An AMD Radeon GPU power connector reportedly just melted, Nvidia no longer alone

AMD has just joined Nvidia in the unenviable club of graphics cards with burned power connectors, with reports that an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card's power socket has melted under load. While Nvidia GPUs have faced scrutiny on this issue up until now, this is the first time a card with a new AMD GPU has demonstrated the same issue.The card in question is an ASRock Taichi OC 9070 XT, which we tested for our AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT review, and which we found to be extremely power hungry when ...