ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 TUF

W1zzard · 2025-03-12T19:38:00+0000

The ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 TUF comes at a $450 price increase over the NVIDIA MSRP, and that's not even the OC model. You get excellent build quality, great looks, and some unexpected extra performance. Thanks to the dual BIOS you have a choice between great temperatures and a quiet gaming experience.

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Denver · 2025-03-12T20:01:26+0000

Why is the 9070 XT consistently 4-5% slower than in the launch review, while the 7900XTX and 5070 ti are not?

Have you retested with an AMD reference model?

W1zzard · 2025-03-12T20:05:56+0000

Denver said:
Have you retested with an AMD reference model?

yes

_roman_ · 2025-03-12T20:08:53+0000

I expect dp 2.1a on a graphic card in 2025

The cooler fan shroud is not to my liking. I had too many issues with notebooks with similar screw structures.

Thanks for the teardowns.

Toss · 2025-03-12T20:09:50+0000

I think my tactic will be order, use for 10 days, return, next store order use for 10 days return and so on until prices drop to sane ones.
I have all the time in the world for that

MrDweezil · 2025-03-12T20:14:53+0000

The ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 TUF comes at a $450 price ...

Hell yes, now we're talking

... increase over the NVIDIA MSRP

Oh

Ronnyv1 · 2025-03-12T20:39:57+0000

sorry but $450 for a fancy looking cooler? this is what we're accepting now? had they slapped this cooler onto a 5080 it'd been roughly $1250, adding on a percentage at 2k is just awful and not worth supporting over the reference model

Event Horizon · 2025-03-12T20:54:55+0000

That extra $450 could go toward a physx card and a nice nvme.

Dahita · 2025-03-12T20:58:30+0000

Can you imagine that, $4000 to play Stalker 2 at 85fps in 4K. What is it? Bad game engine? Stagnation of hardware performance? Both probably..

Jeager · 2025-03-12T21:34:23+0000

Dahita said:
Can you imagine that, $4000 to play Stalker 2 at 85fps in 4K. What is it? Bad game engine? Stagnation of hardware performance? Both probably..

Just imagine you are running DLSS5 and enjoy x5 FPS in your mind

EsliteMoby · 2025-03-12T22:06:41+0000

Dahita said:
Can you imagine that, $4000 to play Stalker 2 at 85fps in 4K. What is it? Bad game engine? Stagnation of hardware performance? Both probably..

I guess Moor Law is dead. Transistors cannot be shrunk any more past the 4nm mark. Nvidia had to resort to DLSS upscaling gimmick while still wanting to charge 3X more price for their AI marketing.

Roph · 2025-03-13T02:03:25+0000

Shouldn't the dangerous power connector be listed among the cons?

wolf · 2025-03-13T02:23:20+0000

Where do they get off charging $450 just for their board and cooler. Like it's decent and all, but man this TUF should be MSRP with the apparent lack of a Prime model for the 5090.

Also interesting differences with the 9070XT as pointed out, the OC/premium models reviewed at launch were a healthy little boost for it relative to a reference spec model.

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · 2025-03-13T03:35:00+0000

Any plans on replacing RE4 Benchmark with Monster Hunter Wilds, or at least Dragon's Dogma 2?

. Thank you again for a great review!

N/A · 2025-03-13T03:46:10+0000

Compared to astral everything looks like a toy now.

tpa-pr · 2025-03-13T03:55:12+0000

Bjorn_Of_Iceland said:
Any plans on replacing RE4 Benchmark with Monster Hunter Wilds, or at least Dragon's Dogma 2? . Thank you again for a great review!

Dragon's Dogma 2 would probably be the better idea since it's "complete" in terms of patches (I think) and Wilds needs a LOT more work.

Onasi · 2025-03-13T04:07:04+0000

…that’s really not a great cooler for paying 450 over MSRP (lol). I know Asus have a premium they like to ask, but this ain’t it in terms of actual cooling performance.

W1zzard · 2025-03-13T05:46:27+0000

Bjorn_Of_Iceland said:
Any plans on replacing RE4 Benchmark with Monster Hunter Wilds, or at least Dragon's Dogma 2? . Thank you again for a great review!

Yeah RE4 will be replaced by MHW next round of retesting. No plans for Dragon's Dogma 2

Legacy-ZA · 2025-03-13T06:01:45+0000

Onasi said:
…that’s really not a great cooler for paying 450 over MSRP (lol). I know Asus have a premium they like to ask, but this ain’t it in terms of actual cooling performance.

They use the same cooler on their AMD GPU's too, yet there they only charge $150 over MSRP for the AMD card, and a whopping extra $300 on the nGreedia side. :roll:

I am sure there are "reasons" :rolleyes:

Eventually in life, you will reach a point where you can filter through the bs instantly, there is no going back. :nutkick:

The Quim Reaper · 2025-03-13T07:21:48+0000

Rip off brand for the FOMO fuckheads.

Ruru · 2025-03-13T08:23:04+0000

Roph said:
Shouldn't the dangerous power connector be listed among the cons?

And the extra 8 ROPs over most models.

JustBenching · 2025-03-13T08:34:41+0000

Roph said:
Shouldn't the dangerous power connector be listed among the cons?

No, cause it isn't dangerous.

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