Not a big fan of the 16-pin port adopted by NVIDIA, AMD has left the choice to its partners.
For many months now, the reliability of the new power port for graphics cards - the famous 16-pin port - has been the subject of much debate. Many users have already complained that the connector on their power cable, the port on their graphics card, or even both at the same time, is not melting. In some cases, the problem has been linked to incorrect insertion of the connector, in others to excessive bending of the cable plug, but some situations remain a mystery. On the other hand, most of the melts reported by users concern NVIDIA boards.
Cable and connector are melted: the Radeon RX 9070 XT may also be affected by the problem. VideoCardz
Are AMD and Intel cards more reliable? No, the answer lies elsewhere... but not far away. For one thing, it's usually the most powerful NVIDIA graphics cards that are affected. These cards logically consume more power than their competitors, and have no equivalent from AMD or Intel. What's more, we shouldn't forget that in the vast majority of cases, AMD and Intel cards make do with older, 8-pin ports. These ports allow less current to flow through the power cables, and are therefore less prone to this kind of problem.
As if to confirm the pertinence of these two arguments, the rare "non-NVIDIA" boards to have been affected by a melting problem are AMD's most powerful Radeon RX 9070 XTs... equipped with 16-pin connectors! The latest example dates back only a few days: an ASRock Radeon RX 9070 XT Taichi, whose connector and cable have been damaged. It's not the first time this has happened, and proves that you need to be careful, even with cards not designed by NVIDIA. Until a clear solution has been found, we strongly advise you to be careful when inserting the cable (right down to the little "click") and when fitting it into your PC: avoid excessive bending.
