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Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC

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The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Gaming OC is a factory overclocked custom-design variant of NVIDIA's new flagship. It comes with a powerful cooling solution that achieves very low noise levels when the quiet BIOS is activated. Gigabyte's card also has its default power limit increased to 600 W for extra performance.

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This has probably already been discussed but is frame gen really a plus? For people who actually need it (sub 60 fps) they have to cope with the input lag and people who get 60+ fps don't really need it.
 
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Question - why does the 20ms spike charts has values that are universally higher than the previous reviews for pretty much all the cards? I mean it changed even compared to the 5080 reviews.

Edit: Actually, all the power charts are different. Full retest of all cards with some new methodology?
 
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Overclocking the Gigabyte Gaming OC worked very well, and we gained +8.5% in real-life performance, on top of the factory overclock—very impressive. Unfortunately NVIDIA is limiting the maximum overclocking for the GDDR7 memory chips to +375 MHz—usually NVIDIA doesn't have any OC limits. I guess that's just another bug that will be fixed eventually—we really want to push these memory chips to the max!
3 drivers have been released, and you still think this is a bug?
 
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Thanks for the teardown pictures. Do we really need thermalputty on the capacitors?
Are the capacitors not rated for 100°C?

That fan noise is really a good selling point to buy that card.

Gamers Nexus had another 5090 card in their oc stream a few hours ago. The 100% fan curve of that ASUS card was not to my liking in that overclocking livestream on youtube.
 
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Question - why does the 20ms spike charts has values that are universally higher than the previous reviews for pretty much all the cards? I mean it changed even compared to the 5080 reviews.

Edit: Actually, all the power charts are different. Full retest of all cards with some new methodology?
The average calculated from all reviewed models(?)

High-end GPUs should be water-cooled in the next generation, at least the reference models.
 

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This has probably already been discussed but is frame gen really a plus? For people who actually need it (sub 60 fps) they have to cope with the input lag and people who get 60+ fps don't really need it.
You should probably watch this video from hardware unboxed. -

Frame gen works best when the mininum frames are over 60 fps.
It's tech for 80 and 90 series cards.
 
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This has probably already been discussed but is frame gen really a plus? For people who actually need it (sub 60 fps) they have to cope with the input lag and people who get 60+ fps don't really need it.
It's useful at +60 fps. 160-240Hz displays exist. I turn it on in Cyberpunk and get around 170-200 "fake" fps and it does feel smooth on 240Hz display.
 
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You should probably watch this video from hardware unboxed. -

Frame gen works best when the mininum frames are over 60 fps.
It's tech for 80 and 90 series cards.

Correct; so the irony is, it's a useless feature unless your GPU is powerful enough, anything below a 5080, won't give you that 60FPS+ with Pathtracing. You just get to pay for old gen tech for a higher price, ergo, a overpriced turd.
 
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Compared to the second-fastest Ada card, the RTX 4080 Super, the performance increase is 82%—wow!


If she is 80% faster then 4090, that will be wow.
 
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First Gigabyte review I've seen.
Disappointed to see testing wasn't done on the current graphic driver version, but I understand the amount of retesting work it would take and makes a unfair comparison to the other partner cards that have been reviewed.
My RTX 4090 was the Gaming OC, quiet (no coil whine) and ran cool. Not the best looking.
 
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I wonder if this has fan rattle at high speed. I know the 40 series "OC" models could rattle at high fan speed. Effective cooler, but cheaply made; well, mounted at least.
 
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153 fps on Stalker 2 in 1080p?! Am I the only one shocked at the poor brute performance there?
This review was done with an older version of the game. As they're continuing to use the game version from the first RTX 5090 FE review. There's been a recent patch 1.2 to STALKER 2 that fixes 1,700 things. There also might be smidge better performance and OCing ability for the recent driver version too. See article link below.
 
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What's wrong with Gigabyte? Is it hard to make good cooling solution? Most of the time Gigabyte GPU is the loudest or hottest. Even huge 3x slot 3x fan solutions are pretty bad.

On Quiet BIOS, it seems fine. It's a cheaply made cooler and fan shroud on their "OC" line-up as I mentioned before. Loud and prone to rattles. But, again, on the quiet BIOS, it's fine.
 
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This review was done with an older version of the game. As they're continuing to use the game version from the first RTX 5090 FE review. There's been a recent patch 1.2 to STALKER 2 that fixes 1,700 things. There also might be smidge better performance and OCing ability for the recent driver version too. See article link below. I'd use TPU's link about the story, but didn't find an article from them yet.
There was an article from TPU on this patch, but improvements in perf was over specific issues, not overall game, and this is an average, so I don't see what would improve much.

It is really disappointing that the elite of the latest graphic card cannot run a standard, recent game in 4K at more than 100fps. And it's not just the card's fault, of course. But still.
 
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On Quiet BIOS, it seems fine. It's a cheaply made cooler and fan shroud on their "OC" line-up as I mentioned before. Loud and prone to rattles. But, again, on the quiet BIOS, it's fine.
I dont think "cheaply made cooler and fan shroud" is acceptable for $2350
 

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The pictures in the review are correct for the Gaming OC but several parts in the Introduction make me wonder if this card was confused for the Windforce. "the company's most affordable custom design take on this generation's flagship gaming GPU" and the MSRP of $2350 apply to the Windforce and not the Gaming OC, which is their middle-tier option and retails at $2650
 
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It seems the MSI Suprim is still giving the best thermal and noise performance. Pretty rad.

Glad to see that Gigabyte implemented their correction to the PCB. On their initial gaming OC 4090, there were a number of users with cracking PCBs near the PCI slot. It seems to have been because of the larger than normal cut out. TPUs original Gigabyte 4090 gaming OC was this Rev 1.0 but Gigabyte made a 1.1 version of the PCB.

PCB 1.0 from TPU review
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PCB 1.1 from Reddit post below.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1an9rgl
 
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great “ Lamborghini“ review. I cannot buy a Lamborghini because I can’t afford it. I can’t buy a 5090 because it’s not available.

but still great to have this infomation.
 
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It's useful at +60 fps. 160-240Hz displays exist. I turn it on in Cyberpunk and get around 170-200 "fake" fps and it does feel smooth on 240Hz display.
Would you say that it feels way smoother than without framegen? I find it hard to believe until I try if out for myself
 

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Would you say that it feels way smoother than without framegen? I find it hard to believe until I try if out for myself
You can try just basic frame gen with lossless scaling and ime even with that 60fps + frame gen feels much better than 60fps without. Latency doesn't change but visual smoothness goes up a lot
 
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