AMD took another jab at Nvidia’s issues with melting 12-pin connectors following a dig Team Red made during its RX 7900 XTX announcement. It’s not uncommon for AMD and Nvidia to spar during new product announcements, but this is happening under different circumstances. Nvidia is facing down a potential class-action lawsuit over the melting power connector.
Nvidia has drawn a lot of attention over the past several weeks as users continue to report melting power connectors on the RTX 4090. Since the first report in late October, 26 users have reported an issue through a megathread on the Nvidia subreddit. It may have to produce more concrete answers soon, though. Lucas Genova, who purchased an RTX 4090 on release day, filed a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia on November 11. Nvidia was notified of the lawsuit on November 15, and it alleges that Nvidia “marketed and sold the RTX 4090 with a defective and dangerous power cable plug and socket, which has rendered consumers’ cards inoperable and poses a serious electrical and fire hazard for each and every purchaser.
In our RTX 4090 review and RTX 4080 review, we didn’t experience a melting power connector after running the cards around the clock for over a week each. In speaking with board partners, Gamer’s Nexus says the failure is impacting somewhere between 0.05% and 0.1% of cards.
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