DLSS 5 Testing Gone Wrong: RTX 5090 Owner Reports Melted Power Connector
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DLSS 5 Testing Gone Wrong: RTX 5090 Owner Reports Melted Power Connector
Nvidia‘s DLSS 5 has only been (officially) available for a few days, but the new AI rendering technology is already raising questions about its power demands. One RTX 5090 owner testing the feature in NBA 2K27 says their card was drawing more than 600W before its power connector melted and the GPU stopped working. The […] This post belongs to FandomWire and first appeared on FandomWire
The NVIDIA DLSS 5 technology continues to make talk about it, but not necessarily for the right reasons. After several analyses showing that the Neural Rendering could greatly increase the electricity consumption of Blackwell graphics cards, a first case of molten connector would have been reported during tests carried out with this new technology on a GeForce [...] The DLSS 5 article: a first RTX 5090 connector would have melted after a consump…
News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. The new DLSS 5 starts to get under the magnifying glass because of an unexpected problem in the GeForce RTX 5090. One user reported that his MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC stopped working after testing the technology in NBA 2K27, the only game officially optimized for this feature. This ended with the connector [...] The entry One user activated DLSS 5 and h…
Probably Bound to Happen: Increased Power Draw for DLSS 5 Reportedly Claims Its First Victim After a User Finds an RTX 5090 with a Melted Power Adapter
NBA 2K27 launched last week, officially bringing NVIDIA’s neural rendering technology to the masses in the form of DLSS 5, but the new feature could cost more than performance hits. DLSS 5 has already been criticized for how it can drastically change images. In some instances, these alterations can be considered improvements, while in others, […]
According to VideoCardz, one reader described the damage to the 16-point power interface of the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC video card during the DLSS 5 test.
Read the original note in the following link: User burns the 12V-2×6 connector of his GeForce RTX 5090 by activating DLSS 5 Activating DLSS 5 technology can overheat your computer's RTX 5090 connector, dramatically raising its power consumption. Read the original note in the following link: User burns the 12V-2×6 connector of his GeForce RTX 5090 by activating DLSS 5 Pisapapers
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