Packaging

The Card

NVIDIA's RTX 5090 comes with a refreshed Founders Edition design theme. It's instantly recognizable that this is a FE card, but there have been small aesthetics tweaks, like more smooth corners etc. Also note that both sides of the back now have cutouts for air to flow though.


Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 14.0 cm, and it weighs 1814 g.


Here's the RTX 5090 compared to the RTX 4090. Same footprint, but just two slots.


Installation requires two slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 40 mm.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 and one HDMI 2.1a.


Inside the Founders Edition box you'll find an 8-pin to 16-pin adapter. This is a new model that feels MUCH better, thanks to software cables and a better plug that's more massive, so it can withstand more abuse.


Here's a side-by-side comparison between the old and new adapter.


The card uses a single 16-pin connector, which allows a maximum power draw of 600 W. NVIDIA has improved the location of the adapter, and it's recessed now and comes out at an angle.


NVIDIA's Founders Edition features white lighting on the GeForce RTX logo and around the air inlets on both sides. The lighting effect is static, it can't be adjusted in color or brightness. There's also no way to turn it off.

Teardown

NVIDIA's FE cooler uses a large vapor-chamber baseplate.


Five double-length heatpipes move heat away quickly from the GPU surface to the heatsink area.