It's no secret that NVIDIA GPUs have had a habit of burning up 12vHPWR and 12V-2x6 connectors, but increasingly, reports are emerging of the same thing happening to AMD's Radeon GPUs running the same connectors. The latest report of such burned connectors come from a user on r/Radeon on Reddit, where user u/divinethreshold posted an image of their burned Sapphire Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU with a burned 12V-2x6 connector on the GPU cable side. According to the account, the GPU had been running in the same system for upwards of a year without issue before it started crashing mysteriously, prompting the redditor to disassemble the system and inspect for hardware issues.

[Editor's note: You can read our in-depth review of the Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Nitro+ graphics card here]

In the comments, the affected user explains that the burned cable was part of an included adaptor that connects the 12V-2x6 connector on the GPU to three 8-pin connectors on the PSU side. As commenters in the thread have also pointed out, these sorts of failures seem to be more common when similar adaptors are used, which makes sense, since most official sources attribute failures to overheating caused by improper contact across one or more pins. Increasing the number of potential failures also increases the likelihood of said failure.
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