Gigabyte Debuts Enhanced Cooling and More Compact NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards at CES 2025

[TheLostSwede]

GIGABYTE, the world's leading computer brand, announced the launch of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards powered by NVIDIA Blackwell and AI, including the GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5090 D, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070, at CES. The latest GIGABYTE graphics card models leverage cutting-edge cooling solutions designed for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs to enhance performance in demanding games. Accomplished with the product design concept "Evolution of Ten", GIGABYTE's GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards improve thermal performance by up to 10% and reduce overall card volume by up to 10% for a more compatible PC-building experience.

Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs bring game-changing capabilities to gamers and creators. Equipped with a massive level of AI horsepower, the RTX 50 Series enables new experiences and next-level graphics fidelity. Multiply performance with NVIDIA DLSS 4, generate images at unprecedented speed, and unleash creativity with NVIDIA Studio. Plus, access NVIDIA NIM microservices - state-of-the-art AI models that let enthusiasts and developers build AI assistants, agents, and workflows with peak performance on NIM-ready systems.




Alongside the latest NVIDIA DLSS technology, GIGABYTE upgraded both AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE and iconic WINDFORCE cooling solutions to complement the high performance of RTX 50 Series GPUs. Upgraded with liquid metal thermal grease, the XTREME WATERFORCE all-in-one water-cooling model delivers up to 10 times the heat transfer coefficient. Meanwhile, the water block model, AORUS XTREME WATERFORCE WB, is designed for customizable water loop builds. Both water-cooling solutions deliver exceptional heat dissipation and silent operation during demanding workloads.

In balancing advanced gaming performance and thermal efficiency on the air-cooling variants, GIGABYTE enhanced the WINDFORCE cooling solution with the new Hawk Fan design to minimize turbulence and noise level, increasing airflow by 12.5%, and delivering up to a 53.6% improvement in air pressure. Server-grade thermal conductive gel can adhere perfectly to the surface of various components without shifting for long-term usage. The premium AORUS MASTER variant takes things a step further, featuring Screen Cooling Plus with an extra air-boosting fan for more airflow and the RTX 5090 MASTER is equipped with Superconducting heat pipes with section sintering technology to improve heat distribution.

With a diverse range of models, including premium AORUS XTREME and MASTER, GIGABYTE AERO, GAMING, EAGLE, and WINDFORCE models with white variants and models that fit the guideline for SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards, GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards cater to a wide range of gamers.

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[Yraggul666]

Nice job, Gigabutt. Does the pcb crack or will the whole thing blow up first??? One can only guess...

 

[lepudruk]

Could someone please explain to me (preferably slowly and in capital letters) why all of those non-referent GPUs are tank-heavy bricks while at the very same time the Nvidia FE is a 2 slot, slim and subtle card? My little mind has BIG PROBLEMS understanding that. Thx!

 

[[crs]]

Nvidia sells them the chips and directly competes with them on price. The companies have to show why theirs is worth the extra cash over the FE editions, so we get uselessly large blingy cards making the general public see new shiny object and hopefully a sale.

 

[Bwaze]

Could someone please explain to me (preferably slowly and in capital letters) why all of those non-referent GPUs are tank-heavy bricks while at the very same time the Nvidia FE is a 2 slot, slim and subtle card? My little mind has BIG PROBLEMS understanding that. Thx!

Most of the world doesn't even have the availability of Nvidia FE cards, and even stores outside of USA that by chance get them they only get a slow trickle.

So AIB partners don't have to engineer a fancy cooling and can slap on something crude and easier to manufacture, and "pretty" it up with an oversized shroud.

 

[duraz0rz]

Could someone please explain to me (preferably slowly and in capital letters) why all of those non-referent GPUs are tank-heavy bricks while at the very same time the Nvidia FE is a 2 slot, slim and subtle card? My little mind has BIG PROBLEMS understanding that. Thx!

Reviews will tell, but I'm guessing the FE is also heavy AF + the fans spin faster to compensate for the lack of surface area compared to the bigger cards. IIRC, that was the case for the FE 4090.

 

[lepudruk]

Reviews will tell, but I'm guessing the FE is also heavy AF + the fans spin faster to compensate for the lack of surface area compared to the bigger cards. IIRC, that was the case for the FE 4090.

There may be something more then that, its cooling is probably more complex then we think:

Each aspect of the new GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been purposefully designed to increase cooling capacity and capabilities by leveraging new design innovations, Liquid Metal thermal interface material (TIM), and a unique 3-piece PCB. Stay tuned for further details about the design of these incredible cards ahead of their release.

New GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards & Laptops Powered By NVIDIA Blackwell Bring Game-Changing AI and Neural Rendering Capabilities To Gamers and Creators

Multiply performance by up to 8X using DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, reduce PC latency by up to 75% with Reflex 2, and experience next-generation RTX Neural Rendering.

www.nvidia.com

 

[Rightness_1]

I hate the fact that I have to buy and OEM 5070ti. The FE looks professional, functional and slick, the rest looks like cheap, bling, gamer boy throw up from 10 years ago.

Why Nvidia doesn't sell the most popular card as an FE is beyond me.