RTX 5090 runs 2°C hotter with thermal paste than liquid metal — Arctic MX-6 vs. stock LM tested

RTX 5090 runs 2°C hotter with thermal paste than liquid metal — Arctic MX-6 vs. stock LM tested

An RTX 5090 Founders Edition card was benchmarked with thermal paste, featuring a mere 2-degree temperature difference compared to the card's out-of-the-box liquid metal TIM.

The data from the reviews on the RTX 5090 of NVIDIA are leaving many headlines and shocking numbers that must be taken into account. Today we have one of them, in particular, about energy consumption, which, as we saw, is really high, but it is not the real detail to take into account. Sustained consumption always hides other more interesting data, such as energy peaks at different times, and there the RTX 5090 destroys, in negative, everything …

GeForce RTX 5090 Power Excursions Tested: Can Spike to 901W Under 1ms

Igor's Lab conducted an in-depth analysis of the power management system of the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card, including the way the card draws peak power within the tolerances of the ATX 3.1 specification. This analysis should prove particularly useful for those still on older ATX v2.51 PSUs, and plan to use the included power adapter that converts four 8-pin PCIe power connectors to a 12V2x6. Igor's peak power analysis shows that t…