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50 Series Partner Cards Showcase

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Here's a look at what the Nvidia partners are bringing to market. I will update as more SKUs get revealed. Which model is your favourite so far?

Nvidia FE


Asus Astral



Asus Astral LC


Asus Rog Strix

Asus Tuf

Asus Prime

MSI Vanguard


MSI Suprim


MSI Gaming Trio


MSI Ventus


MSI Inspire
 
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Palit Gaming Pro


Palit Gamerock


Palit Master Series

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Gigabyte Xtreme Waterforce 32G

Gigabyte Xtreme Waterforce WB

Gigabyte Aorus Master


Gigabyte Aorus Master Ice

Gigabyte Gaming OC


Gigabyte Windforce
 
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Top ones are the FE, Asus Astral, MSI Vanguard/Suprim/Trio/Inspire and the Zotac Infinity IMO.

There's going to be some tough choices to be made. Zotac most improved visually IMO, the Flip-Flop Sandel has gone. MSI Inspire feels like an answer to Asus's Pro Art line.
 
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I don't know why Gigabyte insist on that awful flashing RGB. Suprim looks more plain (worse) this year, possibly to make room for the Inspire and Vanguard.
 
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TrojanWhore said:
FE by a mile, plus putting the main PCB in the middle and having through-flow on both sides seems like a great idea.

Of the AIB designs, I have to say I quite like the Asus Prime model - very understated and clean looking (I'm not a huge fan of the 'RGB all the things' trends of the last few gens :D )
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Yeah I agree about the FE being the best. I just hope we can change the lighting colour this time. Also its the only card I can see with a angled 12 pin socket. It looks to me like the wire might cover the led logo?

When I've looked into it on some of the ones I've liked at first glance and there's some really odd decisions colour wise. On the Trio for example a big what looks permeant Pastel Dragon, on the Zotac heavy company RGB branding and on the TUF a painted yellow logo.

For me FE 1st, then Astral, then Vanguard, then Prime. I need to see more photos of the MSI Inspire to judge fairly though.
 
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TrojanWhore said:
As long as the lighting is white, I wouldn't be too put off by the lighting, but ymmv - I'm not fond of the green on my 780ti in my 'server' PC, luckily it's stuffed away in a bedside table so I don't see it much!
And yes, I think the cable will mostly obscure it if routed in a nice way.

Hadn't noticed the pastel dragon on the trio backplate. The TUF logo is pretty much the same as the 4x series design, but again not ideal.
I really like my 7900XT pulse design for the most part, but wish they'd done the graphics in white or grey, rather than having a red 'heartbeat' line across the backplate :(
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Yeah any colours should ideally be largely neutral (though I didn't mind the red and blue on the underside of the 4090 Strix). The cable on the FE is probably to allow more clearance in small form factor builds, but it will be a touch harder to make look good maybe.
 
Gerard said:
Asus pricing should he good for a laugh, they had by far the most expensive 40 series card with that water-cooled 4090. 2k for the 5090FE so I'd guess around 2400-2500 for their 5090 astral.
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Yeah it's a shame the Asus cards look great, but the Asus tax just isn't worth hundreds extra.

Worth noting MSI and ASUS fans are a notch above everyone else's, pretty much silent 99% of the time.
 
t2na said:
Ideal for SFF cases where the GPU is vertically mounted most of the time but yeah, looks a bit odd in more traditional cases.
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Linus and PC World are singing the praises of the angled connector on the fe.

This is like staring at a abstract piece of art... I can't decide if I like that element or not.
 
Ascendancy said:
Yeah what's with the Geforce RTX text just slapped on there? They could have used all that room for another RGB dragon :mad:

From a design standpoint it's good, as people with smaller cases won't mangle their connector putting the side of their case back on. But I think it looks odd.
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Is the Dragon actually LED? If so all is forgiven. Will match my motherboard perfectly.
 
Noxia said:
I'd only want the Suprim based on how ***** the other 4090s I tried were in terms of fan noise from other vendors (Gigabyte, Asus, Phantom something). It won't fit in my O11D Evo though on the mounting bracket lol.
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I think it looks a bit plain this time round, especially the back. I think the Vanguard is where they have gone for a more premium design.

All MSI cards apart from the Ventus have the excellent Torx fans though.
 
Noxia said:
I don't care how it looks, I just want it to be as quiet as the Suprim X is, and I'm not fannying about with watercooling for something I'll only keep for a couple of years (and still needs fans anyway). Mind you, I guess my 4090 will be at least 4yrs old when I replace it.
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Any Asus or MSI is the best bet then. Of course coil whine is completely unpredictable, but I wont go there!
 
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