NVIDIA just announced their new RTX 5090
but as cool as the founders Edition card looks realistically that's not the one
that most people are going to end up with which got us thinking what better
place to collect all the Pokémon than here at CES so we task our team with
tracking down every possible variant of the RTX 590 to show you guys some of
these wild designs and we tracked down
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astral 590 and if NVIDIA's concept for their Founders Edition was to go as
Compact and small as possible Asis decided to go completely the other
direction with it this is a 3.8 slot
design it is flipping huge flipping
heavy but makes very good use of that space and weight this is according to
them their first four fan design that's
right two fans blowing directly down onto the board area here a third fan on
the front that blows straight through and a fourth fan that is assisting that
third fan so you can see they actually increased the thin density of the cooler
over here in order to take advantage of that greater static pressure in order to
move the heat off of this massive blackw
die they're using a Custom Vapor chamber that actually has grooves in it that
heat pipes are embedded into for greater surface area to pull all the heat over
to the end of the card here and then there's Zotac who's launching three
versions of the RTX 590 their top dog amp extreme infinity and then the solid
and solid OC which are basically the same card one's overclock the other one
isn't from what the Reps have told me all three cards are pretty similar
feature-wise there are some structural differences and whatnot so I'm going to
focus on the amp extreme infinity and I'll tell you what the differences are in the solid at the end in terms of
looks Zotac definitely seems seems to be going for a more understated Vibe on
these cards I mean compared to the last generation with the crazy RGB like wave
thing it's a lot more simple a lot more streamlined uh aside from the end which
has an infinity mirror there's an RGB ring inside of the mirror which causes
that cool infinity mirror effect and then a RGB strip along the top of the
car along with the logo that lights up all of the lighting is individually
controllable with their software or if you don't want to run another piece of
software they've actually included what they're calling spect link which is an
RGB header that you can connect to your motherboard I just don't know why they
put it on the top of the card it probably wouldn't have been my
first choice but that's where it is now since we're in this region we can kind
of talk about the other stuff over here there's a little button which is your BIOS switch to switch between the max
performance and quieter operation modes they didn't give me any specs as to if
that changes the clock speeds but I assume it probably limits the boost a
little bit lowers the fan speeds a little bit to keep it quiet and then we
have the power connector which there is some updates here compared to their last
generation they actually flipped the connector like some of the other aib
partners so that it's a lot easier to take in and out and they also added an
LED indicator that tells you whether or not the connector is plugged in all the
way and if it detects that it's not plugged in all the way it apparently
will cut power at this port and prevent it from connecting so that you don't
cause a fire overall it seems like a pretty nice looking and very
structurally sound cart don't worry this is a dummy I can't actually break it it
doesn't even work apparently they added a new reinforcement plate on the inside
to increase the rigidity and uh it seems
seems to work now we can talk cooling all three cards are featuring the same
ice storm 3.0 cooler design which has a 34% larger Vapor chamber than last
generation according to Zotac they also have a new style of fan that has each
blade interconnected on the outside edge if you can see that which supposedly
makes them stronger and last longer and they're all individually controllable
now which is an upgrade from the last generation what are you going to do with
that I don't know but if you want this fan to be like 1100 RPM and this one to
be 1,000 and this one to be 900 you can do that like last generation they still
have a zero RPM mode so when the card's not doing anything the fans will just
completely shut off and it is still a pass through cooler design on the end so
the PCB of the card actually ends like here and then this is a fan that
literally just blows straight through you can see the fins inside there
actually I can see you wow and since we're on this side I should probably
mention these cards are are actually shorter than the previous generation by
about an inch so probably about that much shorter uh kind of in line with
NVIDIA's reference design but they are still thick it is a three plus slot card
design they don't have an exact spec for 3.2 or whatever but it kind of looks
like around that and the amp extreme Infinity is ever so slightly thicker
than the solid card we're talking like a quarter or an eighth of an inch here it's nothing crazy now in terms of other
things they don't know yet they don't have Boost clock speeds for me they
don't have weight for me and I can't weigh this one because if you can see
here it's missing all the electronics there's no GPU even in here so we're
just going to have to wait and find out as for what comes in the box they're including a metal support stand with any
of their triple fan cards so that means any of their 509s they also include the
Spectra Link cable so you can connect it to your motherboard and it'll come of
course with a 12volt high power to 4 8 Pin adapter and then there's the solid
and solid OC which for seemingly most intense and purposes is almost the exact
same card it's got the same fans it's got the same coolers it's got RGB
although a little bit more basic still has a BIOS switch still has the fancy
power connector still has the spectral link motherboard connector it's
physically very similar Dimensions it happens to use up a tiny bit less slot
space like you're talking maybe a quarter of an eighth of an inch but to
be honest I think the design on this one is more my style even though it's a
little bit costed down like a more Basic Metal back plate instead of the fancy
CNC machined one on the infinity edge it's more understated it's clean has
less gimmicks which is kind of my vibe and on all three cards you can expect a
warranty of 3 years just like the previous generation and just like pretty much every NVIDIA card and that's zot
they have their entire RTX 50 Series lineup in all three skew so check them
out or maybe check out the next card but maybe you're feeling a little bit more
lucky and that's where msi's new Vanguard comes in if you get the launch
edition of their 50 Series Vanguard cards you can get one of their little
lies right here and they are very funl looking my personal favorites are the
little lucky with some boba or the beer lucky both absolutely fantastic but wait
what the heck is a Vanguard card let's
look at it let's take a look at msi's lineup of gpus here their absolute most
balls ofth wall one is the Supreme liquid OC this guy right here has a
really cool really massive copper plate on the bottom big old impingement jet
that gets both your GPU and all of your vrms in one stepping down by one we have
the Supreme right here but the aircooled version still absolutely massive sort of
thing that makes your PCIe slots say lay ouch moving on the Vanguard has just
been stolen what a dick but that is basically your supreme overclocked but a
little bit more gamer esque with loads of RGB moving on to the gaming Trio this
is more of like your very standard card you can expect slightly higher
temperatures than Supreme in the Vanguard but it still is going to be
pretty reasonable of course if you want white that is an option in the 50 Series
although if you're looking for something a little bit more professional there's
the venti that's lower end one of course with the 59 hitting
570 wat the coolers are quite big on the
liquid version of it it is now a 360 mm
just for your GPU which means that your cases might have to also bon in size
moving over we can look at the 590 Supreme and this right here is
absolutely massive inside of this there are 11 heat pipes and just you could
work out with this thing we don't have the scale here but like this is actual
metal all aluminum it is an obscenely
heavy card now they do have different versions of this that will be coming but
sadly they don't have them here but we will have a 4fan and a five fan version
of this that look super cool it's a bit
of a Choose Your Own Adventure depending on the exact dimensions of your case and
on to the next purse next up is gigabyte and they've got four variants of the
5090 and we're going to go through all of them really quickly but I'm going to
focus on only one of them but first up we've got the gaming OC with their RGB
sheath so you can turn it on and off if you want with the flick of a well not
the flick of a switch but the slide of a sheath the next too that I can't
interact too much cuz they're bolted to the stand is the new 590 extreme water
Force water block looks pretty sick that's for you water cooling
enthusiasts not for me but for someone
who doesn't want to water cool a loop but you do like aiio in your system
we've got the 590 extreme water Force 32G no WB no water block this one is
going to fit right into your system no issues you just install it like you
would a normal graphics card and then B the radiator to somewhere in your case
that it's going to fit I hope you've got a case that's big enough to fit a 360
mil rad because that's how big it is and last but not least the 90 Master this is
their Halo tier Flagship product and it is huge I went all the way to the studio
on Saturday morning to pick up the scale that Andrew forgot because we were going
to weigh these cards and guess what no one else has so by gosh you know I have
to do it it's weighing in at a whopping 5.79 lb we don't have a bunch of specs
like price warranty information or even length but it's longer than my forearm
as for looks it is absolutely beautiful we've got this really nice shiny front
everything else is pretty much all blacked out and then for any of you non-vertical mounting folk it's going to
have a bunch of RGB on the front of the card the cooling solution looks
absolutely monstrous so even though it's pulling 575 WTS and the Fe version is
Tiny who knows what that's going to heat up to this thing is almost definitely
going to stay cool no matter what you're putting it through not only is it going
to come with a dual boot mode so you can switch it to gaming or silent but it's
also going to come with a GPU brace so that even with all of this heft you'll
be supported it's not just going to fall out of those slots you're good to go
their data card here also says that this should be RGB on the metal back plate so
it's going to look real nice in your case and you're not going to have to
spring for some fancy extra RGB GPU back
plate back to you lonus the 5090 Founders Edition is just a feet of
engineering through and through this is the entire main PCB and I do mean main
because there is two more of them you might be wondering why that's because
this sits in the middle of the card and as we'll see in a moment there is dual
flow through fans on each side of it on the back side of this incredibly dense
and surprisingly like heavy PCB is two
plugs right here and right here those are for the extenders that go out to
your PC I express and your I/O on the
end I'm going to trade you the card now
so as you can see the actual PCB is just
in the middle here which means it shouldn't be able to go all the way
across to your PCI Express and it shouldn't be able to reach to your IO so
they have to extend those with additional small pcbs it'll make water
cooling a little bit complicated but it will also make it so that your water
cooled version of this card will be really really small the coolest part for
the actual just air cooled ver version though is those dual flowthrough fans
I'm hoping you can see that on the camera right now it flows through on
this side and it flows through on this side the Dual flowthrough fans push air
through the 3D Vapor chamber on each side of the PCB and there's vents on the
side that angle air up so that the hot
air coming out the back of the card ideally doesn't recirculate back to the
intake as well man they thought of freaking everything and I mean it these
fins are concaved so they can try to equal out the pressure generated from
the fans like this is this is honestly one of the coolest coolers that I've
ever personally seen I love this thing and it's not even that big I mean it's
not small but compared to a 4090 it it it barely even exists you could fit this
into a small form factor PC its actual dimensions height 137 mm length 304 mm
you can fit this in a lot of things it's a lot more Dynamic than the Behemoth of
the 490 that we had in the past and honestly I'm stoked it also features by
default an angled power connector which might help you with cable routing if
that cable was running a little bit too close to your case side panel in terms
of IO you've got three DisplayPort 2.1b
uh hbr 20s and one HDMI 2.1b they
they're they're both 2.1b I I didn't screw that up they're actually both 2.1b
wow I don't know if I was expecting all of the designs to be that different but
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