Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 ...
and RTX 3080 (GA104) featured four or three 8-pin power connectors. So it's not just the latest GPUs, as older-generation products also featured an 'excessive' number of power connectors.
What just happened? With several reports of RTX 5090 power connectors melting, it's starting to look as if the dreaded issue that was found by many RTX 4090 owners has made it to the Blackwell ...