MSI's GPU team shows us the future, and it includes bringing back the Cyclone

At Computex 2025, MSI gave us a quick tour of its GPU Vision display, which showcased a selection of graphics card and cooler designs that its team is developing. From the new flagship RTX 5090 SUPRIM TITANIUM EDITION, which features a gold-colored exterior made from lightweight titanium, to the return of the classic open-air Cyclone design, now for the GeForce RTX 5070.

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MSI also showed us another blast from the distant GPU past, with a new RTX 5060 Ti 16GB TWIN FROZR 2025 that captures the look of this classic GeForce GPU. As we're talking about more fabulous designs from an era when graphics cards were nowhere near as powerful, complex, and power-hungry as they are in 2025, naturally, MSI had to reengineer the thermal designs to accommodate the GeForce RTX 50 Series.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G TWIN FROZR 2025 OC includes shifting to a copper-aluminum composite material for the fins, as the traditional all-aluminum solution simply wouldn't work. Also, there's now a nickel-plated copper baseplate for heat transfer and MSI's new STORMFORCE fans. It's retro, sure, but it's also stylish and impressive.

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The same goes for the GeForce RTX 5070 12G CYCLONE VISUAL OC, which sees MSI go all out to bring back a design that is now 20 years old. It's got a custom fan designed for increased airflow and air pressure, a more robust and solid backplate, an "abundance" of thermal pads, and a custom PCB with "hardened circuits" and "optimized trace routing." Oh, and the 'Visual' side of the re-design means that MSI has also managed to put a display in the center of the large fan.

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Although I'm a big fan of all things retro, MSI's GPU team hasn't suddenly become obsessed with resurrecting GPU designs from 10 or 20 years ago - it's also looking to the future. The flagship GeForce RTX 5090, drawing 600W of power, set a new precedent for PC gaming cards.

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And with that, MSI is redefining how Vapor Chamber cooling will work for the GeForce RTX 60 Series with its latest 'Radial Sintered Structure Vapor Chamber.' The unique design will improve heat dissipation for MSI GPUs with vapor chamber cooling, with MSI noting that it leads to a GPU temperature reduction of around 6 Degrees. Impressive stuff.

If you're wondering when we'll see these new designs, there are no firm plans for release, as MSI is currently gauging interest.