Thursday, February 27th 2025
ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition Breaks Six Overclocking Records
ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) announced today that the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition graphics card has broken four world records and two global first place records in 3DMark Port Royal, 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme, 3DMark Time Spy Extreme, UNIGINE Superposition 1080p Xtreme, UNIGINE Superposition 8K Optimized, and GPUPI v3.3 32B.
ROG Astral is the flagship ASUS graphics cards family, and this OC Edition achieves a stunning boost clock speed of 2580 MHz right out of the box. A cutting-edge thermal solution keeps the heavyweight GeForce RTX 5090 GPU cool: a bold quad-fan design and phase-change GPU thermal pad ensure healthy temperatures that boost hardware longevity. Plus, a vapor chamber helps prevent heat buildup - offering one more layer of protection to keep performance at its peak. This card also packs premium power delivery to make sure the GPU gets stable, reliable power.
To learn more about the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC's incredible features and capabilities, visit the official ROG blog.
Powerhouse NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs feature fourth-generation ray tracing cores for next-level RT performance and fifth-generation Tensor Cores for advanced framerate-boosting DLSS 4 features. It also has neural processors to produce high-fidelity visuals with minimal memory usage. With a GeForce RTX 5090, users can expect unparalleled graphics and performance in their favorite games.
To monitor the card's record-setting output in real time or to adjust individual GPU parameters, users can leverage the ASUS GPU Tweak III desktop app. ROG Astral graphics cards also unlock an exclusive feature within GPU Tweak III called Power Detector+. This can detect anomalies across any of the twelve power pins of the 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 cable that is connected to the card. If a fault is detected, the user is immediately notified that the power cable needs to be reseated. For more information on how this app helps optimize GPU performance, refer to the official GPU Tweak III landing page.
The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition is starting to hit the shelves. When picking up this powerhouse graphics card, users should make sure they have a power supply that can keep up; ASUS recommends the ROG Thor 1200 W Platinum III or ROG Thor 1600 W Titanium III, depending on the CPU, overclocking plan, and connected peripherals.
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ROG Astral is the flagship ASUS graphics cards family, and this OC Edition achieves a stunning boost clock speed of 2580 MHz right out of the box. A cutting-edge thermal solution keeps the heavyweight GeForce RTX 5090 GPU cool: a bold quad-fan design and phase-change GPU thermal pad ensure healthy temperatures that boost hardware longevity. Plus, a vapor chamber helps prevent heat buildup - offering one more layer of protection to keep performance at its peak. This card also packs premium power delivery to make sure the GPU gets stable, reliable power.
Powerhouse NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs feature fourth-generation ray tracing cores for next-level RT performance and fifth-generation Tensor Cores for advanced framerate-boosting DLSS 4 features. It also has neural processors to produce high-fidelity visuals with minimal memory usage. With a GeForce RTX 5090, users can expect unparalleled graphics and performance in their favorite games.
To monitor the card's record-setting output in real time or to adjust individual GPU parameters, users can leverage the ASUS GPU Tweak III desktop app. ROG Astral graphics cards also unlock an exclusive feature within GPU Tweak III called Power Detector+. This can detect anomalies across any of the twelve power pins of the 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 cable that is connected to the card. If a fault is detected, the user is immediately notified that the power cable needs to be reseated. For more information on how this app helps optimize GPU performance, refer to the official GPU Tweak III landing page.
The ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition is starting to hit the shelves. When picking up this powerhouse graphics card, users should make sure they have a power supply that can keep up; ASUS recommends the ROG Thor 1200 W Platinum III or ROG Thor 1600 W Titanium III, depending on the CPU, overclocking plan, and connected peripherals.
23 Comments on ASUS ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 OC Edition Breaks Six Overclocking Records
Very reassuring, with your 2500> dollar purchase, to have layers of protection for what would otherwise inevitably fail, I guess?
Not sure this marketing is doing what it needs to do lol
Power number for card > tolerances for power connector and common sense. End of story. Even if not a single one would have burned up straight at launch, I'd stay miles away. This product the way it is designed should not be trusted at all.
On the topic, it's hilarious how how a vapor chamber and a phase change thermal pad is protection. It makes no sense how those are being hyped up as premium features on a $3000 graphics card. Also the power load sensing feature is pointless as it does nothing while the cable could already be melting.
Besides that, the 12v connector is a POS in any way you look at it. Chilll out is the wrong attitude. Consumers have every right being upset, being treated like this.
Do you really think the situation is that bad but they still decided to go ahead with the connector and pay for all these faulty cards? The whole argument just doesn't stand the test of reason. Either nvidia doesn't care about burning money for no reason or the situation is really not as dire.
suppose it's the thread ripper ....
AMD should absolutely be held accountable if they bear any responsibility but at this point it remains pretty unclear.
That issue hasn't happened at the same rate or as long as the melting connector issue.
You'll complain about AMD not getting media attention (even when they did in fact) when the picture isn't clear on a smaller scale potential issue while defending Nvidia's very obvious mistakes. Totally not a double standard.Your argument assumes that Nvidia never makes mistakes and has complete competency but then what are the numerous issues with the 5000 series? Driver crashing, missing ROPs, and etc. That's certainly "burning money" and invalidates your argument.
Heck Nvidia may well be making more money as a result of these burning connectors for all we know. We don't know the long term failure rate of these cards yet outside of warranty, it may be that Nvidia calculated that the small cost increase of RMAing additional cards in warranty was worth the number of sales they'd generate from additional cards failing outside of warranty.
Of course it could also just be that Nvidia screwed up and refuses to admit to it's mistake and people who defend the connector and use the "user error" bs argument have emboldened them. Corporations are comprised of people, the assumption that they can only act on logic is a false one. You see companies make irrational decisions all the time.
ANY increase in failure rate as a result of the new connector is unacceptable. Why should people accept a less reliable power delivery system?
If the issue has to be bad enough within the warranty period to the point where it's hurting company margins, that's an insanely high bar. It's also nonsensical from a customer standpoint. We know the connector has less safety margin, has issues distributing current on reseating, has a low mating count, requires clearance out of the connector to prevent pin spread. It is objectively worse all around than that which preceded it. Yet here we have customers making arguments as if they are stock holders arguing against their own interests. It's only bad to you when Nvidia's margins are hit. People need to snap out of their corporate stoogery, Nvida / AMD / Intel are not your friend. Although TBH if someone were an Nvidia stock holder, it still makes sense to call out their BS. Inhibiting an environment where a company can do now wrong breeds incompetence and causes existing issue to not get fixed. Intel is a good example of this. I remember when certain people were defending Intel's use of TIM as "superior to solder". How'd that turn out for Intel?