The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 is a card difficult to come by today, given the lack of stocks and sky-high prices – one unfortunate user of the ROG Astral variant now has to deal with a card that blown itself up, rendering it nonfunctional. Not a great time to have a dead card, especially a $2,800 one.
One Dead RTX 5090
Reddit user Impossible-Weight485 claimed that the PC shut down while they were browsing the web; one restart later and the GPU caught fire, with smoke coming out of the card. “When I took out the GPU, I saw burn marks on both the GPU and the motherboard,” the user wrote in the post. Images posted by the user shows the burn marks located next to the PCIe slot on the ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard, as well as near the outermost power stage on the card.
To be clear, this is not the latest victim in the long-standing melting power connectors issue, as the images taken show the 12V-2×6 connector in pristine condition, with no damage in sight. While the exact cause of failure is unclear at the moment, Gamers Nexus has offered to purchase the card from the user for further analysis; Buildzoid of Actually Hardcore Overclocking believes that this failure may be attributed to a blown power stage.
This incident is among the many that affected RTX 50 GPUs thus far, including stock shortage, black screens, melting connectors, and missing ROP units. No signs indicate that this particular incident may be a widespread issue, though with how limited the stock is, it’s really not ideal to have more GPUs failing right now.
Source: Videocardz
Pokdepinion: Hopefully this is just a one-off.
