ASUS has brought a few announcements for the Gamescom week, and the biggest one is possibly this special edition GPU bearing the uber-enthusiast ‘ROG Matrix’ nameplate. This 30th anniversary special carries a distinct design with support for a whopping 800 watts of TGP, so there is a legitimate reason to buy one if you want the most powerful GPU available today (if you can find one, that is).
ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090
The official name of this GPU is ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 – ASUS Graphics Cards 30th Anniversary Edition, and the most obvious change you’ll see on this GPU is the rounded end of the shroud paying homage to one of the first GPUs carrying the Matrix nameplate, the ASUS ROG EN9800GT Matrix launched 17 years ago. Unlike the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT card though, this new design has four cooling fans, in a setup similar to ROG Astral GPUs, accompanied by an infinity mirror RGB located at the far side of the card.
ASUS has also given this ROG Matrix card a maximum power limit of 800 watts, despite having just a single 12V-2×6 connector on it (which supplies 600W max). Before you panic too much, there is another way for the card to pull additional power – the GPU comes with a detachable “BTF” (HPCE) connector that draws extra power through compatible motherboards, which was previously reported to be capable of pulling 1000 watts on its own.
On the cooling side, while the fans themselves look more or less than same as the ROG Astrals, the rest got upgrades: liquid metal interface, patented vapor chamber, and 10% more heatsink surface area to cope with additional heat this card will be generating. All told, this allows the GPU to run at 2730MHz boost clock – 150MHz more than stock, and that ASUS claims this card will run 10% faster than standard RTX 5090s.
Want one? There will only be 1,000 units made in the entire world, so getting one will be quite difficult from the get go. While ASUS didn’t announce the price, expect local pricing well into five figures if it ever lands in our shores.
Pokdepinion: Now that is a properly powerful card.
