It appears as though AMD has also fallen prey to the melting 12VHPWR connector issues that plagued the NVIDIA RTX 4000 and 5000-series cards. Although very few AMD graphics card makers used the 12VHPWR connector for the Radeon RX 7000 series, adoption rates for the new connection standard increased with the release of the RX 9070 and 9070 XT. What appears to be first recorded instance of a melted 12VHPWR connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has been posted to the r/Radeon subreddit by a user who goes by u/Savings_Opportunity3. […]
Can we go back to 8 pin connectors already? Those have always been very reliable. So what if you need 4 of them to power the GPU, at least they wont start a fire. The 12VHPWR connectors are a bad design.
When I bought my 9070 XT I specifically opted for one of the models without a 12VHPWR connector. It’s a shame any of the AMD partner cards even opted to go with one. It’s basically a crap shoot on if any given card is going to end up catching on fire because of these things and frankly I’m amazed the potential liability alone hasn’t killed the connector.
One should think it’s possible to make connectors that arent a fire hazard. Like the ones carrying much more power that we use all the time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12VHPWR
The connector was replaced by a minor revision called 12V-2x6 (H++), introduced in 2023,[2][3] which changed the GPU- and PSU-side sockets to ensure that the sense pins only make contact if the power pins are seated properly. The cables and their plugs remained unchanged.[4]
So does that card use the revised connector?
Because it is stupid when a video card consumes more that 20-30W.
