Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 is the undisputed strongest client graphics card, however which 5090 is the most effective one? By way of worth, the reply is the most affordable one you’ll find – most likely the Founders Version at a steep $2000 – however what for those who’re prepared to spend much more and wish completely top-tier efficiency?
In that fortunate situation, MSI places ahead the water-cooled RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid SOC. With a nominal value of $2500, it is (at the least) 25 % above MSRP, so how a lot further efficiency do you unlock out of the field with this ultra-premium providing? Are there are any extra advantages by way of thermals, noise and overclocking potential? And what’s it like constructing a PC with an additional 360mm radiator to cope with?
To search out out, we have run the Suprim Liquid by means of a portion of our common battery of gaming benchmarks, taking a look at RT and raster efficiency throughout a variety of resolutions in essentially the most demanding scenes from current video games. We have examined with the default “silent” profile and the higher-clocked “gaming” profile, and in contrast these outcomes with that of the unique 5090 Founders Version. We have additionally received some overclocked outcomes for comparability, that includes a small core clock enhance and a extra sizeable bump to reminiscence bandwidth, on the penultimate web page.
Earlier than we get into the benchmark outcomes, let’s cowl off the bodily design of the cardboard itself and our efficiency expectations based mostly on its specs.
In contrast to the surprisingly compact Founders Version card, the Suprim Liquid is a little bit of a beast – although that is principally right down to the truth that it comes with a 360mm radiator completely hooked up by two 450mm tubes. The GPU itself is a dual-slot design just like the FE, making it comparatively simple to put in, however at 280x148x51mm it is nonetheless sizeable – and naturally having that 360mm radiator, measuring 394x121x55mm, implies that just about all SFF circumstances will not be ample. The cardboard itself weighs just below 3.0kg, whereas the entire bundle is just below 4.3kg – fairly substantial.
The Liquid Suprim makes use of 575W in silent mode and maxes out the 600W 12V-2×6 energy cable in its gaming mode, with mode choice occurring through a bodily swap on the board. Energy may be delivered instantly through appropriate ATX 3.0+ PSUs or related to 4 8-pin PCIe cables utilizing the adapter supplied. This is not angled as it’s on the FE card to forestall undue pressure on the cable, however the revised connector ought to forestall the charring we skilled on one RTX 4090 FE unit. In addition to the standard HDMI 2.1 port, there are three DisplayPort 2.1b ports, permitting for appropriate 4K 240Hz HDR shows to be related with out the necessity for DSC (show stream compression) or 4K 480Hz with DSC.
| Mannequin | MSI 5090 LS | Nvidia 5090 FE | RTX 5080 | RTX 5070 Ti | RTX 5070 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU | GB202 | GB202 | GB203 | GB203 | GB205 |
| Cores | 21760 | 21760 | 10752 | 8960 | 6144 |
| Enhance clock | 2.58GHz | 2.41GHz | 2.62GHz | 2.45GHz | 2.51GHz |
| Mem bandwidth | 1792GB/s | 1792GB/s | 960GB/s | 896GB/s | 672GB/s |
| TGP | 600W | 575W | 360W | 300W | 250W |
| Prompt PSU | 1000W | 1000W | 850W | 750W | 650W |
| Value | $2499/£2649 | $1999/£1939 | $999/£979 | $749/£729 | $549/£539 |
Trying on the specs, we’re taking a look at a most of a seven % enhance to core clocks with gaming mode enabled, or a nonetheless affordable 4 % in silent mode. No reminiscence overclock is included right here, however as talked about earlier the gaming mode additionally bumps up energy from 575W to the utmost 600W doable to ship through the 16-pin connector. We’ll take a look at overclocking later on this piece.
For all of our outcomes, we’re utilizing a top-end system based mostly across the quickest gaming CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, to shift the burden to the graphics card as a lot as doable. We even have 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 CL30 reminiscence, a high-end ASRock X670E Taichi motherboard and a 1000W Corsair PSU.
With all that mentioned, let’s get into the benchmarks.
MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Liquid Suprim Evaluation
- Introduction [this page]
- RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, A Plague Story: Requiem, Hitman: World of Assassination
- RT benchmarks: F1 24, Dying Gentle 2, Cyberpunk 2077
- Recreation benchmarks: Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, F1 24, Cyberpunk 2077
- Recreation benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, A Plague Story: Requiem, Hitman: World of Assassination
- OC benchmarks: Dying Gentle 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Forza Horizon 5
- Conclusions, construct notes and proposals
