Some RX 9070 series also use high power connector and so far there haven’t been any issues. Though they haven’t been around for as long as RTX 5000 series…
afaik the issue is the 50 series connects all those pins into a single point on the board. obviously this is fine in normal operation, because power is drawn through all pins evenly. if, however the plug isnt making good connection, that significantly increases resistance across 1 or more pins. in this situation, the card has no way of knowing, and continues to draw all the power it needs, but unevenly thus overloading the cables rating
other designs connect the pins independently and measure the current across individual pins so they know if there’s a fault
Thats so unlikely to happen the cable and connector would have to be really fucked up.
As NVidia proved, the connector and implementation themselves are fucked up enough
Some RX 9070 series also use high power connector and so far there haven’t been any issues. Though they haven’t been around for as long as RTX 5000 series…
Is there proper load-balancing monitors on the GPU side? Considering most use 2/3*8-Pin, it probably. So there is max. 150W load on one cable.
afaik the issue is the 50 series connects all those pins into a single point on the board. obviously this is fine in normal operation, because power is drawn through all pins evenly. if, however the plug isnt making good connection, that significantly increases resistance across 1 or more pins. in this situation, the card has no way of knowing, and continues to draw all the power it needs, but unevenly thus overloading the cables rating
other designs connect the pins independently and measure the current across individual pins so they know if there’s a fault