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Gamers complain Nvidia's powerful new video card is melting connectors

Rob Beschizza
Feb 12, 2025
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An artist's impression of a melting GPU

Making a graphics processing unit with 1.8 terabits of memory bandwidth, 24,576 CUDA cores, 768 tensor cores and 192 ray-tracing cores, capable of produding 1636.76 gigatexels per second? Easy! Pushing 500 watts down 18 gauge braided wire without burning the house down? Hard.

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