Images have been circulating online claiming to show Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition cooler and as you'd expect, they show an enormous cooler with huge heatsink and a pair of massive fans. The massive four-slot cooler images surfaced recently ahead of an expected announcement for Nvidia's RTX 5000-series later this, but they're not what they appear to be.
Further weight is added to that conclusion given that the shroud for the heatsink in the new post looks identical to those used in the original RTX 4000-series graphics cards, with newer Super models such as the RTX 4080 Super, using a newer black design.identical to the now generation-old RTX 40 series, with Nvidia having moved to black with the RTX 40 Super seriesBelow you can see the cooler shroud listed in the original set of images leaked last year year.
Something that hasn't changed as far a we know is the 16-pin power connector. This has seen quite a few issues, especially with the RTX 4090, with connectors being shown to have melted due to the high power draw for that card especially.
AMD has continued to use the standard 8-pin connectors on its graphics cards and there's little to suggest this will change any time soon. It remains to be seen if Nvidia will alter the design of the power connector but it seems unlikely given it's now widely adopted in the latest power supplies that regularly offer native 600W PCIe 5 16-pin connectors and cables.
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