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Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Yahoo
Galax's Record-Breaking HOF RTX 5090D Graphics Card Will Get a Public Release After All
Nvidia board partner Galax has announced that its record-breaking Hall of Fame RTX 5090D graphics card will get a public release. Although it's likely to be a Chinese-only launch, the RTX 5090D HOF OC Lab XOC Edition GPU will be available to general enthusiasts, not just Galax partner overclockers. No word on pricing or release date yet, but we do have a swanky promo image. The RTX 5090 is the most powerful graphics card in the world, so some Nvidia board partners have modified the design to make it even more so to claim the top spot on the leaderboards as the fastest graphics card in the world. It turns out, though, that the fastest card isn't the 5090, but the 5090D—a Chinese-specific version of the card with cut-down AI performance. Galax modified the card with a second 16-pin power connector and enhanced BIOS with many limits removed, letting its special HOF version steal the top spot earlier this year. At the time of writing, several other overclockers have pushed the record for certain 3DMark benchmarks even higher with RTX 5090s, but the 5090D is still the fastest card in Fire Strike Extreme and Vantage Extreme, as well as holding second-place spots in Time Spy Extreme and Port Royal. Most of them were achieved with the Galax HOF OC Lab version of the 5090D, and now that XOC version will be more widely available. Albeit, probably only in China to start with. But fans of this card will no doubt push to have it shipped elsewhere. Credit: Galax/VideoCardz The board Galax shipped out to overclockers came without a cooler because it knew they would fit it with custom liquid-nitrogen pots anyhow. For the consumer release, though, this specialized card will come with a three-fan air cooler, but will maintain the dual 16-pin power connectors. The shroud will have a white design and RGB lighting. As VideoCardz points out, the cards might technically ship with a maximum 600W BIOS, as due to Nvidia stipulations, that's the maximum power limit the card can support. However, the point of a card like this is to push the limits, and twin 16-pin power connectors give this card scope for over a kilowatt of power if it needed it. Somehow, this card will end up with a BIOS that unlocks its full potential. No word from Galax yet about release date or pricing, but expect this card to go for a lot. More typical RTX 5090s with small overclocks and advanced cooling are going for close to $3,000 in some cases, so this one could sell for even more.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A clearly Korea-sourced Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been spotted for sale on an online Chinese marketplace. Korean PC tech fan @Harukaze5719 highlighted the listing and seemed exasperated by its presence. Perhaps the 'OMG' was due to the difficulty in obtaining one of these new Nvidia graphics cards in South Korea. We are pretty sure this Korean product in the China marketplace won't be an isolated case. Earlier in the week we saw comments that some of the chaotic crowd at the PC Studio Akihabara store had visited from China. Moreover, Taiwan's computer stores were similarly targeted by folk who had flown in from China for the RTX 50 release day. Above you can see the headlining Chinese reseller listing, featuring a Zotac-branded GeForce RTX 5090 Solid OC graphics card. A yellow and black sticker on the box highlights the three-year warranty and other details in Korean text. We have no way of knowing how the China marketplace seller got hold of this RTX 5090 – a SKU that isn't available in China, where the RTX 5090D is the halo product. We can only speculate that the seller recently traveled to South Korea (or knows someone who did) for a shopping trip. You might also be interested to know that the Chinese Yuan asking price is equivalent to approximately US$4,175 at the current exchange rate. Nevertheless, this card may have already been sold... Evidence that Chinese citizens visited Taiwan's computer malls to pick up some freshly launched Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 graphics cards seems much stronger. On Friday, January 31, Taiwan's SET News channel reported from the long queues outside a computer mall in the high-tech country. Some people had waited for days, with beds and chairs in evidence outside. In Taiwan, RTX 5090 retail pricing ranges from approx NT72,000 to NT$90,000 (from approx US$2,200 including tax). However, the buyers from China talked about sellers on the mainland asking for the equivalent of NT$200,000 or more for an RTX 5090 card. Two Chinese visitors were interviewed in the above news clip, starting at 1.03mins. The first one said he arrived the day before and didn't want a cut-down RTX 5090D. The second visitor said he didn't want to pay China scalper prices (double or more), and thought he had a chance to get an RTX 5090 at retail price in Taiwan. The chances of buying an RTX 5090 on the night were pretty low, though. According to a map shared by SET (embedded below), Taipei and surrounding regions only had 20 RTX 5090 cards for the customers queuing up, with 30 more for pre-orders. Central and South-Western cities had even tighter supplies, with just four – yes four – cards available when the doors opened, and 30 available for pre-order. RTX 5080 cards were rather more plentiful, but still far from sufficient. In the intro, we mentioned another country that isn't very far from China, which may have had some graphics card tourists fly over recently. Suspicions that some of the unruly crowd at PC Studio's RTX 5090 and 5080 lotto event day in Akihabara, Tokyo were from China were raised on several social media platforms. Knowing that sites like X are prone to unaccountable troublesome trolls, we hope tech sites like IT Media, which wrote "the number of purchasers who seemed to be Chinese was flooded" (machine translation), have better sources.
