A few months ago, we covered the first reported case of a 16-pin power connector meltdown for AMD’s RX 9070 XT. Usually, it’s Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and 5090s that face the fire, but Sapphire has adopted the same 16-pin power connector on one of its RDNA 4 GPUs. Today, another report has surfaced on Reddit where a user found their Nitro+ RX 9070 XT with a considerably scorched connector after experiencing a period of system instability.
Another one bites the dust – Sapphire 9070XT Nitro+ 12V HPWR FAIL from