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Digital Trends
2 hours ago
- Digital Trends
Asus' new RTX 5090 is powerful, flashy, and impossibly hard to get
What's happened? Asus just launched a new limited edition GPU, and it'll most likely top every ranking of the best graphics cards. The GPU in question is the Asus ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 – 30th Anniversary Limited Edition. This GPU is like nothing I've ever seen before. It sports a whole new take on cooling and ups the power headroom by a whole lot compared to the (already beastly) RTX 5090. The new RTX 5090 Matrix was made to celebrate 30 years of Asus being in the graphics card business. Specs-wise, it's basically an RTX 5090, but there are notable differences. This model of the RTX 5090 will ship with a 2,730MHz boost clock speed when used at 800 watts. The ROG Matrix GPU comes with two power connectors, one standard 16-pin 12V-2×6 and one GC-HPWR, also known as BTF, which connects directly to an Asus motherboard. Outside of the performance boost, the ROG Matrix RTX 5090 is a unique-looking card, with an unusual shape and black and white coloring. The design reminds me of cards from a decade ago — it's been a while since we've seen similar shrouds. This is important because: Asus' is pushing new heights with its new halo card, boosting clock speeds, cooling, and power delivery beyond even its most expensive GPUs. With Asus promising to deliver an up to 10% performance boost compared to the standard RTX 5090, this GPU will likely become the most powerful consumer card on the market. Using both connectors gives the card up to 800 watts of power, which is a massive increase over the RTX 5090 — at least 200 watts. This ups the overclocking headroom considerably, and the card comes overclocked from the get-go. Asus calls it a limited edition, positioning Matrix as a collectible flagship alongside the standard ROG lineup. Recommended Videos Why should I care? For most builders, this GPU is pure eye candy. It might never make it into our hands, but it's thrilling to see. The ROG Matrix RTX 5090 offers everything you'd want in a high-end GPU. It comes with liquid metal GPU cooling, quad fans, and copper cooling. With higher clocks, it'll likely be the best GPU out there, but you may not be able to buy it. OK, what's next? The GPU was introduced at Gamescom and can be won during the event. Buying a GPU is hard if you want to own this particular model. Asus hasn't revealed how to get it outside of Gamescom. Only 1,000 units will be made, which means that this GPU will likely be highly sought after. The pricing is yet to be revealed, but it'll likely cost well above $3,000. This isn't the only unique card Asus launched this year. The gold-coated Dhahab Edition RTX 5090 is yet another example of an extreme RTX 5090.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Yahoo
RTX 5090 prices are so ludicrous that Alienware gaming PCs actually feel, dare I say, reasonable
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Brace yourself. This Alienware Area 51 gaming PC is over $5,000. That is the kind of money I will likely never be able to spend on a gaming PC, and frankly, I wouldn't advise most people do so. However, whilst updating our best gaming PC guide, I was hit with the realisation that, for what you're paying, this actually isn't ludicrous. The horror, I know. Though the RTX 5090 MSRP is technically $1,999, it's not been uncommon since launch to pay anywhere between $2,400 and $3,000. As a result, we've been lucky to spot RTX 5090 rigs under $4,500 (though there is a pretty good $4,200 Cobratype deal on right now). This is why, for $5,300 with an RTX 5090, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 64 GB of RAM, and 2 TB of storage, Alienware have packed a beast of a PC into the Area-51 desktop we tested recently. Though you'd expect as such, we saw monstrous scores in games, like an average fps of 256 in Cyberpunk 2077 on RT Medium and Quality Upscale. In Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, we saw it get up to an average of 142 fps on Ultra. These are very nice scores and fitting of its price point. The lack of an AMD option is disappointing, though. We saw the Corsair Vengeance A7500 (an RTX 5080 rig) outperform it in Baldur's Gate 3, thanks to AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs. The Ultra 9 285K is a Cinebench wonder, and a pretty great productivity chip, but it's a bit lacking in gaming. Our results still show quite a lot of power and good gaming performance, but the chip feels like a bottleneck in some games. As well as this, though the Area-51 was touted as an upgradable Alienware rig, that claim comes with an asterisk. The PSU choice limits the potential motherboard upgrades severely, which means it's likely that if you want to upgrade that motherboard, you will have to swap out the PSU too. We saw excellent rendering scores in the likes of Blender, and importantly, its thermals make it the coolest rig we've tested in some time. The fan layout is a bit peculiar, as they're all pointing inwards, and we saw a light improvement flipping them around, but it's a mighty cool rig either way. It's also absolutely massive. It's the kind of PC you walk up to and say, 'yeah, that probably cost you a pretty penny'. Well, in this case, it's 500,000 pennies. If you're on the lookout for a top-tier PC and have $5,000 lying around (that's a big if), then the Alienware Area 51 is actually a very good rig, even though, as always, we'd advise hanging on for a sale. Alienware rigs tend to get discounts frequently, so you probably shouldn't pay full price if you can stomach the wait. The quick list The best gaming PCs The best overall The best gaming PC should be a balance of many things—a plethora of excellent component choices, constructed well, at a good price. The HP Omen 35L ticks all those boxes, making for a tidily built machine with an excellent choice of powerful components for reasonable amounts of cash. Read more View Deal The best budget The Legion Tower 5i is a great budget gaming PC, with smartly chosen parts and a quiet and cool chassis that can deal with the components inside without fuss. It's also a decent base to build from in the future, too. Read more View Deal The best high-end A great pairing of GPU and CPU, plus great build quality, and cool and quiet performance, this Corsair rig performs excellently. It's also quite well priced for what you get. Read more View Deal The best compact Velocity Micro's diminutive Raptor ES40 has been around for a while now, but it's still a mighty capable design, and can be configured with the latest hardware. If you're after something small but powerful, this is it. Read more View Deal Best Alienware Calling this rig a Behemoth would be overselling Behemoths because this PC is massive and filled with the right parts to take advantage of the size. It's still an Alienware, complete with not quite upgradable enough parts, but it's a powerful and stylish rig. Read more View Deal The best mini PC This is PC Gamer, so the best mini PC needs to be able to do exactly that—and with the discrete RX 7600M XT inside it, the AtomMan G7 PT is absolutely capable of delivering on that front. Its eight-core, 16-thread Zen 4 chip is also equally capable of any productivity goodness, too. Read more View Deal
Digital Trends
30-07-2025
- Digital Trends
This was the perfect time for AMD to make a flagship GPU
AMD has certainly made some of the best graphics cards of this generation with RDNA 4. That's not an opinion — that's a fact. However, this is also the generation when Team Red decided to keep things accessible to the mainstream gamer, meaning that it didn't even try to compete against Nvidia's RTX 5090. I understand why AMD chose to stick to the mainstream market this time around. But, knowing what I know now, I really wish that it took the leap of faith and made a flagship GPU this time around. The RTX 5090 was the perfect target Going into this generation of GPUs, the RTX 5090 seemed like a tough target to beat. We saw the kind of gains Nvidia was able to deliver going from the RTX 3090 to the RTX 4090 — the newer card was up to 89% faster. Many expected Nvidia to do the impossible and deliver a similar performance uplift with the RTX 5090. Recommended Videos Unfortunately, it didn't. In our review of the RTX 5090, we noted that it was fast, but not twice as fast as the RTX 4090. The gains were there, don't get me wrong, but they were far from as unattainable as what we saw in the previous generation. Take a look at our benchmark of the RTX 5090. This is based on our test suite of 13 games played at 4K. In this benchmark, the RTX 5090 basically doubles the performance of AMD's last-gen RX 7900 XTX, which was its halo card at the time. The RX 9070 XT, AMD's current-gen top GPU, can't outperform the RX 7900 XTX. But, let's assume that AMD did make the RX 9090 XT, or XTX, and it tried to target Nvidia this time around. Doubling the performance from the previous generation is no easy feat, but even if we assume that never happened, it'd still be competitive. It'd be a 'shoot for the moon, land among the stars' type of thing, where AMD might not have the firepower to obliterate the RTX 5090, but it could offer a reasonable alternative. Then, there's the RTX 5080. Many hoped that the RTX 5080 would beat Nvidia's RTX 4090 at a much more affordable price point. That never happened, though. Our benchmarks show that Nvidia's RTX 5080 trails behind the last-gen flagship. Moreover, it doesn't offer that much of an uplift over its predecessor, the RTX 4080 Super. There's also a pretty wide gap between the RTX 5090, which averages 119 frames per second (fps) in our test suite, and the RTX 5080, which hits close to 84 fps. That wide gap is where the (theoretical, mind you) RX 9090 XTX could've landed. And it would've fit perfectly, too. AMD didn't need to beat Nvidia Comparing GPUs is never an easy feat. We have to take rasterization, ray tracing, upscaling, pricing, and all sorts of other things into account — and even if AMD made a flagship GPU, chances are that it wouldn't have destroyed Nvidia on every single point. That's fine. It didn't need to. It'd just have been nice for it to provide an alternative for that in-between segment — the gap between the RTX 5090 and the RTX 5080. AMD itself says that most gamers want mainstream cards, and it's definitely not wrong. There's an argument to be made about the point of enthusiast GPUs and how many of us truly need them. Regardless, though, many people want to own one, and there'd definitely be interest if AMD delivered one in this generation, where the gains in the enthusiast segment weren't as impressive as before. This generation offered AMD the unique opportunity to beat Nvidia without needing to outperform it. The RX 9090 XT would have to be carefully priced, of course, but I imagine it'd have been well-received. Just look at the success of the RX 9070 XT — the card is universally praised. The elephant in the room There's an elephant in the room, though. I'm talking about the recommended list price (MSRP). I love the RX 9070 XT, but I struggle to recommend it in the current climate, all because it's hardly ever available at MSRP. This problem isn't unique to AMD — the same can be said of Nvidia, and even Intel, which made the one GPU I keep telling people to buy. Considering that the RX 9070 XT still hasn't dropped back down to its MSRP months after launch, I can imagine a world where the RX 9090 XT would be faced with the same problem. A card that outperforms the RTX 5080 would need to be affordable to bring in enthusiasts. Those are the gamers who usually don't mind spending an extra $200 to get something objectively better, so undercutting would be the name of the game here. But with neither GPU selling at MSRP, we might be stuck in the same limbo as we are now, except with more options available to us. It's a tricky situation. Ultimately, AMD doesn't seem to have any plans to launch an RX 9080 XT or an RX 9090 XT (although who knows what the future brings). This is just speculation with a dash of wishful thinking on my part. The bottom line here is that the stars have aligned, and this was the right time for that impressive AMD flagship to happen. I wish it had, but I am happy with the RX 9070 XT for everything it delivers. Now, my hopes and dreams are centered on RDNA 5, which is said to — once again — aim high.
Mint
28-07-2025
- Mint
5 RTX 50 series gaming laptops to grab during Amazon Great Freedom Festival Sale
The Amazon Great Freedom Festival sale kicks off July 31, and if you've been holding out for a next-gen gaming laptop, this is the window to strike. Nvidia's RTX 50 series is finally showing up in India, bringing serious performance, AI features, and future-proof specs. From esports and AAA gaming to content creation, these 5 laptops pack serious heat, and they're worth every click. This one's a monster. With the top-end RTX 5090 GPU, 64 GB DDR5 RAM, and Intel's Ultra 9 275HX chip, it's overkill in the best way. Expect buttery 240Hz gameplay on its WQXGA 16-inch panel and enough thermal management to keep things chill. If you're building a gaming/editing beast, this is the alpha pick. Same design, lighter load. The RTX 5080 version offers insane performance for a slightly lower price. You still get a 240Hz display, a generous 32 GB of RAM, and all the perks of HP's Omen software and AI chops. Ideal for creators and gamers who want premium without going all-in on 5090. ASUS brings its signature RGB swagger here, with a 12 GB RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 140W TGP, and a snappy 240Hz QHD+ screen. The metal chassis is sleek, and the 32 GB RAM combo means zero stutter during high-load sessions. Great pick for streamers and competitive gamers. This is the most balanced option of the lot. The RTX 5060 (115W) paired with Intel Ultra 9 still delivers strong 1440p performance. You get 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, and the same design and display perks as the pricier version—making it perfect for aspiring pros on a tighter budget. Entry-level RTX 50 performance with a 13th Gen i7? Yes, please. The Victus packs an 8 GB RTX 5050, 144Hz display, and upgradeable RAM up to 24 GB. It's not flashy, but it's a smart pick for students and casual gamers looking for a future-ready setup under ₹ 1 lakh. From full-blown powerhouses to mid-range monsters, the RTX 50 laptop wave has arrived—and Amazon's Freedom Festival is your shot at early deals. Keep your eyes on launch prices, bank offers, and early bird discounts starting July 31.
Digital Trends
27-07-2025
- Digital Trends
Asus reveals RTX 50 series GPU power specs for 2025 ROG and TUF gaming laptops
Asus has published the complete GPU power specifications for its 2025 ROG and TUF gaming laptops, offering clarity on the exact TGP (Total Graphics Power) configurations for the latest Nvidia RTX 50 series mobile GPUs. This move provides much-needed transparency for consumers, who often struggle to determine GPU wattages due to inconsistent or hidden specs across the laptop industry. The detailed list, available on Asus' official website, covers all RTX 50-series mobile GPUs across a wide range of gaming laptop models. RTX 5090 Mobile: 100W – 175W RTX 5080 Mobile: 100W – 175W RTX 5070 Ti Mobile: 100W – 175W RTX 5070 Mobile: 75W – 115W RTX 5060 Mobile: 75W – 115W RTX 5050 Mobile: 75W – 115W Recommended Videos According to the company, all 2025 ROG Strix Scar laptops equipped with the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti will be capable of running these GPUs at their maximum TGPs. On the other hand, the TUF Gaming models like the TUF A18 and TUF A16 will feature slightly more conservative configurations, with the RTX 5070 and the RTX 5060 at up to 115W. The slimmer Zephyrus G14, known for its ultraportable design, will offer the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti at 120W, while the rest of the GPUs will be capped at 100W. This reflects the thermal and power constraints of its thin chassis. Asus has shared these power figures model-by-model to give buyers a clearer idea of the performance they can expect. For instance, the ROG Strix Scar 18 with the RTX 5080 runs the chip at 175W, while the Zephyrus G14 caps the RTX 5080 at 120W to maintain thermals. While both laptops offer the same GPU, the difference in power would result in a significant difference in terms of performance. This public disclosure comes in response to growing consumer demand for transparency in GPU power ratings. Since Nvidia's 30- and 40-series mobile GPUs began allowing a wide TGP range with no strict branding distinction, buyers have had to rely on third-party reviews or hidden spec sheets to know what level of performance to expect. By sharing this information upfront, Asus seems to be giving buyers the tools to make informed decisions, especially as GPU power limits can significantly impact gaming performance, cooling, and battery life.
