Among all the tech spec announcements for the next-generation Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, allow me to be shallow for a second—the RTX 5090 in particular is gosh darn good-looking, and I think we should all step back for a second and admire it.
I’ll let the images do the talking before I wax lyrical. Admit it, this is a mean-looking bit of PC hardware:
Okay, I would have been awake for too long, and the jetlag in the mixture with all Las Vegas neon lighting accessories can distort my brain’s pieces. But it is a strong design, with small lovely touches that I like.
Look at that angled power connector. The subtle shroud. The restrained yet menacing design notes. Cor, phwoar, and… fine, I’ll dial it back a little. Really though, what’s almost more impressive here is the size. It’s still a serious slab of silicon, plastic, and metal—but I can’t be the only one surprised that it looks a little smaller than the RTX 4090 it replaces.
Difficult to tell, I know. But I had visions in my head at various points of an absolute cinder block of a GPU, and what we’ve ended up with looks a lot smaller than that. I was holding an RTX 4090 FE in my hands just the other day, and thinking to myself that the design does seem to have aged a little, now we have all-black, super-sleek designs like the RTX 4080 Super.
Nvidia turns out to depend on this aesthetic with the new cards, and I am here for that. Although Nighthawk F-117 Aesthetics of RTX 4080 Super is not completely achieved, there are touches that echo.
Of course, AIB cards will still feature some horrific shroud designs. That’s for sure. I’m certain we’ll get some three fan monoliths that look like they come from a different era of PC hardware design from various manufacturers.
But the founder Cards Edition RTX-Series 50? I like. I know it is a bad way to judge an internal component in the appearance alone, but it was a sweat design competition, I would say that the new letters are among the lovely maxims that I have noticed to date. Now, I am going to sleep, because I am very evident in adequate GPU ads after months of rumor and hypothesis policies with a hyper critical eye.
The new Nvidia cards are here, and look good. That will do me for tonight.
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Andy built his first PC game at the age of 12, when IDE cables were one thing and the superior solution was not. After spending more than 15 years in the production industry overseeing a variety of live and recorded projects, he began writing his own PC Aparatus blog in hopes that other people might be able to send him stuff. And they did! Now operating as a PC Gamer device, Andy jumped international through product launches and salons, while examining every PC curtain he can get his hands on. You call him, if it’s an attractive curtain, he’ll write words, with reviews and all.
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