Open App →
Back to News Feed
Tom's Hardware September 7, 2026 By Hassam Nasir neutral

Enthusiast says DLSS 5 pushed RTX 5090 past 600W and melted the 16-pin connector — Nvidia's neural rendering tech adds up to 50% more power draw in testing

AI / LLMNVIDIA / GPUData Center
Another RTX 5090 has gone down but this time it has something else to blame other than its own 16-pin connector. The connector is still what melted but potentially because of DLSS 5 pulling way too much power at the back end.
Read original article ↗

Related Articles

Illegal hunting of protected species trial opens in Orléans against French billionaire Olivier Bouygues

If found guilty, the French billionaire, worth close to €3.2 billion, and the other defendants face up to seven years in

Euronews · September 7, 2026

RPCS3 emulator can now run PS3 games on PC directly from a disc drive in landmark development — unlocks 20 years of physical titles on Windows, Linux, and macOS

The developers of the Sony PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 have told their social media followers that it is now possible t

Tom's Hardware · September 7, 2026

'This is not a film': Bullet-riddled Ukrainian ambulance displayed by Russian embassy in Lisbon

Totally wrecked, this vehicle, parked for a day outside the Russian embassy in Lisbon, highlights the reality of the war

Euronews · September 7, 2026

Flea market shopper uncovers $1,500 worth of Samsung SSDs inside a $30 expansion card — Three 2TB 980 Pro drives were hidden beneath an Asus Hyper M.2 heatsink

An extremely fortunate bargain hunter in Kuwait found three Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSDs slotted inside a $30 PCIe expansion

Tom's Hardware · September 7, 2026