NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Unboxing

[W1zzard]

Unboxing the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" is an experience like no other. This new flagship GPU arrives with sleek packaging that's eco-friendly: no plastic, no high-gloss paint. The card itself comes with a design that exudes power and makes you want to try out the next-gen features.

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[ErikG]

Is it forbidden to show all under fans? Flat cable, etc...

 

[TheLostSwede]

Is it forbidden to show all under fans? Flat cable, etc...

Still under NDA as per page 4.

As of this writing, we are not allowed to post teardown pictures of our GeForce RTX 5090 samples

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Unboxing

Unboxing the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" is an experience like no other. This new flagship GPU arrives with sleek packaging that's eco-friendly: no plastic, no high-gloss paint. The card itself comes with a design that exudes power and makes you want to try out the next-gen features.

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[Chaitanya]

Still under NSA as per page 4.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Unboxing

Unboxing the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 "Blackwell" is an experience like no other. This new flagship GPU arrives with sleek packaging that's eco-friendly: no plastic, no high-gloss paint. The card itself comes with a design that exudes power and makes you want to try out the next-gen features.

www.techpowerup.com

NDA, but who knows given fued between US and certain regions wont be surprised if NSA really was involved.

 

[LocutusH]

Nice packaging from the dark-green age.
Ask them what chemical they use in the wavepaper layers, so it doesnt dust, and fill the card with debris until its delivered.
And how a simple, recyclable PET thermoformed tray, that keeps it clean, and even antistatic would have cost the 1% of that.

 

[TheLostSwede]

NDA, but who knows given fued between US and certain regions wont be surprised if NSA really was involved.

Typo.

 

[LittleBro]

"Inspired by Gamers." Shouldn't it be "Inspired by rich Gamers"? Or "Inspired by profits from previous generation flagship that was never really intended to be sold as gaming GPU at first place and was 95% of time used to accelerate neural networks."?

Nice packaging from the dark-green age.
Ask them what chemical they use in the wavepaper layers, so it doesnt dust, and fill the card with debris until its delivered.
And how a simple, recyclable PET thermoformed tray, that keeps it clean, and even antistatic would have cost the 1% of that.

Exactly. They are so eco-company. I mean who cares that they have been spending shitloads of energy over last 6 years on training the model for a completely unneccessary feature, right?

 

[gridracedriver]

This slide is an incredible scam, why on earth at 35fps native resolution would I have 140ms of latency and not 30ms?
My god Nvidia, my goodness...

 

[Vya Domus]

I see they copied even the cheap packaging from Apple.

 

[BoggledBeagle]

Ask them what chemical they use in the wavepaper layers, so it doesnt dust, and fill the card with debris until its delivered.

The only problem may be a paper particle getting into some connector. Other than that the card will be 100 times more dusty after a few days of operation in average home.

Honestly I would welcome if the card was in some plastic bag, plastic bags can be made chemically simple, so that they produce no toxic fumes when burned, they can be recycled, etc.

 

[the54thvoid]

I mean, I think it looks pretty smart. Not sure how it'll turn out inside a case (with the heat being blown onto the CPU), but they've made it look far more refined that the 4090FE.

 

[lepudruk]

Pitty that they put the power slot diagonally. You won't be able to plug adapters like TG Wireview anymore..

 

[BoggledBeagle]

Not sure how it'll turn out inside a case (with the heat being blown onto the CPU)

CPU AIO water cooler placed in the case air intake solves the problem. These coolers are pretty common and cheap nowadays.

 

[Bomby569]

the price, that box! the Nvidia transformation into Apple is going as planned i see

 

[the54thvoid]

CPU AIO water cooler placed in the case air intake solves the problem. These coolers are pretty common and cheap nowadays.

Yeah, but adds unecessary cost and more than a little inconvenience. GPU - plug and play. AIO - remove old cooler, clean old paste, etc, etc, etc.

 

[N/A]

Rip memory nvme and motherboard phases above the outlets.

 

[BoggledBeagle]

I find it a little bit funny to discuss a card which will be completely or almost unobtainable in a lot of countries. And also unaffordable for many.

 

[LittleBro]

Let's see how the card handles heat dissipation long-term. They remove a lot of metal compared to previous flagship and even raised TGP.
Connectors might not be the only things melting down this time.

This slide is an incredible scam, why on earth at 35fps native resolution would I have 140ms of latency and not 30ms?
My god Nvidia, my goodness...

It's not a scam, more like marketing bullshit. Let's give upscaling-caused distortions away now, when you turn on DLSS/FSR feature and set mode to Performance, it will render only small portion of pixels compared to native resolution. This raises framerate dramatically and higher framerate lowers frame times. You can see result of your actions (keyboard presses, mouse movements) sooner with higher framerate (provided your mouse/keyboard has high enough polling rate and CPU if fast enough). In terms of input latency, there's no point going above your input device polling rate. For example, standard office mouses have 125 Hz polling rate, that means data about it's position change is being transferred to system 125 times a second. So, you won't notice impact of your actions more than that, even if you had 500+ fps. The framerate (animations) will be smoother, though. Some gaming mices have 1kHz or even higher polling rate.

That 140 ms is indeed really overshot. That's around 28.5 ms frame time, with everything other it could yield around 70-80 ms overall system latency.

 

[G777]

Exactly. They are so eco-company. I mean who cares that they have been spending shitloads of energy over last 6 years on training the model for a completely unneccessary feature, right?

Are you implying that DLSS is unnecessary?

 

[Vincero]

Note to Nvidia:

Shipping it in something that looks like a drinks cooler isn't actually gonna make it run cooler

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Such a cool design. Cant wait to get my hands on a 5080 FE.

 

[Selaya]

Pitty that they put the power slot diagonally. You won't be able to plug adapters like TG Wireview anymore..

i would expect them to release a new version of it specifically for this in a few weeks tops

 

[Fleurious]

The angled power plug is great, should help a lot with case compatibility. It’s also nice to see DP 2.1b.

 

[kane nas]

5090

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

It's amazing how many people will rush out to buy this at $2000 so they can get a few more frames while playing on, most likely, a 1440 or 1080p monitor. Psychological obsolescence lol. The same people will scream about housing unaffordability and car insurance prices.