NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 caught fire while playing Red Dead Redemption 2

An unpleasant incident happened to one of the lucky owners of GeForce RTX 4090. The new NVIDIA video card caught fire right during the game.

Here's What We Know

The owner of the graphics card told about the incident in social networks. According to him, the graphics card caught fire while playing Red Dead Redemption 2. As confirmation, he posted a photo showing the melted 16-pin power connector.

The user adds that the cable, which acts as an adapter from four 8-pin connectors to one 16-pin connector, caught fire during the game. The owner of the video card believes that it was a faulty cable that caused the fire.

Flashback

GeForce RTX 4090 is a flagship graphics card on the Lovelace architecture. It went on sale about two weeks ago for a recommended retail price of $1599. The card has 24GB of GDDR6X video memory at 21GHz and a maximum bandwidth of 1TB/s. The 2.52 GHz AD102-300 GPU has 16,384 CUDA cores and is made with 4nm technology. The graphics card power consumption is 450W.

Source: WCCFTech