Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 30th anniversary edition is a quad-fan monster card with 800W support

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WTF?! Do you think graphics cards are too big, bulky, and power hungry these days? Then you may want to avert your eyes from the Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 30th Anniversary Edition, an absolute unit of a quad-fan card that supports up to 800W.

Unveiled during Gamescom, Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is a celebration of the company's 30th year in the graphics card business.

It looks a little like something from Cyberpunk 2077 while paradoxically having a bit of a retro look (retrofuturism?) – its size does suggest it would make an effective melee weapon.

There's a red and black color scheme, rear exhaust fan, a curved end, and an infinity mirror light design that appeared on the ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. There's also some snazzy lighting around the outside of the card, just in case it isn't noticeable enough when squeezed into a PC case.

The card supports up to 800W – the base RTX 5090 is rated for 575W. This can be delivered via either a 12V 2x6 connector or Asus' proprietary GC-HPWR (Graphics Card High-Power), also known as the BTF (Back To The Future) connector. Back in June, Asus demonstrated how the BTF power connector design can maintain safe temperatures while delivering 2,600W into an RTX 5090 when used with a compatible motherboard.

Asus says that the Matrix RTX 5090 has the highest available GPU clock speed of 2,730 MHz – the company claims it will offer performance around 10% better than a standard RTX 5090. It also features a full copper vapor chamber, liquid metal thermal compound, and four fans, including the underside fan. All the cooling tech results in more than 5% lower temperatures, apparently.

No word yet on availability or release date for the Matrix RTX 5090. Asus is giving the card away at a Gamescom event, which is good as there will only be 1,000 units made.

Gamescom announcements and trailers are landing thick and fast right now. Check out our look at Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and its four-player co-op campaign, which launches on November 14.

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Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 30th anniversary edition is a quad-fan monster card with 800W support

 
While I never buy the cheapest of anything, I make it a rule to never overpay for something. I have some builds for people that want custom cards that match their builds and are willing to go with a 4070 that matches the theme of their build that costs as much as a 4080.

Some of these cards are so astronomically priced that I find it absurd to pay for them. These limited edition cards aren't like exotic sports cars and will hold their value. After 2 generations they've depreciated to same cost of the base model card. If a 7090 ever comes out, these things will be the same price as the uses 5090s on the second hand market.
 
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Meh... Jacking up for something so mediocre and one of the most lukewarm upgrade ever... And charging an arm and leg for it???

No thanks.
 
I get that there are people with more money than they know what to do with it, as well as an outsize ego that must have the biggest and best of everything, but am I the only one that thinks that a 225w (about 40%) boost in power is ridiculous for a 10% boost in performance?
 
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At 800W, I don't think I would trust anything other than Asus' BTF connector. IIRC, 800W is pushing even 2x 6-pin microfit molex connectors to their limits (2x 6-pin connectors gets you 6x power pins, each can support 10.5A. 12V supply at 10.5A, x6 pins = 756W)
 
mbrowne5061 said:
At 800W, I don't think I would trust anything other than Asus' BTF connector. IIRC, 800W is pushing even 2x 6-pin microfit molex connectors to their limits (2x 6-pin connectors gets you 6x power pins, each can support 10.5A. 12V supply at 10.5A, x6 pins = 756W)
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Two 12v2 connectors are rated for a combined 1250 watts, 625 each. Each connector has 6 power pins each, for a combined total of 12. At 800w each would only be running a 400w load, so long as load balancing is working there should be no issues.
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I get that there are people with more money than they know what to do with it, as well as an outsize ego that must have the biggest and best of everything, but am I the only one that thinks that a 225w (about 40%) boost in power is ridiculous for a 10% boost in performance?
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nobody is forcing you to buy it. You can go buy a normal one, or not buy one at all.


 
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Two 12v2 connectors are rated for a combined 1250 watts, 625 each. Each connector has 6 power pins each, for a combined total of 12. At 800w each would only be running a 400w load, so long as load balancing is working there should be no issues. nobody is forcing you to buy it. You can go buy a normal one, or not buy one at all.
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Each connector has three power pins, each at 12V and 8A, per the ATX3.0 spec:


This gets you 12x8x3=288W per connector, or 576W for both. But the Molex microfit connector is rated for 13A (I originally mis-remembered "micro-fit", when ATX3.0 uses the Mini-fit series):


So you could get it up to 12x13x3=468W, or 936W for both, if you really push up to the rated limits of these connectors (and officially beyond the ATX3.0 spec limit of 8A per pin for a 6-pin connector).

There is no 12v 6-pin connector, only a 4-pin and 8-pin:


If the article meant its using 2x 12VHPWR connectors, they didn't make that clear (does any PSU even offer 2x 12VHPWR connectors?). And the linked press release doesn't seem to list anything about the power connectors, so I assume this info was gathered by speaking to someone at the conference booth.

If you're thinking of a different connector, let me know, I don't see anything else in the ATX3.0 spec. I don't doubt that the BTF connector could handle the power draw, nor do I doubt its presence since ASUS really seems to be pushing its adoption at the high end (as they should; I hope they're pushing Intel to include in a revision to the ATX3.0 spec). But I suspect the info about the molex connectors in use here is wrong or incomplete.
 
Oh good! I was just remarking to my butler that I hoped someone would finally make a limited edition 5090 since the other ones are all so drearily common now.
 
mbrowne5061 said:
Each connector has three power pins, each at 12V and 8A, per the ATX3.0 spec:


This gets you 12x8x3=288W per connector, or 576W for both. But the Molex microfit connector is rated for 13A (I originally mis-remembered "micro-fit", when ATX3.0 uses the Mini-fit series):


So you could get it up to 12x13x3=468W, or 936W for both, if you really push up to the rated limits of these connectors (and officially beyond the ATX3.0 spec limit of 8A per pin for a 6-pin connector).

There is no 12v 6-pin connector, only a 4-pin and 8-pin:


If the article meant its using 2x 12VHPWR connectors, they didn't make that clear (does any PSU even offer 2x 12VHPWR connectors?). And the linked press release doesn't seem to list anything about the power connectors, so I assume this info was gathered by speaking to someone at the conference booth.

If you're thinking of a different connector, let me know, I don't see anything else in the ATX3.0 spec. I don't doubt that the BTF connector could handle the power draw, nor do I doubt its presence since ASUS really seems to be pushing its adoption at the high end (as they should; I hope they're pushing Intel to include in a revision to the ATX3.0 spec). But I suspect the info about the molex connectors in use here is wrong or incomplete.
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The article says it has two 12v 2x6, which is the current GPU power connector standard, and is rated for 625 watts among its 6 POSITIVE pins. It also has 6 negative pins and 4 sensing pins. You are the only one confusing all this with a different connector. Nobody calls the old 6 pin connector 12v2x6.

And yeah, power supplies with multiple GPU power connectors are pretty common. Easy to find on any pc tech website.
 
Theinsanegamer said:
The article says it has two 12v 2x6, which is the current GPU power connector standard, and is rated for 625 watts among its 6 POSITIVE pins. It also has 6 negative pins and 4 sensing pins. You are the only one confusing all this with a different connector. Nobody calls the old 6 pin connector 12v2x6.

And yeah, power supplies with multiple GPU power connectors are pretty common. Easy to find on any pc tech website.
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Then if its just the updated 12VHPWR cable, then the changes were to the card-side to make it a 12V 2x6 connector (all these naming schemes suck, as an aside). The only changes here are lengthening the voltage pins and shortening the sense pins, increasing the chances of sensing an improperly seated cable connector (triggering a shutdown) and increasing the likelihood of the mating pins making good contact.

The 12V 2x6 update made no changes to the cables themselves, so they're still limited to 600W per the ATX3.0 spec:


So, not 625W. And nowhere near 800W. Neither this article not the linked press release mention 2x 12v 2x6 connectors. Hell, even the marketing video on the press release page only shows a single 12v 2x6 connector.

So, again, something isn't adding up. Now I think either you can only access the full 800W via a BTF connector, or it doesn't actually reach 800W.
 
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