The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-review” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-review”>GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition is Nvidia’s own-brand flagship GPU for consumers, but one repair technician says it comes with a hidden flaw that makes it “one of the worst designs in the history of… GPUs,” he’s seen. In a teardown uploaded to the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-3090-sent-in-to-repairer-was-missing-the-gpu-and-all-its-memory-chips” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-3090-sent-in-to-repairer-was-missing-the-gpu-and-all-its-memory-chips”>Northridge Fix YouTube channel, the card was declared unrepairable after damage to an internal connector — one that, the technician claims, cannot be replaced or sourced.
The card in question was sent in after it stopped outputting video…
