Gaming: Msi's $5,000+ Lightning Z Rtx 5090 Has Seen Real-world Tests And...
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MSI's Lighting Z RTX 5090 is seemingly very impressive. With AIO liquid cooling and a huge screen, MSI says it is "Built to sustain 1000W loads with absolute stability." I wouldn't know personally, as I'm a mere mortal and not one of the 1,300 lucky enough to spend over $5,000 on one. However, we have seen some testing, and MSI weren't lying about that power draw. It's a thirsty beast.
KitGuruTech managed to get their hands on it, and in gaming tests, they saw a max pull of 1076 W in Cyberpunk 2077 when overclocked. The rig they have popped that monstrously powerful card in has an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, an MSI X870 Carbon motherboard, plus 64 GB of DDR5 memory, and an MSI MPG 1600 W power supply.
It's worth noting that KitGuru runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K with RT overdrive and no DLSS, which is "all designed to put maximum load on the GPU." Though Cyberpunk's max is 1076 W, the average sits around the mid 700s, which is still about 120 W above what our gaming tests got for the RTX 5090 Founders Edition.
Source: PC Gamer
