NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 is now recalled in Europe, with the risk of a “fire risk” associated with the 12V-2X6 power connector.
NVIDIA RTX 5090 is once again faced with another problem because a large European retailer issues a reminder for the units sold
Update (3/7/2025): In an update, Kitguru has confirmed that the retailer has now retracted the claim of a recall of potential product of the RTX 50 GPUs.
Well, it seems that the NVIDIA GPU RTX Blackwell GPU fiasco will not end soon, given that now, it is said that the range could encounter generalized “burning” problems, similar to what we have seen with Ada Lovelace. In a report of KitguruCiting a retailer in the Netherlands, it is said that Nvidia redesigned several units of the GeForce RTX 5090 due to “the increase in fire risk”, and even if he has not explicitly mentioned the reason behind, something is definitively prepared. Here is what the retailer said to consumers:
Nvidia recalled a large number of video cards due to various security problems. We currently have five units of this model in stock, but they must all be returned due to an increase in the risk of fire. In this situation, we do not give priority to anyone; All customers are also processed depending on the classification when pre -order or ordering video cards.
– Via Kitguru
Interestingly, we have not seen reports on the GeForce RTX 5090 of Nvidia being exhausted, apart from a few incidents with Models such as Astral Rog of Asus. The reason why the GPUs of the NVIDIA RTX 50 series would be subject to such burning incidents is that they are delivered with a new 12V-2X6 supply connector, which would be an impeccable version, sorting all the problems associated with the 12VHPWR 12VHPWR 12VHPWR. But now it seems that there is a compromise, probably in the connector.
Experts like Der8auer have expressed his concern about the NVIDIA 12V-2X6 connector not uniformly distributing food on all wires, which is why The connector temperatures have reached more than 150 ° C on the PSU side, which is indeed alarming. However, since we have not seen the problem reported by consumers frequently, it is assumed that the RTX 50 series is no problem for the moment, but we are expecting an official Team Green update on this subject.
The launch of Nvidia RTX Blackwell is by far one of the most annoying for consumers, given the problems they are surrounded by, and it is surely disappointing, given the expectations that people have with a brand like Nvidia.