RTX 5090 - $2000 - 2 Slot Design - available on Jan. 30 - 12VHPWR still

Incredible design... except for the fact that it's going to be dumping 575-watts or more worth of heat back into the case. That's sure to warm up your components a bit.
 
time for a dual chamber, side by side or over-under. if the fans were reverse you could add a shroud and vent out the pci slots. its gonna be toasty.
 
mullet said:
We shall see how the 600w card trowing all the heat toward the cpu and memory. The top mounted case fans will be key in dumping all that heat out of the case as fast as possible.
I am still wondering how that main board with everything packed in there so tight will cause problems that we are not aware of yet but will over time. that is a lot of heat in a small area.
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I don't believe they did something wrong for a $ 1999 card. The biggest problem will have those who rely on the air cooling(cpu), but it does not have to mean, the good case solves it.
 
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DooKey said:
This is nothing new.
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How is it not new? Liquid metal is used, the pcb is in the middle, completely separated, there are many new features, such a gaming card has never existed before. And no one predicted it at all, everyone expected a physical card even bigger than the rtx 4090.
 
Strange bird said:
How is it not new? Liquid metal is used, the pcb is in the middle, completely separated, there are many new features, such a gaming card has never existed before. And no one predicted it at all, everyone expected a physical card even bigger than the rtx 4090.
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It's nothing new to put up to 600 watts in a case from air cooled GPUs.
 
DooKey said:
It's nothing new to put up to 600 watts in a case from air cooled GPUs.
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You're right, the card is a big consumer, they obviously can't reduce that. But it says that the maximum gpu temperature is 90C, it's not that low.Now the components are more resistant to higher temperatures than before and they have better cooling.
 
Any word on founders edition water blocks yet? I imagine the fact that the board is tiny and has addon boards means block makers can get really creative but also need to step out of their comfort zones a little bit, and need to create something they are not used to, which might take more time.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Any word on founders edition water blocks yet? I imagine the fact that the board is tiny and has addon boards means block makers can get really creative but also need to step out of their comfort zones a little bit, and need to create something they are not used to, which might take more time.
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Do you perceive nano water blocks for coverage of the daughter boards? Or just an unique mono block
 
Strange bird said:
I don't believe they did something wrong for a $ 1999 card. The biggest problem will have those who rely on the air cooling(cpu), but it does not have to mean, the good case solves it.
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That's funny, ohh ok fine let that massive heat go through your upper radiator then. I'm sure the saturation will happen faster now.
My air cooling does just fine. Super easy to clean as well. no worries about pump failure.
 
mullet said:
That's funny, ohh ok fine let that massive heat go through your upper radiator then. I'm sure the saturation will happen faster now.
My air cooling does just fine. Super easy to clean as well. no worries about pump failure.
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Been open loop water-cooling for over 20 years. Never had a pump fail.
 
erek said:
Do you perceive nano water blocks for coverage of the daughter boards? Or just an unique mono block
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I highly doublt the daughter boards require any cooling.

I envision a block that cools the GPU, VRM's and RAM, with some sort of structural frame to hold everything else (PCIe, outputs, etc.) together.
 
mullet said:
And I have never had to RMA a ASUS board for 25 years.
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Same.

If you actually have to use the Asus RMA process, I understand it is frustrating, but I have had Asus propducts for years. After Abit went under, Asus became my primary brand. And in all of that time, I've never had to RMA any Asus product.

That's pretty much Asus entire reputation. Very solid products, terrible RMA/Customer Service.
 
Furious_Styles said:
Well you win this round sir. Almost makes paying the Asus tax worth it.
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My point is everything fails at some point, just because I have good luck with ASUS doesn't mean shit, there is plenty of folks that have had ASUS failures.
 
I used to do a lot of custom watercooling, and rarely do the good pumps go bad, even after a decade of usage. AIO's are a different story. I've had quite a lot during the early years of AIO's where the pumps failed, like within a year. More recent AIO's seem to be doing pretty well, but I've only used 2 of them for at most for 9 months, so it's still too early to know how reliable they are. I don't build for anyone else with AIO's because of those past experiences.
 
El_Capitan said:
I used to do a lot of custom watercooling, and rarely do the good pumps go bad, even after a decade of usage. AIO's are a different story. I've had quite a lot during the early years of AIO's where the pumps failed, like within a year. More recent AIO's seem to be doing pretty well, but I've only used 2 of them for at most for 9 months, so it's still too early to know how reliable they are. I don't build for anyone else with AIO's because of those past experiences.
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FWIW, I have AIO's in 3 computers, the youngest is 3 years old, the oldest is going on a whopping 9 years!!! All are Corsair AIO's, every single one of them still works great. The most I have done is re-paste the oldest one after 5 years.
 
I've never had a Corsair AIO fail (or have any issues) on me, either. That's across 2 machines in my house and 2 I built for friends. My wife's machine is currently equipped with one I bought 8 years ago. Our 2 machines have been re-pasted a couple times, but my less tech-savvy friends' machines haven't been even opened since 2020.
 
we can take it for granted but in general small electronic motors and electric component in general are quite incredible for reliability with 0 maintenance.

How many fans in how many device in your lifetime, how often one stopped working, how many computer monitor stopped working in less than 12 years (I have a 16-17 years old one that start to do strange thing-sound and need to be shutdown on and off again and it something you notice).

During the capacitor issue made stuff it was a big deal, because of how long 1980s-1990s-early 00s computer hardware worked without issue battery aside. More mechanical or interacted with like floppy disk, harddrive that was common. CPU, ramstick failling after 2 years of working OK, that tend to be quite rare.
 
Domingo said:
I've never had a Corsair AIO fail (or have any issues) on me, either. That's across 2 machines in my house and 2 I built for friends. My wife's machine is currently equipped with one I bought 8 years ago. Our 2 machines have been re-pasted a couple times, but my less tech-savvy friends' machines haven't been even opened since 2020.
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I still have a machine with a Corsair aio that's still alive like 8 years later.

It started randomly clicking/ticking some years ago. It starts and stops. You can hear it across the room. It decides to randomly do it like once or twice a week.

Could never figure out what the fuck it is, it's definitely from the pump but it's been hanging on for years with seemingly zero impact on anything besides randomly being annoying for a minute.

I kept waiting for its imminent death or something but it just never came. At this point I assume it's just going to outlive me to spite me.
 
I have bad products from virtually every brand. Whether that's dead on arrival, dead within two weeks, or dead within a handful years.
 
I haven't been keeping up on the latest 5080/5090 news...I know the specs and the release date is January 30th but what about real world performance rumors...on paper the 5080 looks underwhelming (especially compared to the 5090)...is it worth upgrading from my 4080 Super to a 5080?...doesn't seem like it or maybe I'm wrong?...seems like the real upgrade is the 5090 or to wait for the inevitable 5080Ti...am I right?
 
polonyc2 said:
I haven't been keeping up on the latest 5080/5090 news...I know the specs and the release date is January 30th but what about real world performance rumors...on paper the 5080 looks underwhelming (especially compared to the 5090)...is it worth upgrading from my 4080 Super to a 5080?...doesn't seem like it or maybe I'm wrong?...seems like the real upgrade is the 5090 or to wait for the inevitable 5080Ti...am I right?
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With 4080super, it's not worth switching to rtx 5080 if it's about games, in my opinion it's not worth switching to rtx 5090 either.If you're asking, it means you're not interested at all.
Those who question just means that they are not even interested in buying a new graphics card.
The ones on the rtx 4080super and the rtx 4090 can comfortably wait for the rtx 6090 or the rtx 6080.But it also means nothing if money is not a problem, so you buy what you want.
I think that those who have an RTX 3090(and they abstained from rtx 4000 series) will rush to buy RTX 5090.
 
Strange bird said:
With 4080super, it's not worth switching to rtx 5080 if it's about games, in my opinion it's not worth switching to rtx 5090 either.If you're asking, it means you're not interested at all.
Those who question just means that they are not even interested in buying a new graphics card.
The ones on the rtx 4080super and the rtx 4090 can comfortably wait for the rtx 6090 or the rtx 6080.But it also means nothing if money is not a problem, so you buy what you want.
I think that those who have an RTX 3090(and they abstained from rtx 4000 series) will rush to buy RTX 5090.
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besides the crazy $2000 price, the 5090 seems like overkill with 32GB VRAM and requires a 1000 watt PSU which is why I was thinking more about the 5080
 
polonyc2 said:
I haven't been keeping up on the latest 5080/5090 news...I know the specs and the release date is January 30th but what about real world performance rumors...on paper the 5080 looks underwhelming (especially compared to the 5090)...is it worth upgrading from my 4080 Super to a 5080?...doesn't seem like it or maybe I'm wrong?...seems like the real upgrade is the 5090 or to wait for the inevitable 5080Ti...am I right?
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https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-3dmark-performance-leaks-out

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polonyc2 said:
I haven't been keeping up on the latest 5080/5090 news...I know the specs and the release date is January 30th but what about real world performance rumors...on paper the 5080 looks underwhelming (especially compared to the 5090)...is it worth upgrading from my 4080 Super to a 5080?...doesn't seem like it or maybe I'm wrong?...seems like the real upgrade is the 5090 or to wait for the inevitable 5080Ti...am I right?
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The benches are on the 29th, but it by the looks of it, it's barely faster than your current card (looks like 20-30%), unless you play exclusively DLSS4 MFG enabled games, then it's twice the speed.
 
“NVIDIA Claims 16-Pin Power Connector Issues are Over, No More Melting
by AleksandarK Today, 06:07 Discuss (8 Comments)
During a recent press event in South Korea, NVIDIA addressed concerns about power connector safety for their upcoming RTX 5090 graphics card. The new GPU will consume 575 watts of power, marking a massive 225-watt increase from its predecessor, the RTX 4090. The previous generation RTX 4090 faced significant issues with melting 12VHPWR power connectors, especially with third-party adapters, where incomplete connections led to overheating and connector damage. When questioned about potential risks with the RTX 5090's higher power draw, NVIDIA representatives stated they've implemented an updated 12V-2×6 power connector across the RTX 50 series. Unlike the 12VHPWR 16-pin connector, the new 12V-2x6 has sense pins having recessed further back to ensure proper contact before the GPU can request higher power outputs.”
 
GoldenTiger said:
I'd love to see those features optionally to get a better idea of their performance impacts in a synthetic.
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FWIW, the full program has these features, but they are separate tests, likely to keep benchmarks clean and on equal footing score wise, but it does allow you to compare quite nicely. There is one for FSR and XeSS as well.

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polonyc2 said:
I haven't been keeping up on the latest 5080/5090 news...I know the specs and the release date is January 30th but what about real world performance rumors...on paper the 5080 looks underwhelming (especially compared to the 5090)...is it worth upgrading from my 4080 Super to a 5080?...doesn't seem like it or maybe I'm wrong?...seems like the real upgrade is the 5090 or to wait for the inevitable 5080Ti...am I right?
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Reviews are tomorrow availability is going to suck though the only card I want is a 5080 Suprim
 
Comixbooks said:
Reviews are tomorrow availability is going to suck though the only card I want is a 5080 Suprim
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I usually prefer ASUS TUF in terms of price/performance...5090 embargo lifts tomorrow but the 5080 is only on January 30th (which is the day the cards are available for purchase)...seems like they don't want to give potential 5080 owners any time to read reviews
 
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