Whereas we nonetheless watch for affirmation on Nvidia’s alleged RTX 4080 SUPER, Staff Inexperienced’s strongest graphics card continues to have overheating issues. In reality, one repairman has skilled such an inflow of damaged GPUs they’ve needed to take their well being into consideration.

As noticed by Tom’s {Hardware}, restore store Northridge Repair has stated it’s been receiving between 20 and 25 Nvidia RTX 4090s every week. All of which want fixing as a consequence of melted energy connectors.

In a current YouTube evaluation video, a repairman for the corporate has stated that he’s needed to buy a face masks so he doesn’t must maintain “smelling the burn on these connectors,” referring to those on the damaged graphics playing cards.

The odor is “insufferable”

Well being dangers apart, this inflow of GPUs being despatched to Northridge Repair is a part of an ongoing downside with Nvidia’s piece of fanatic {hardware}. The RTX 4090s have been identified to have overheating points since day one, however issues have been largely dismissed as being right down to “person error.”

The footage additionally exhibits the quantity of 4090 playing cards which were despatched to the restore store. Greater than 10 have been mounted lately, with the repairman concluding that the “melted connector shouldn’t be a person downside.”

The truth that the RTX 4090 has a TDP of 450W might be a part of what’s inflicting them to overheat. Evaluate that to the RTX 4080 with a TDP of 320W (in accordance with TechPowerup), and it’s simple to level a finger on the offender.

The Ada Lovelace vary has been out for over a 12 months now. On the time of writing, Nvidia doesn’t seem to have made vital steps in the direction of addressing the problems with the 4090. It’s potential extra circumstances will come to mild.