because the GeForce RTX 5090. There’s one characteristic this AMD card has in frequent with equally fried Nvidia playing cards, although, and that is its energy connector – it makes use of a 16-pin 12VHPWR socket, moderately than the 6/8-pin sockets normally utilized by AMD graphics playing cards.
The AMD 9070 XT at present tops our information to purchasing the very best graphics card, because of its wonderful efficiency and 16GB allocation of VRAM, and most of the playing cards primarily based on this AMD GPU use customary 8-pin energy sockets. There are some notable exceptions, although. One is that this Sapphire card, and one other is the ASRock Taichi card that we examined for our AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT overview, which has additionally had a melted energy socket incident.
The burned energy cable that was plugged into this Sapphire card was proven in a put up on r/radeon on Reddit, the place 4 of the pins are clearly blackened with melted, browned plastic surrounding them. The Redditor who owned the cardboard, e92justin, claims that he was utilizing the 3x 8-pin adapter that was included with the graphics card to energy it, and that it was plugged right into a Corsair RM1000X PSU – he says he’d solely been utilizing it for one month.
“By no means thought it will be me,” e92justin says, since ‘these playing cards do not pull as a lot energy because the 5090s’… Every part was absolutely seated.” Whereas it is true that the 9070 XT would not pull as a lot energy because the 5090, we discovered our check rig pulled a surprisingly excessive quantity of energy from the mains with the ASRock Taichi 9070 XT card put in in it at its overclocked settings.
With this configuration, the entire system energy draw was really 1W greater with the overclocked 9070 XT card put in than with the RTX 4090 fitted, though it was nonetheless 157W away from the RTX 5090’s peak determine.
Even so, regardless of how a lot energy your graphics card attracts, it should not be melting your energy cable, and this report demonstrates that there is a small danger of your graphics card’s energy socket melting if it makes use of a 12VHPWR socket, whether or not the GPU was made by AMD or Nvidia.
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