Nvidia is confident there will be no melting connectors thanks to the 12V-2x6 standard featured on its RTX 50-series GPUs. The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

If you recall a couple of years and several centuries ago when the RTX 4090 launched, a bunch of them melted. Okay, that’s hyperbolic, but a small but notable number of 40-series cards had issues with the new 12VHPWR connector setup that caused cards to short out and fail.

Nvidia says that its flagship RTX 5090 GPUs will not experience the melting 16-pin connectors that plagued RTX 4090 graphics cards. Company representatives made this announcement during Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 in South Korea,

The past few years have been undeniably profitable for Nvidia ( NVDA 4.13%) investors. The stock price has surged more than sevenfold over the past two years, and today, it topped the charts as the world's most valuable company in terms of market cap. The stock was up as much as 4.7% Wednesday morning. At 12:32 p.m. ET, the stock was still up 4.1%.

Nvidia (NVDA) reclaimed its title as the world’s most valuable public company on Tuesday as Apple’s (AAPL) shares slid.

Shares of Nvidia, Microsoft, Oracle, and other AI-related companies surged Wednesday after the Trump administration’s announcement of a $500 billion joint venture spurred optimism about a rising tide of AI investments.

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