ASUSROG Astral GeForce RTX™ 5090 Gaming Graphics Card (PCIe® 5.0, 32GB GDDR7, HDMI®/DP 2.1, 3.8-Slot, 4-Fan Design, Axial-tech Fans, Patented Vapor Chamber, Phase-Change GPU Thermal pad)

This RTX 5090 is a beast, plain and simple. If you’re just browsing the web, watching videos, or playing basic games, this card is complete overkill. But if you’re like me and running a triple-screen sim rig with everything maxed out, while streaming at high quality, this is exactly what you want in your build.I’m using this in a triple 32-inch 1440p setup with a 1440p ultrawide up top for telemetry and controls. Running titles like Le Mans Ultimate, iRacing, and Assetto Corsa Competizione, the 5090 barely breaks a sweat. Ultra settings across the board, full ray tracing, heavy ReShade overlays — and still pushing high frame rates with headroom to spare. Streaming to OBS while running overlays, VRS telemetry, and browser extensions? No lag. No stutter. No dropped frames. The performance uplift compared to my previous 4080 Super is unreal.Thermals are solid and it runs quieter than expected given the power it’s pushing. I’m feeding it with a high-end PSU and optimized airflow, and it stays cool even during long race sessions. Plus, having 32 GB of VRAM future-proofs this thing for anything coming down the pipe — sim titles, Unreal Engine games, AI workloads, you name it.This card isn’t made for average gamers. It’s made for power users who demand stability, headroom, and extreme performance. If you’re building or upgrading a serious racing sim or content creation rig, the 5090 is worth every penny.

Whats there else to say? Incredible performance and thermals, I paired it with a Asus Tuf B850 BTF and love the no-cable look inside the case. I did get a Cablemod 4x8 pin to 12vhpwr connector, as I dont like the look (or how much space it takes up) to use 4 PCIE cables with the included adapter. But thats just for looks and absolutely unnecessary for proper functioning.

If you're here, you probably already know precisely what the 4090 is and does. Key takeaways for this TUF variant are that it performs as advertised, is very large and runs relatively cool. Replaced a 10GB 3080, hesitantly, to take full advantage of the 5k+ resolution of a new VR headset. The 3080 just didn't have the stomach for those resolutions. This card pushes 3300x3300 (per eye!) without breaking a sweat in the racing sims and roomscale experiences I've thrown at it. It's almost comical just how much memory and how powerful this GPU has and is.Things to be aware of:- Power requirement. You need 600W dedicated purely to this card if you want to make full use of its potential. That includes 4 SEPARATE dedicated 8-pin PCIe connectors running from your ATX 2.0 PSU's VGA/PCIe/CPU outputs to the 12VHPWR connector that comes with the card. Alternatively, newer ATX 3.0 PSUs come with the 12VHPWR standard, I believe. I went ahead and upgraded to a 1000w gold PSU. 850w minimum spec made me nervous with OC'd CPU and all other cards/USB devices considered.- It's huge. It's "check your available internal case dimensions" levels of huge. Specifically length and height (amount of PCIe slots) are the likely largest concerns, but if you have a slim case, you need to check that too.- It's heavy. Thankfully it comes with a support that works very well. Once in place, there is no concern about the load being put on the PCIe slot.- It can get noisy when hot enough for the fans to start ramping up. There is definitely a little coil whine, but I run my case fans relatively high to begin with and am not noticing it any more than I did with my TUF 3080. Those who like dead-silent systems may want to look elsewhere, but I really think the issue is overblown unless my experience is the exception.- It runs surprisingly cool, even with low fan speed. My case is not spacious, but I have not seen a rise in CPU, motherboard or RAM temps compared to having the 3080 in there.- It can easily outpace single-core performance on a majority of CPUs out there. Beware that any CPU bottlenecks will become immediately evident. I've noticed walls that didn't exist before since the GPU can now handle all display demands at 60% power when unoptimized/single-core heavy sims hit the wall with my aging 10700k at 5ghz.I feel a bit ridiculous being a proponent of an $1,800 GPU, but times have changed. 5k+ resolution HMDs now exist. Triple screen 4k performance is a real thing for others. I would not consider buying this GPU if it weren't for a very specific need of mine, but it's good to know that GPU performance will never be a concern in the foreseeable future and I can focus on eventually updating to a new socket, CPU and DDR5 when it becomes necessary.

This is the single performance boosting item I've ever added to any machine I've ever built and I've been building computers for the last 35 years. 46514 firestrike score compared to my rtx4070ti which only scored 26296! Buy yourself a atx 2.1 power supply and use the new cables that come with your new 2.1 version power supply which allows you to use one heavy duty cable to provide all 600 watts to your graphics card instead of using the 3 way splitter that comes with the card. The new atx 2.1 1500 watt PSU I have can run two RTX5090's if i had to. The card is amazing. Hands down the best performing card i've ever owned and i've had the top tier cards for nvidia all the way back to when the titans used to be available. This runs the quietest, the coolest temperature , and the fastest .

This GPU is literally no better than an MSI 5090 Trio OC, yet it was $3149.99 compared to the $2449.99 of the Trio OC. When I say "no better," I mean on every game I tested (CoD BO6, Halo Infinite, Elden Ring, Black Myth Wukong) it had identical in-game performance (fps, 1% lows, max graphical quality settings) to the MSI 5090. It did run 10 C cooler, but the MSI was never above 80C (77-78 C on max graphical settings), so running cooler for identical performance - when MSI's temps are not enough to throttle - just isn't it. If you're looking for a 5090, save your money and get a cheaper option.