Nvidia's made me happy with its DLSS 4 generosity and affordable RTX 5070 price, and that's rolled on with the new and improved RTX 5080 power adapter.

Nvidia says that its flagship RTX 5090 GPUs will not experience the melting 16-pin connectors that plagued RTX 4090 graphics cards. Company representatives made this announcement during Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 in South Korea,

If you recall a couple of years and several centuries ago when the RTX 4090 launched, a bunch of them melted. Okay, that’s hyperbolic, but a small but notable number of 40-series cards had issues with the new 12VHPWR connector setup that caused cards to short out and fail.