ASUS's new flagship ROG Matrix Platinum RTX 5090 has been delayed: late November for $4700+

ASUS promised to have its super-expensive new ROG Matrix Platinum GeForce RTX 5090 on the market by now, but it has been delayed -- just like GTA 6, unfortunately -- until late November, and will cost close to $5000.

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German retailer ProShop has the new ASUS ROG Matrix Platinum RTX 5090 graphics card listed for €4,099, which works out to around $4730 USD, with stock expected to arrive at the retailer on November 27, a few weeks away from now. The $4700+ pricing means that the ASUS ROG Matrix Platinum RTX 5090 is twice as expensive as NVIDIA's in-house RTX 5090 Founders Edition.

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ASUS has fully tricked out the ROG Matrix Platinum RTX 5090 however, with dual power inputs: one 12V-2x6 power connector that provides 600W, while compatible BTF motherboards like some of the flagship ASUS boards, use a hidden high-power slot that can draw up to 800W total, providing around 10% more performance for tweaking the card through overclocking.

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ASUS's new ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card features a three-ounce copper PCB layer, a full copper vapor chamber with headpipes, copper-aluminum fans, and a quad-fan cooling system. ASUS also uses liquid metal thermal compound for improved heat transfer, too.

ASUS will be adding a little bit more performance to the ROG Matrix RTX 5090 with GPU boost clocks of up to 2730MHz, and an 800W power limit that's provided by the 12V-2x6 power connector and in-house GC-HPWR slot on an ASUS BTF motherboard. If you use just one of the connectors, the card drops down to a 600W power limit.

ASUS is also adding new monitoring features into its in-house GPU Tweak III software, with Power Detector+ tracking each of the six power pins individually, while Level Sense will alert users of the new ROG Matrix RTX 5090 if their GPU sags based on custom thresholds.

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The company is only making 1000 of its flagship ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards, so we should only see a handful of these on the market, as they'll be scooped up by collectors and enthusiasts.