Geforce RTX 5090: Graphics card catches fire in Battlefield 6

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Source: gamer.com

As you know, there have been reports of melting power plugs on Nvidia performance-hungry top graphics card RTX 5090 for some time, as well as in the previous generation. However, Wccftech is now reporting an incident from the website's forum Gamer.com.tw , which is supposed to be one of the worst cases you've ever seen with a graphics card - and not even in connection with the power connection.

Geforce RTX 5090: Video card catches fire at Battlefield 6

Because the affected Zotac Geforce RTX 5090 Amp Extreme Infinity did not have a melting power plug, but literally caught fire elsewhere. According to the report, the video card was on fire at the affected area for about 10 seconds. According to the user "york4517", the fire occurred at the junction where the printed circuit board of the video card is closest to the motherboard.

According to Wccftech, it seems that the fire broke out near the MSVDD area of the video card that supplies power to the memory subsystem. The user stated that he was playing Battlefield 6 at the time of the incident, but the game got stuck, and the next moment he saw fire beating out of the computer.

Burning RTX 5090: Design flaw as the cause?

This is frightening because, according to international safety standards for electrical appliances, such consumer electronics are not allowed to generate open flames under faulty conditions, the report says. Although the components can melt, produce smoke or carbonize under appropriate conditions, they should extinguish quickly on their own in order to minimize further risks.

As for the cause, the X user @unikoshardware suspects that MOSFETs may have exploded, which in turn should not cause flames, but the custom model from Zotac has a peculiarity that could have favored the whole thing. A GPU teardown from @Madness727 shows that the memory VRM (MSVDD) has no active cooling, which makes effective heat dissipation difficult. At the moment, the affected graphics card is supposed to be on its way to the manufacturer for further investigation.