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ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral Liquid OC

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The $3400 ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral Liquid OC is the company's flagship RTX 5090 model. It uses a 360 mm liquid cooling solution to handle the 600 W heat output of the RTX 5090 GPU. Testing in our review confirms: it's the fastest RTX 5090, with lowest temps and best thermals, but also with the highest price.

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All that for a 5% uplift over the FE. Seems like a good deal. Then again, considering the prices on 5090s you might as well.
 
Onasi said:
All that for a 5% uplift over the FE. Seems like a good deal. Then again, considering the prices on 5090s you might as well.
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I bought the MSI 4090 Liquid Suprim, not for FPS performance but for the significant cooling/noise difference. Even at the Quiet BIOS setting, it outperforms any air-cooled 4090 in cooling and noise.

I also want to get a liquid-cooled 5090, but the 360 rad size prevents me since I will need a significantly bigger case, which I don't want to do.
 
Switching from watercooling back to air cooling, I can finally sleep very well. <3
 
zenlessyank said:
Costs 4x as much as my 7900XTX and yet its not 4x as fast. Not even 2x.

I can buy a more powerful workstation card for that money. So what is this new drug these guys are taking to make them think this is a good idea?
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Your card has 55% of the performance in raster, 43% the performance in RT, and is 10x slower in path tracing, besides having 66% of the VRAM with about half the bandwidth. For some, the difference in money isn't meaningful, but the performance difference certainly is.
 
zenlessyank said:
I can buy a more powerful workstation card for that money. So what is this new drug these guys are taking to make them think this is a good idea?
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No, you can’t. The only more powerful card is the A6000 Blackwell and that is twice the price of this AT BEST.
 
  • The ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 Astral Liquid comes at an MSRP of $3720 but sells currently for $3370.
Perhaps the opposite?
 
I think if possible the graphic card weight should be determined in a weight range from xxxx gramms to xxxx gramms.

I assume the weight is important to determine if the graphic card may need some extra mechanical support in the case.

Dimensions of the card are 29.0 x 15.5 cm (without the radiator), and it weighs 3489 g (including the radiator).
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3.5kg is misleading as it includes the radiator weight. I assume the radiator will have separate mounting.

-- Nice high end card. I still miss in the negative points that the card lacks two new "nvidia most only" GPU-PSU connectors (12x some gibberish connector name)

Those who buy it will be very happy. Nice card but not for me. The card was as far as i know used in the gamers nexus and bearded guy overclocking session which was streamed on youtube. And that card was much too loud for the noise over the stream. You may work at the airport and be happy with that noise
 
Only interesting form a tech perspective, because in all other regards, its an utterly pointless products for the vast majority of consumers.
 
zenlessyank said:
Excuse me?

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You’re excused. Not faster. It’s just a 7900XT with more VRAM. That’s even without mentioning that it’s, well, not NVidia and, as such, has no CUDA support which is non-negotiable for many applications.
 
_roman_ said:
I assume the weight is important to determine if the graphic card may need some extra mechanical support in the case.
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Good point, updated to " and it weighs 3489 g including the radiator, 2050 g without the radiator."
 
Onasi said:
All that for a 5% uplift over the FE. Seems like a good deal. Then again, considering the prices on 5090s you might as well.
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Er, you will NEVER be able to get it at that price...
 
Thanks for the review. Very nice card. The only disadvantage for me is the price.
 
Amazon Spain some days ago!
 

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I've always appreciated Asus engineering on their highest-end, halo-product GPUs, the price is just too extreme in this case though.

I can't see myself spending this much when - for the same money - you could have the 5090 and all the leftover money could pay for top end full-coverage block, a full custom water cooling setup - fittings rads, fans, controller, CPU block, the works, AND you'd still have money to spare.
 
Onasi said:
All that for a 5% uplift over the FE. Seems like a good deal. Then again, considering the prices on 5090s you might as well.
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You can almost certainly overclock the FE 5%, so getting one of these liquid Astrals and not also overclocking the snot out of it is practically a crime.

When the 5090 Ti or 5090 Super comes out, all of these insanely-pushed 5090 cards are going to look very silly - you're paying 70% more than the FE and the Ti/Super will come along at probably the FE's price point with 13% more shaders unlocked.
 
For the GPU Compute section, will there be any update for 50 series gpus?

From what I've read, the latest version of Topaz video AI supports 50 series gpus. So the 5090 should now outperform a 4090.

I've also read that Stable Diffusion can now be run on the 5090 as well.
 
New hotfix driver for nGreedia GPUs just popped, may the odds forever be in your favour. :/

NVIDIA Support

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Legacy-ZA said:
New hotfix driver for nGreedia GPUs just popped, may the odds forever be in your favour. :/

NVIDIA Support

nvidia.custhelp.com nvidia.custhelp.com
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JFC, another one! How shockingly bad was 576.02 that it needs multiple emergency hotfixes?!

At least this one is just game-specific issues. I'm running 576.15 hotfix which solves the frequent blackscreening, the resume from sleep/standby issues, as well as the broken sensor monitoring used for fan control. We're using Lumion too, which is broken on 576.02, but fortunately none of the 8 workstations with 5060Ti cards have gone to Lumion users yet.

As for the other three major failings of the 576.02 driver, each of those is a major issue by itself, so for Nvidia to release the 5060Ti with a driver that has all three issues at once is nothing short of spectacular incompetence.

I've been buying Nvidia GPUs at work since the 20-series (blame CUDA's cemented monopoly in the creator/professional API world) and I don't think I've experienced a driver shit show this bad ever before, even through all the AMD GPUs (switched to them for the higher VRAM capacities after Nvidia started being stingy with VRAM on the Geforce 200-series)
 
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