Just for Fun: We Tested MSI's "RTX 5090 Ti" You Probably Can't Buy

[Steve]

MSI's RTX 5090 Lightning Z is a limited-run halo product built without practical constraints. We test its thermals, power draw, and performance to see what's possible at the extreme end of GPU design.

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Just for Fun: We Tested MSI's "RTX 5090 Ti" You Probably Can't Buy

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

Good review, but you skipped two important things:
- what about coil whine
- price\performance chart with electrolux heater

 

[jonny888]

Much more impressive for its cooling than its actual performance gains. But not worth it at all unless you have large amounts of money to burn.

 

[amstech]

Everything's been expensive for years. Get what you like and can afford.
AI is spiking RAM and GPU pricing, its not surprising news.
The 5090 is king of the hill, period. Supply and demand's pricing will reflect that.

 

[amghwk]

If anything is too expensive, I'm NOT interested. Meh... No amount of chart breakers can make me feel depressed.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Some good engineering adds here. Would be nice if we could see trickle-down into other product tiers, as for the past 6 years it has felt as though many of the consumer grade products have been neglected, with even basic cost-cutting such as sleeve bearing fans in even pricey SKUs.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Now this is a proper lightning. Reminds me of the old Fermi lightnings that had that "reactor" blue LED over the GPU on the backside of the card.

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

With that price, you simply better going for 6000 pro with 24k cudas.

I also wonder why HU disassemble all the cards, but only make fancy photos without really reviewing the PCB? I mean, there’s only handful of real reviewers who actually strip the cards

 

[godrilla]

Great review but for the price of one that you can't purchase anyway Alienware is selling a prebuilt with a 5090 ,9800X3D with 360mm lc 32 gigs of ddr5 ram @ 6.4 ghz for $4299.99 plus you can add a 4k 240 hz oled for the difference.


I just got the wireview pro 2 where the device detected and amp imbalance with 2 pins within a 4 hour game session ( although with oc tweak and vanilla software). I upgraded the software and set to default factory settings on the gpu to further monitor it.

Update on the stock situation lock microcenter has dozens in stock at $3500 while still expensive but no where near the $5000 rumors were meant to cause hyper panic.

Lastly the rtx 6000 pro are still holding steady at $8200 mark.

 

[bclaymiles]

You might want to fix the subhead.

 

[TechSavy101]

$5090 for 5.09% faster than MSI 5090 supreme liquid retailing at $3300. Crazy margins.

 

[BogdanR]

Does it run Crysis?